Magyar Telkom, the leading Hungarian telecommunications service provider became the latest European to delist its ADRs from the New York Stock Exchange. The ADR which used to trade under the ticker MTA was delisted as of November 11, 2010. Effective 11/12/20, the ADR will trade on the Level 1 category on the OTC markets with …
Americans pay billions of dollars in taxes each year to the Federal government. However when it comes to knowing how the government spends the taxes collected many people have misconceptions. From an recent article in The Wall Street Journal: “A recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that 40% thought foreign aid was one of the …
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The largest trade partners of South Korea in 2009 are shown in the graphic below. Interesting to note that China is the largest trade partner of S.Korea. Source: The Wall Street Journal Update: South Korea’s Trade with Main Partners (2011): Click to enlarge Source: trade.ec.europa.eu Related ETF: iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (EWY)
Investors have been attracted to emerging market equities for many years now due to their capital appreciation potential.Until recently not many emerging market stocks have been known for their dividends.However that paradigm is changing. Companies in developing countries are increasingly paying out a higher portion of their profits to investors in the form of dividends. …
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In the past few years Gold has become a much-talked about and safe-haven asset class. Investors have been piling into gold due to the credit crisis, collapse of equity markets, Greek debt crisis, continued devaluation of paper currencies and more recently the newly announced QE2 which will depreciate the value of the dollar further. As …
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