From August 4, 2008 E.ON’s ordinary stock listed in Germany started trading at a split adjusted basis of 3:1. This was done by the EON board since earlier it was trading for 100 EUR in Germany. In addition EON changed the ratio of the ADR share (EONGY) from 3 ADR shares to 1 to the …
Photo: Barcelona Palace, Spain When looking at stocks for good dividend yields,”Payout Ratio” is one of the many factors that have to evaluated. Payout ratio simply means the amount a company is paying out to investors in the form dividends from its earnings. High pay out ratio shows that the company wants to hand out …
Photo: Petrohue Falls and Mt. Osorno, Chile In this bear market, it is not easy to make money.One has to look outside of the box for opportunities. This means going to emerging markets. Many centuries ago, young men in Europe would go to East because thats where the riches were there. Nowadays its not necessarily …
The idea behind the title is that sometimes we don’t have to invest directly in order to invest in some specific sector/investment. It is kinda like investing indirectly in the sector you want. In this post lets review a few such strategies. 1.Commodity Instead of investing directly in commodity stocks like oil,mining, etc. it may …
When you look at whats happening all around us it feels like we are in a recession here in the US. William Engdahl of Asia Times has an written article today titled “Henry Paulson has lost control“. In this piece he writes about the current state of the economy and ridicules Henry’s assertion that “our …