China Is Not Helping Its Manufacturers Western economies too weak for spending cuts, IMF warns Property Is it time to invest? China’s property bubble Mobius Says Demand for Housing in China Will Withstand Bank Lending Curbs Goldman Sachs only ran the casino  Address jobs now, deficits later 3 lessons for investing overseas Source: Reserve Bank …
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Telecom stocks can provide some stability and steady growth to a well-diversified portfolio. Some of them also offer high dividends which may be reinvested to increase the total return on an investment. Unlike consumer discretionary and other sectors, consumers in most countries consider telecommunication services such as mobile phone services as a necessity. Telecom companies …
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Global diversification is an integral strategy of a well-built portfolio.It is even more important to make sure that diversification is done right. Australia is classified as a developed economy and its main stock market index the Australian All Ordinaries Index is part of the MSCI World Index. In contrast South Africa is considered as an …
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Traditionally investors have been attracted to utilities and bank stocks their dividends and stable growth. However the past couple of years have shown that many of that financial stocks do not fall in that category any more. Despite the so-called recovery, some of the foreign banks have not resumed paying dividends.Since dividends come out of …
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The 50 Most Innovative Companies in the world for 2010 has been published by Bloomberg BusinessWeek in the latest issue. This year’s list is dominated by companies from Europe and Asia. Showing the rise of Asian emerging markets, for the first time 15 of the Top 50 are Asian and Greater China has as many …
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