I wrote an article last week discussing about the strategy of investing in stocks during a crisis for great returns. This post is a follow up to that article but takes on the benefits of investing in equities for the very long-term. Very long-term can be defined as a time period measured in decades. …
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Bloomberg BusinessWeek recently published its annual ranking of the top 50 U.S. companies. From the article: The Bloomberg Businessweek 50 ranks companies on how well they’ve done and how well analysts expect them to do. Half of the ranking is based on past performance: their stocks’ risk-adjusted returns over one and five years. The other half is …
Why the free market fundamentalists think 2013 will be the best year ever (The Guardian) Fossil fuel subsidies: billions up in smoke? (OECD Insights) Why US winks at illegal migration (The Hindu Business Line) The 40 most unusual economic indicators (Financial Post) Gold stocks’ time to shine (Canadian Business) Fired America (Economic Populist) HSBC: Asia’s ‘worrying’ debt-led growth …
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Reinvestment of dividends can enhance the return of an equity investment. Instead of simply focusing on price returns only investors should focus on the total return of an investment which includes price return plus dividend reinvestment return. Over the past decade, UK’s FTSE 100 has consistently beaten the S&P 500. The FTSE 100 has had …
The U.S. unemployment rate stood at 7.9% in January this year. This rate has not changed much since September of 2012. Based on this official figure, currently there 12.3 million unemployed individuals in the country. The actual unemployment rate is much higher since the official rate drops out many unemployed persons such as those that …