I ran the stock screener with the following conditions: Market Cap: >= $1B Dividend Yield : 7% or more The following are some of the Foreign ADRs that met the above criteria: 1.Company:Telecom Corp of New Zealand (NZTCY) Current Dividend Yield: 9.91% Sector: Telecom 2.Company: Cellcom Israel Ltd. (CEL) Current Dividend Yield: 9.69% Sector: Telecom …
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The fDi Magazine has published the Asian Cities of the Future 2009/10 list. Singapore tops the rankings followed by Tokyo and Shanghai. The selection methodology: “fDi Cities of the Future shortlists are created by the independent collection of data by fDi Benchmark across 133 Asia-Pacific cities. This information was set under six categories: economic potential, …
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The credit rating agency Standard & Poors downgraded Greece’s credit rating today.Last week Fitch downgraded Greece’s rating. Both the agencies cut the credit rating due to the country’s huge debts. The public debt of Greece stands at $442B and its public deficit is about 13% of GDP. In Debt Fears rattle Europe the Journal notes …
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The German economy is the largest in Europe and the country is home to many of the world’s top companies such as BMW, Siemens, Volkswagen, etc. German companies also hold the leadership position in the chemical industry. In order to identify the high dividend-paying German stocks I used the iShares DivDAX ETF (EXSB) which tracks …
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Is there a strong correlation between high economic growth and strong investment returns?. A recent study of economic growth in 14 industrialized countries by Orbis, the global asset management partner of investment management firm Allan Gray of South Africa, proves that there is very little correlation between growth in real dividends per share over the …
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