Traditionally investors have been attracted to utilities and bank stocks their dividends and stable growth. However the past couple of years have shown that many of that financial stocks do not fall in that category any more. Despite the so-called recovery, some of the foreign banks have not resumed paying dividends.Since dividends come out of …
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In the journal article “Sins of Past Guide Asian Banks“, Peter Stein notes that Asian banks are well capitalized than their U.K. and European peers. Singapore banks have higher equity Tier 1 ratios based on the proposed Basel 3 standards than Chinese and Indian banks. Australian banks are just a notch above European and British …
The following Savings & Loan association(S&L) accept savings deposits and make home and other loans. S&Ls must have 65% of their lending in mortgage and consumer loans. Due to this, they are highly vulnerable to the housing market. S&Ls with more than 4% dividend yields are shown below: [TABLE=357]
Unlike many other countries, there are thousands of small community banks in the U.S. These banks have a smaller foot print when compared to the regional or national banks such as Bank of America(BAC), Fifth Third Bank(FITB), U.S. Bank(USB), etc. However they are usually know their customers better and maintain close relationships with the local …
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