*** UPDATE: For the latest Dividend Withholding Tax Rates click : Dividend Withholding Tax Rates By Country 2017 When investing in overseas stocks investors have to pay withholding taxes on dividends paid out by a foreign company. Usually this tax is held by the country when dividends are sent out to non-resident investors. US investors can lose a …
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Tobacco companies offer some of the best investment opportunities in the sin sector. Generally tobacco, gambling, liquor companies are considered as part of the sin sector. In good times and bad times, people patronize these firms and their products. So its a win-win situation for investors as this industry turns from consumer discretionary to a consumer staples-type industry. Tobacco …
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Update: *** Go to The Number of Listed Companies by Country 2016 *** The number of publicly listed companies vary widely between countries. Generally the total number of listed companies are higher in the developed world than the emerging and frontier markets. However certain emerging markets such as India, China, Brazil has relatively high number of public …
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Bear markets are painful for equity investors but generally tend to occur every few years or so. Bull markets are always followed by bear markets and vice versa. From the dot-com crash to the recent global financial crisis, bear markets are not an aberration but are part of feature of equity markets. Though investors hate …
Holding international stocks is an important part of any portfolio diversification. In today’s globalized economy, putting all the eggs in one basket does not make sense. For US investors, going abroad not only may provide diversification benefits but also amplify returns. One of the strategies for achieving diversification is to substitute large-cap US companies with their …
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