The four largest “Too Big To Fail(TBTF)” U.S. banks Bank of America (BAC), JPMorgan Chase(JPM), Citigroup (C) and Wells Fargo(WFC) continue to remain as the largest banks in the country. These TBTF banks are also known as the superbanks. From a November, 2009 article titled Too-Big-To-Fail and the Theory of Large Numbers by Henry C.K. …
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U.S. stocks generally have lower dividend yields than foreign stocks. For example, the current yield of the S&P 500 is 2.14%. Compared to this many foreign markets have much higher yields. In 2009, U.S. stocks paid 1.93%. Among the large 20 countries by market capitalization only Russia, India and Korea had lower yields than the …
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The chart below shows the dividend yield across twenty country indices.These countries represent the largest countries based on market capitalization as of 12/31/2009: Click to Enlarge Source: Skloff Financial Group The dividend yield of U.S. stocks remained less than a paltry 2% since 2003. For the years shown, Australian stocks have consistently paid dividends in …
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The 25 most profitable publicly-listed American companies that appear in the Forbes Global 2000 list for 2010 are listed below: [TABLE=502] The oil giant ExxonMobil(XOM) made the highest profits at over $19B on sales of $275B. The second and third spots were taken by software maker Microsoft(MSFT) and the world’s largest retailer Wal-Mart Stores(WMT). Among …
The ten most profitable publicly-listed British companies that made it to the Forbes Global 2000 list for 2010 are listed below. [TABLE=500] All the firms noted above are also part of the FTSE 100 index. The oil giant BP plc (BP) is the most profitable British company. The current yield on the BP ADR is …
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