The US Broad Dividend Achievers Index published by Mergent consists of 283 well established companies with consistent dividend payments in various sectors. Many of the financial stocks that performed poorly last year were eliminated from the index back in January during the annual reconstitution of the index. Currently 32 banks are represented in this index …
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The outstanding US public debt is over $11 Trillion and the interest payments alone total over $22B per month. The unemployment rate reached 10.2% in October. The number of unemployed persons now stands at 15.7 million. The true unofficial unemployment rate U6 is over 17%. While the federal government and the states have taken various …
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The UK has the largest number of companies listed in the US markets after Canada. Among the many British ADRs, some stocks are good picks for dividend income. To select the British ADRs that are excellent dividend payers I used the The International Dividend Achievers Index. Mergent created The International Dividend Achievers Index to track …
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Investors looking for consistent dividend-paying foreign stocks are attracted to Canadian equities. There are many Canada-based companies that pay decent dividends and have excellent dividend growth rates too. In order to identify some of the high dividend growth Canadian stocks we shall use the Canadian High Yield Dividend Growth 30 Portfolio Index created by Mergent, …
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The Top 10 Canadian Banks based on Assets held as of Dec, 2008 are listed below: [TABLE=230] Source: BankScope The largest Canadian bank based on assets is the Royal Bank of Canada (RY), which is also the most profitable among the big five banks. The second and third largest banks are TD Bank(TD) and Bank …
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