Ten Foreign Telecom Stocks with More Than 5% Dividend Yields

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Ten of the foreign fixed-line telecom stocks offer yields of more than 5% as of December 31,2009 as shown in the table below.

Fixed-line telecom companies in foreign countries tend to be monopolies or hold a dominating position in the market even if other carries operate. Many of them are also the largest telecom service providers in the country and have expanded into other related areas such as mobile, internet services. Though they are highly regulated, these firms have a solid customer base and continue to push other services to existing customers.

Brazilian telecom company Brasil Telecom Participacoes merged with Tele Norte Leste recently to form Tele Norte Leste Participacoes S.A.(TNE).

The Complete List of Fixed-Line Telecom ADRs with their current yields are:

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Summary Post: Top Banks of 2009 List

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Here are the links to some of the articles related to banks that I wrote last year:

The Banker: Bank of the Year Awards 2009 

India’s Best Banks 2009

The Top 10 German Banks by Assets Held 

The Top 10 Brazilian Banks based on Assets 

The Top 10 Chilean Banks based on Assets 

The Top 10 Banks of Canada Based on Assets 

The 10 Most Profitable Banks in India 

China’s 10 Most Profitable Banks 

European and American Banks with Assets in Trillions 

The World’s 50 Biggest Banks based on Assets 

The Top 50 Banks of Brazil by Assets

The Complete List of Oil ADR Stocks

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The complete list of oil-sector related ADRs traded in the organized exchanges in the US are listed below. These stocks include oil and gas producers, distributors, equipment makers and servicing companies.

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Source: BNY Mellon Depository Receipts

Note: Information posted above is known to be accurate. Please do your own research before making any investment decisions.

Contract oil driller Ensco(ESV) is an American company that is currently based in Dallas, TX. Last month, Ensco decided to move its headquarters to London, UK. Hence the stock is now listed as an ADR.

Emerging market oil companies performed better than Western giants such as Eni, BP, Royal Dutch Shell,TOTAL in terms of return to shareholders in 2009. Norwegian oil company Statoil was an exception. Statoil returned nearly 50%. Despite the strong performance in 2009, Petrobras of Brazil holds lots of potential for further growth. Chinese firms CNOOC, Petro-China and China Petroleum & Chemical are also great picks for 2010 as auto sales in China is projected to grow by double digits.

The Complete List of Oil ADRs Traded on the OTC Markets can be found here.

2009 Performance Review of Large US Bank Stocks

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The 2009 performance of thirteen large US bank stocks is listed below:

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The worst performer is Citibank(C) which lost 50%. Despite bailed out by the tax payers with billions of dollars Citi could not recover like its peers. Citibank stock is now cheaper than the cost of a McDonald’s value meal.The best performing bank in the above list is JPMorgan Chase (JPM) which returned about 20% to investors. Regional giants such as Regions Financial (RF),US Bank(USB) and BB&T (BBT) ended in the negative territory for the year. While National City of Cleveland,Ohio was sacrificed by the Feds to PNC(PNC) , city rival Key Bank (KEY) survived the crisis but still the stock lost one third of its value.

Compared to the performance of the US banks above, many large cap foreign bank stocks yielded higher returns to investors. Of course there were also some foreign banks such as Lloyds and RBS of UK that were worse than above banks, but most of the other foreign banks recovered strongly from their March lows.