Food prices are rising world-wide for many reasons – two of which are the rise in crude oil prices and the demand for corn to produce ethanol, an alternative for gasoline.Emerging and less developed countries have seen a dramatic increase in food prices in the recent months. Food producers in emerging countries are an attractive …
For many years, ishares’s single country ETFs have dominated the ETF market for investing in one specific country. These ETFs tracked the main market index of the corresponding countries. They have been a huge success with funds such as EWG and EWA collecting assets of over $1.0B since launch. Due to the success of the …
There was an article in the “This is Money” site on May 8th about British bank stocks. The article basically suggested that maybe its time to cherry pick some of these battered banks.Experts seem to believe that the worst of the credit crunch is finally over and that good times are ahead for British banks. …
Some of the companies that used to be listed on the NYSE moved to the OTC market in the past few months. They moved their stock to the OTC due to the high regulatory requirements imposed on them by the SOX law and also the high listing fees ($50K+) by the NYSE. So these high …
Canadian ADR stocks such as BMO,BNS,TD,ECA,RY,CNI,CP,PCZ, etc. are popular among US investors.However there are some other ADRs that kinda trade under the radar. In this post lets look at three such ADRs: 1.TransCanada Corp – TRP Dividend Yield – 3.78% S&P; Rating – 3 stars Sector – utilities (Electricity and Natural Gas Pipelines) The 5 …