****** UPDATE ****: For the 2021 tax rates go to: Dividend Withholding Tax Rates By Country 2021 One of the factors that investors need to consider when investing in foreign stocks is taxes since it reduces the effective rate of return on an investment. Governments of most countries try to recoup millions in taxes from dividends that …
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The table below lists large-cap foreign stocks trading on the NYSE that have dividend yields of over 5% as of January 6, 2011: [TABLE=870] Some observations: Not surprisingly, the majority of the stocks in this list are in the utility sector with Telefonica(TEF) of Spain paying about 8% in dividends. Bell Canada Enterprises(BCE) is the …
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Some foreign large-cap companies trade on the OTC market instead of the organized exchanges. Investors can find well-established companies paying high dividends on these markets. Though trading volumes may be thin, for the average buy-and-hold long-term investor this should not be an issue. To identify some of the high-yielding large cap foreign stocks, I ran …
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Most U.S. investors have low exposure to foreign stocks. Despite the rising importance of foreign countries in the global economy, many investors have the “home-bias” problem and continue to gravitate towards American companies. While it is true that a quarter of the revenues of the S&P 500 firms come from abroad, in order to gain …
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