The Mexican stock market reached record highs since Enrique Peña Nieto became the President last year. Despite drug violence the country’s economy performed well in the past few years. Though the Mexican economy is highly related to the U.S. economy, it recovered quickly from the recession following the global financial crisis. Mexico’s manufacturing industry is …
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There are many reasons to invest in foreign stocks. In addition to emerging and frontier markets, U.S. investors should have exposure to other developed markets. This is is because companies in other developed countries operate differently with respect to management and other factors and their sales territory is not only limited to their home markets …
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Of all the ratios that are available to evaluate a company, dividend yield is probably one of the best ways to measure the performance of the company. Since dividends have to be paid out of a company’s profits there are not many ways to manipulate this figure unlike others. Any company that does not pay …
Mid-cap stocks have outperformed small and large-caps since 2008 and even from 1993. This is interesting since some think small caps would outperform the other two types. Mid-caps can defined as stocks from market capitalization of $1.0 billion or more.Some consider companies with market capitalizations of $3.0 billion or more as mid-caps. There is no one …
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Effective January 1st of this year the rates on many different types of taxes increased as part of the fiscal cliff deal. However the most of these increases affect only high earners. The majority of the working population are not impacted by most these increases especially taxes related to investments such as capital gains and …
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