S&P Global has published the Dividend Withholding Tax Rates by Country table for 2024. This handy one-pager is a useful tool for investors that invest in foreign stocks. Dividends from most foreign stocks are subject to withholding taxes for Americans and hence it is important to keep track of the rates. Higher tax rates would …
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The US welcomed the new year with yet another grim milestone. The US Gross Federal Debt has crossed $34.0 Trillion (or) $34,000,000,000,000. This number is “meaningless” for many people as the number is so huge its impossible to comprehend. Some may say “who cares”. They might as well run it to $100 Trillion. In an …
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The economic growth of a country and its equity market returns are not directly linked. Conventional wisdom would imply that higher economic growth leads to higher equity market returns and vice versa. But that is not always the case. In fact, the relationship between a country’s GDP growth and its equity market returns is weak …
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One of the factors that have been investors’ mind for the past many months has been inflation. Soaring inflation rates led the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates multiple times to tame inflation. Their effort might be bearing fruit soon. The recently release report from BLS showed inflation is cooling. The CPI rate was 3.2% …
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