I wrote an article titled “Eight Points To Remember About Biotech Stocks” earlier this month. The following is an update to that post. Biotech stocks have been in the news lately. The sector is inherently volatile as I explained in the above post.The dramatic decline and fall of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (VRX) is a classic example …
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Equity markets worldwide have stabilized in the past few weeks.Before that markets went on a roller-coaster ride due to a multitude of worries including the great Chinese slowdown, crash in commodity markets, the Federal Reserve interest rate hike, emerging markets’ currency crashes, plunge in oil prices, etc. However all of these issues should not be a great …
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U.S. investors looking for income stocks should consider adding foreign stocks. One of the important reason to go overseas for dividends is that foreign stocks generally tend to have higher dividend yields than US stocks.Despite dividend withholding taxes it is possible to generate a better return from foreign stocks. Among the developed economies, the US …
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Preferred Stocks are better than common stocks in some ways.For instance, preferred stock holders rank higher in claims against a company’s earnings and assets. So in case a company goes bankrupt preferred holders will be paid first before common stock holders, provided there is any assets leftover after other creditors are paid.However preferreds are not risk-free investments. One …
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Financials dominate some of the major benchmark indices. Even in the Bovespa, they account for nearly one-third of the index. Click to enlarge Source: Why investors need not fear a commodity meltdown, The Hindu Business Line, Oct 5, 2015