Investors are attracted to HealthCare stocks during recessions as these healthcare companies perform better when compared to other companies in other industries. For example in 2008, the S&P 500 Index was down 38.49% but the healthcare components in the index were off only 24.48%. Consumer staples was the best performing group with a negative return …
A few years ago The Republic of Ireland had one of the fastest growing economies in Europe. Then growth slowed and in the past two years or so the Irish economy stagnated and growth came to a standstill. Irish stocks have been hit pretty hard as well in 2008 – especially the banks. As of …
One of the many indices published by STOXX is the “Dow Jones STOXX Global Dividend 100 Index”. This index “offers investors the ideal tool to track high-dividend-yielding companies in the Dow Jones STOXX Global 1800 Index, a broad yet liquid benchmark index that covers the Americas, Europe and Asia/Pacific”. The 100 stocks in this index …
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Recently I came across the following research paper on the importance of dividends published by Dow Jones back in 2004. ABSTRACT “Numerous trends are examined that suggest recent increased interest in dividend income from equities is likely to continue and perhaps increase further well into the future. Existing equity indexes are found to measure a …
Recently CanadianBusiness magazine of Canada published a list of the largest 500 US companies by revenue. Just for reference, I am listing the companies below: The Top 500 US Stocks: [TABLE=132] Source: CanadianBusiness Note: All data is as of June 6, 2008. To download the above list in Excel format for easy sorting and analysis, …