The banking sector has been one of the worst performing sectors due to the recent financial crisis. Many small U.S. banks have been shutdown and many more are on the verge of extinction. However there are a few winning small banks. One such bank is Prosperity Bancshares Inc.(PRSP) based in Houston, Texas. Prosperity’s performance vs. …
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Traditionally investors have preferred large cap companies in developed countries when it comes to investing for dividend income. This is because many of the large companies in Western Europe, Canada, the U.S. and other developed markets are established companies with defined dividend payout policies and have history of rewarding shareholders with cash in the form …
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Many foreign markets have performed better than the US market in the past decade. When investing in international stocks most investors tend to stick with large caps. However foreign small and micro caps offer better investment opportunities over their large cap peers. Six reasons to invest in foreign small and micro cap equities are listed …
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Mark Mobius, the executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management’s emerging markets group has said that another financial crisis is inevitable since the causes of the previous one haven’t been resolved. From a news report in the Financial Post: “There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner because we haven’t solved any …
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The United Nations (UN) warned of a crisis of confidence in the U.S. dollar should the weakening of the dollar continue and added that this would put the entire global financial system at risk. The U.S. dollar has continued its downward trend against other major currencies in the past decade as shown in the chart …
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