Nick Ford, head of US equities at Miton of UK recently wrote an interesting article in Trustnet outlining his thesis for finding investment opportunities in the U.S. market regardless of the state of the direction of the U.S. market. From the article: Despite valid concerns about the ongoing resolution to the “fiscal cliff” and the …
Many U.S. companies are increasing share buybacks to goose up earnings. Buybacks of own shares is the preferred method for some companies to put unused cash to work. While theoretically buying back shares should reduce the number of outstanding shares and increase earnings per share it is not happening in the real world, according to an article …
The Ten Most Widely Held ADR stocks as of Jan 23, 2013 are listed below: Source: ADR.com UBS and Taiwan Semi are the top two widely held ADRs with each topping over 1 billion shares. Disclosure: No Positions
Of the hundreds of stocks trading on the OTC markets some attain the status of “OTCQX”. These stocks have met higher standards than the regular OTC-traded stocks and they are generally made of well established and solid companies. Current less than 400 stocks have the OTCQX status. Download: OTCQX Stocks List as of Dec 31 …
Two banks only have failed so far this year compared with many failures in 2012 and the years before. The number of bank failures has declined since the peak attained during the global financial crisis. In addition, many of the struggling banks have cleaned up their balanced sheets and raised capital in the years since. …