Currently the top U.S. tax rate on qualified dividends is 15%. This rate applies to tax-payers who are in the 25% to 35% tax brackets. This means that hypothetically an ordinary American in the 25% tax bracket having an earned income of $50,000 and getting a $1,000 in qualified dividends pays $150 in dividend taxes …
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The Coca-Cola Company trading under the ticker KO is different from the bottler Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc trading under the ticker CCE on the NYSE. As a multi-national company, Coca-Cola has bottlers in many countries of the world and each operate as an independent company and their stocks trade under separate tickers. In this post, lets take a …
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The Argentine stock market is depressed this year. Argentina’s Merval index is down 8.89% year-to-date(YTD) while Brazil’s Bovespa is up 1.4%, Chile’s IPSA is flat and Mexico’s IPC index has shot up 13.1%. The difference in performance between the Merval and the three other indices is much higher over the past 5 years. The five-year …
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The German economy is the largest economy in Europe. Last year the GDP reached 2.5 Trillion Euros. In the third quarter of this year the economy grew by a seasonally adjusted 0.2% relative to the previous quarter. In the third quarter, the total number of employed persons stood at 41.7 million and the provisional household …
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The Top 10 Colombian Banks for 2012 Based on Tier 1 Capital Ratio as of December 2011 are shown in the table below: Source: Top Latin American Banks by Country, The Banker BBVA Colombia is the subsidiary of Spanish banking group Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (BBVA) and Citibank Colombia is the subsidiary of the …
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