Data is being created at an astonishing rate today.From Youtube to Twitter to everything in between, billions of people around the world are creating content every day. The dramatic growth in social media in recent years has led to the creation of even more data, For example, millions of videos are uploaded onto Youtube, Facebook, …
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Extreme financial hardship brought dramatic changes in the past to Germany and the US according to an article by Niels Clemen Jensen at ARP Investments. In Germany, hyperinflation in 1923 and the following Depression brought Hitler to power and led to the rise of Nazism. The Great Depression in the 1930s led to the dumping of …
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The Dividend Withholding Tax Rates by Country for 2020 has recently been published by S&P Global. This simple one-page is useful to any investor holding foreign stocks and receiving dividend income. This table shows withholding tax rates for stocks held in regular brokerage accounts only. It does not show the rates for assets held in qualified …
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I came across the following chart on the world’s busiest airports in 2018. Three US airports are in this list with Atlanta taking the top spot.The other two airports are Los Angeles and Chicago’s O’Hare. Click to enlarge Source: Explore the World’s 10 Busiest Airports, U.S. Global Investors Though Atlanta consistently ranks as the world’s busiest …
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The US is projected to be the biggest economy in the world in 2020. The second biggest economy will be China followed by Japan. Canada will be the 10th largest economy behind only Brazil. Click to enlarge Source: Focus Economics