The table below lists the World’s Safest Banks 2011 in Asia as ranked by Global Finance magazine in a recent report: [TABLE=1037] Source: Global Finance Singapore banks DBS Group Holdings Ltd (DBSDY) and United Overseas Bank Ltd (UOVEY) have dividend yields of over 5% now. Disclosure: No positions
Brazilian stocks have been hit hard in recent months as investors have become increasingly worried about many economic factors including inflation, over-heating of the economy, commodity price volatility, buildup of a credit bubble, etc. Some of the reasons for this fear are well-founded as confirmed by the following data: Growth of credit in the last …
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The Weekend Investor section of The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article on dividend stocks. From the article: Mutual funds specializing in dividend stocks have seen inflows of $12.6 billion so far this year, four times as much as in all of 2010—even as stock funds as a whole have posted outflows of nearly …
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The Internet retailer Amazon is one of the survivors of the great dot-com bubble of the 1990s. Unlike other retail companies like pets.com that disappeared when the bubble burst, Amazon not only survived but has thrived ever since. As the retail industry is highly competitive and has one of the lowest profits margins, it takes …
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One of the main reasons to invest in foreign stocks is for portfolio diversification. In the past, the correlation U.S. markets and foreign markets were very low which lead to foreign stocks going higher when US stocks went down and vice versa. However in recent decades the benefits due to international diversification are declining. According …
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