Investing in a foreign stock is not as easy as selecting a company and placing a buy order as one would with a US stock. After an investor has decided to invest in a foreign stock, there are usually three different options to trade the stock. For example, lets say an investors has decided to …
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When investing in foreign stocks one of the factors that investors should take into consideration is the tax treatment of dividends earned. To that end, earlier this year I wrote an article on Withholding Tax Rates by Country for Foreign Stock Dividends. Similar to other countries, the U.S. also has income tax treaties with many …
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The graphic below shows the top companies in the U.S. tire market: Click to enlarge Source: Continental Sells to Tire Salesmen in the U.S., Bloomberg BusinessWeek Goodyear, Michelin and Bridgestone sell about half of the replacement tires for U.S. passenger cars. Akron, Ohio-based The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co (GT) is the largest U.S. manufacturer …
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Pakistan is one of the long-term allies of the U.S. due to its strategic location in Asia. However the country is also a haven for all types of global terrorist outfits. So to be sure any type of investment in Pakistan is not for the faint-hearted. As a wild-west frontier market it is not an …
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One of the risks of investing in foreign stocks is the exchange-rate risk. For example, the movement of the domestic currency where the stock is listed against the US dollar can adversely or positively impact the return of that investment for US-based investors. A strengthening of the dollar reduces foreign stock returns to US investors …
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