When picking dividend stocks, in addition to an attractive dividend yield it is important to select stocks that have high annual dividend growth rate.These two factors will give a better picture about the stocks than going with just the yield alone. The following foreign stocks satisfy the two conditions: Dividend Yield = > 2% Average …
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An interesting chart from a presentation by Richard C. Koo, Chief Economist, Nomura Research Institute, Tokyo: Click to Enlarge Source: The Age of Balance Sheet Recessions: What Post-2008 U.S., Europe and China Can Learn from Japan 1990-2005 by Richard C. Koo, Nomura Research Institute
In this post lets take a look at some of the differences between China and USA. The chart below shows the comparison of government finances between the two countries. Click to enlarge Source: Der Speigel China has the world’s largest foreign currency reserves. Though the chart says it is $1.9T, the more recent figure was …
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From “The Numbers” section of the latest edition of Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Governments around the world haven been borrowing heavily in the past 10 years so much that the debt level has now more than doubled to $55 Trillion. CNBC has published a list of The World’s Biggest Debtor Nations based on the total outstanding external …
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The Bank Director magazine has published the results of the 2009 Bank Performance Scorecard which ranks the top 150 banks in the U.S. In an article titled “Home Run Hitters: Results of the 2009 Bank Performance Scorecard” the magazine noted: “In what’s been one of the toughest years in banking, institutions that played it fiscally …