Apple(APPL) has sold millions of its famous iPhone over the years with the most recent model iPhone 5 selling like hotcakes late last year although sales volumes was not as great as expected. In China, the company sold over 2 million units in the first weekend alone. The iPhone 5 was designed in the U.S. …
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Greek yogurt was introduced to the U.S. market 15 years ago by Fage, the Athens-based privately-held yogurt company according to a recent article in Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Since then Greek yogurt held a small share of the multi-billion dollar yogurt market in the country. However in the past few years that has changed with consumers buying Greek …
Diversification is an important factor to consider when investing in foreign stocks . An investor can diversify based on a specific theme or types of markets such as emerging, frontier, developed, etc. It is better to diversify between different markets and then different countries within those markets. It is not a wise idea to invest all the assets allocated for foreign stocks …
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The Price to Earnings(P/E) ratio is one measure to determine if a market or a stock is cheap of expensive. P/E ratios alone cannot be used as a deciding factor in investment selections. However it can be used in conjunction with other factors to identify potential investment opportunities and markets or stocks to avoid. The …
Investing in bank stocks is back in fashion as the industry recovers from the brutal effects of the global financial crisis of 2008-09. Slowly many of the banks are increasing dividends and are reporting higher lending. With hundreds of regional and community banks trading on the markets, selecting individual banks for investment is a complex …