Pakistan is one of the long-term allies of the U.S. due to its strategic location in Asia. However the country is also a haven for all types of global terrorist outfits. So to be sure any type of investment in Pakistan is not for the faint-hearted. As a wild-west frontier market it is not an …
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Mergent’s Indxis has created a Dividend Achievers Index for the UK. The index is weighted using a free float adjusted market capitalization and is reconstituted once a year.The index is composed of 99 British stocks. The components of the index are selected based on the following criteria: Companies must incorporated in the United Kingdom. Stocks …
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One of the risks of investing in foreign stocks is the exchange-rate risk. For example, the movement of the domestic currency where the stock is listed against the US dollar can adversely or positively impact the return of that investment for US-based investors. A strengthening of the dollar reduces foreign stock returns to US investors …
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Each year Forbes Asia publishes the best big companies in Asia under the title “Asia’s Fab 50”. The rankings are based on earnings, revenues and stock prices. For 1010, the magazine evaluated 936 Asian companies that had revenues or market capitalization of at least US $ 3.0 billion. The table below lists the top 50 …
China is one of the largest trading partner of the U.S. China’s global influence is growing and is projected to become a super-power in the future while the U.S. economic power declines. As the countries follow different political and economic systems, I wanted to compare some of the differences between these two large economies. The …