German auto-parts maker ZF Friedrichshafen AG announced a bid to acquire US-based TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. (TRW) in a deal worth $12.0 billion last month. However the deal is being held due to the German firm’s negotiations with Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany’s largest auto-parts manufacturer, to exit a joint venture according to a recent report by Bloomberg. The merger of ZF …
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One of the issues that investors in NYSE/NASDAQ-listed foreign stocks face is what to do when a company decides to delist from any of these two exchanges. In this post let us discuss some of the options available to deal with this issue: Why do foreign companies delist from exchanges? There are many reasons a …
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U.S. stocks, as measured by the S&P 500 index outperformed Canadian stocks last year. This was because the S&P 500 has a heavy concentration of IT stocks. This sector accounted for some 40% of the out-performance of the index last year against Canada’s benchmark S&P/TSX Composite index according to a research report by CIBC World …
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Investors should not panic and sell their holdings during times of extreme volatility in equity markets especially due to a global crisis. I wrote an article earlier this year discussing why panic selling is not good. During times of times of a crisis it is best to stay clam and not do anything. I wrote a couple of …
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Equity markets in some developed Europe have performed very well so far this year compared to the U.S. market. Stocks in a few of the hard-hit economies of the recent past have rebounded sharply. For example, the year-to-date price returns of the MSCI index for Ireland, Italy, Portugal are 11.1%, 10.95% and 7.44% respectively. The MSCI index …
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