Argentina has taken center stage of global politics in recent weeks for all the wrong reasons. The country’s expropriation of the oil company YPF (YPF) from its Spanish parent Repsol (REPYY) has been met with widespread condemnation and retaliatory actions by Spain. In addition, already nervous foreign investors are further pulling their capital out of …
With one month to go in this year, I wanted to identify some foreign large cap ADRs that paid dividends of over 5%. So I ran the stock screener with the following criteria: 1. Stocks must trade on the NYSE 2. Market capitalization must be >= $50B 3. Stocks must have dividend yields of 5% …
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European equity markets have fallen heavily this year due to the ongoing debt crisis there. While most investors are avoiding European stocks some are wondering if the current opportunities are too good to pass up. Yesterday strategists at HSBC published a research report stating that investors have a rare opportunity to invest in high-yielding European …
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European companies generally tend to have higher dividend yields than U.S. companies. For example, currently the dividend yield on the S&P 500 is just 2.15% compared to 3.69% and 4.2% for UK’s FTSE 100 and Germany’s DAX. Though European dividend yields are high, the total dividend payouts are still lagging according to a research report …
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