Expansionary monetary policy in developed nations like U.S. and Japan has held interest rates at or close to zero.
To gold equity buyers like U.S. Global, this represents a tremendous buying opportunity.
Currency traders were emboldened to take on risk, rebuilding carry-trade positions, and safe harbors like U.S. Treasuries and Japanese government bonds slid.
Royalty trusts are like U.S. real estate investment trusts, which can avoid corporate taxes by channeling most of their earnings to investors.
But I do like U.S. technology stocks as another global play.
Companies like U.K. firm Vodafone, U.S.-based Lockheed Martin and China's Haier Group landed toward the bottom of the list, with scores under 65--but they aren't losers by many means.
This year, bankers expect a new wave of Hong Kong IPOs from multinationals looking to list their China operations, throwing out names of prospects like U.S.-based Yum Brands Inc.
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Bahjat was an IT specialist, and he says that, just like U.S. soldiers, Iraqis who worked with Americans took their lives in their hands simply by showing up every day.
Narrow and Mislabeled ETFs: Like U.S. Oil, many ETFs these days are trying to create robust businesses out of thin air and have to make costly, or misleading, compromises to do it.
Prolonging the tax credit is sure to be welcomed by home builders like Toll Brothers and KB Homes, as well as financial institutions like U.S. Bank, whose mortgage-revenue rose nearly 5% last quarter.
If they spend more than 30 days in the U.S. during any one of those ten years, they'll be taxed that year just like U.S. citizens, on all their income from any source.
Then there is the growing trend of consumers ditching their cable and satellite television services (like U-Verse perhaps, which also offers digital TV along with Internet) opting instead to stream content over the Internet.
Clearly companies like Comcast and GE, are mindful of that reality in an environment where investors look to the equity market for yield due to the paltry rates on many fixed-income instruments like U.S. Treasuries.
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Uncertainty over the timeline for a resolution in Europe and falling levels in the stock market have also helped drive investors into safe-haven assets like U.S. Treasuries, which has left the 10-year bond today yielding 2.11% and the 30-year long-term bond yielding 3.13%.
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Will the U.S. economic recovery be shaped like a U, V, W or L?
Cheaper oil prices bodes well for heavy oil importing nations like the U.S. and Europe, but also for important emerging market nations like India and China.
It helps for producing electricity, but if industrial countries like the U.S. and Europe can put in place more environmentally sound resources like nuclear energy, it would allow more developing countries to use fossil fuels for their development in the 21st century.
This an equity ETF, not some futures mess like the U.S. Natural Gas Fund (NYSE: UNG).
Japanese corporates, like their U.S. counterparts, are sitting on historically high levels of cash.
And many universities are going to open in India, like the U.S. universities and colleges.
Not 2.5 times its book value like the U.S. equity market, but its book value.
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But countries on the other side of industrialization, like the U.S., necessarily grow less quickly.
However, some of these bonds do not pay interest, like the U.K.-premium bonds.
Okay, suppose you like the U.S. dollar, which has been very strong relative to other currencies.
Sounds like the U.S. at the height of the feminist revolution in the early '70s.
In cases like the U.S. and Mexico, banks are competing with lower rates to handle transfers.
For his part, Arar says he'd like the U.S. government to acknowledge its mistakes.
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