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Major Defensive Hit: McDonald’s Crushed In Latin America (MCD, ARCO, YUM)

Posted: May 4, 2012 at 12:58 pm

McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is supposed to be the king of defensive stocks. It pays a dividend of close to 3%, it was the best performing DJIA component in 2011, ...
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Apple, Nokia, Sony Top Asian Brand List (AAPL, NOK, SNE,CL, KO, HMC, TM, GOOG, MCD, MSFT, AMZN, SSNLF, NKE, DIS, YHOO)

Posted: April 20, 2012 at 10:19 am

Among the more developed countries of Asia -- China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan -- the top global brand is Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) in three and trails only a ...
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Solazyme Scores Brazilian JV With Bunge (SZYM, BG)

Posted: April 3, 2012 at 8:39 am

Solazyme, Inc. (NASDAQ: SZYM) is surging on news this morning that the renewable oil and bioproducts outfit has formed a joint venture with a unit of Bunge Limited (NYSE: BG) to ...
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Can Asian Franchise Growth Save RadioShack? (RSH)

Posted: March 22, 2012 at 2:26 pm

RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH) is putting its hope that international growth will drive a long overdue and hoped-for turnaround.  The company has announced a very large franchise growth pact under ...
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Randgold, a Mali Coup, and the Price of Timbuktu (GOLD)

Posted: March 22, 2012 at 11:38 am

Randgold Resources Limited (NASDAQ: GOLD) is paying a price for where it does business.  The political situation in the African nation Mali is in a coup.  The gold mining outfit ...
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BRIC Woes Move From China To Brazil (GOL, PBR, VIV, VALE, EWZ)

Posted: March 6, 2012 at 11:50 am

The growth engines of the world are called the BRIC nations for Brazil, Russia, China, and India.  What happens when growth rates are just not as robust as they are ...
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Two New Emerging Market Dividend ETFs (BLK, DVYE, DVYA, EDIV, DEM, DGS)

Posted: February 24, 2012 at 9:53 am

Dividend investors have two new vehicles to go out and earn monthly or quarterly income from equities.  There is also an Asia/Pacific angle and emerging market angle to these.  BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: ...
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Fitch Joins E.U. Downgrade Waves (EWK, IRE, EIRL, IRL, EWI, TI, EWP, STD)

Posted: January 27, 2012 at 1:30 pm

Fitch has joined in on the European sovereign credit rating downgrades.  First it was S&P, but we might argue that this should have mostly been factored in already.  Is it ...
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Dividend & Replacement Cycle, Discounting Ford’s Poor Earnings (F, GM)

Posted: January 27, 2012 at 12:53 pm

Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is getting clocked today after earnings.  Some of the news should have been anticipated that Thai floods affected its supply chain in Asia because the ...
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The BRIC Cheer: Stimulus Coming To India (EPI, PIN, IFN, IIF, INFY, TTM, IBN, SLT)

Posted: January 18, 2012 at 11:22 am

India could finally be starting to turn itself around.  Now that the nation is no longer so ultra-concerned about inflation tearing apart its population, the country is aiming for some ...
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A U.S.-Germany-China Economic Recovery?

Posted: January 9, 2012 at 6:48 am

Germany’s economy has grown, despite trouble among its neighbors. China’s GDP is expected to grow 8% this year, which is impressive even if it is a slowdown from recent years. Most ...
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Peru Set To Win From Trade Pacts & Ratings Upgrades in 2012 (EPU, BAP, BVN, SCCO)

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 12:21 pm

Peru was recently listed as one of the few nations which could actually face a ratings upgrade in 2012.  Not all nations are being downgraded.  Recent news of a new ...
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Eight Countries With Credit Ratings Set to Rise Next Year

Posted: December 21, 2011 at 12:14 pm

It seems that all of the nations around the world are facing sovereign credit ratings downgrades or warnings of downgrades. After the United States lost its prized "AAA" rating, the threat of downgrades ...
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Kim Jong-il Death Drives Uncertain Korean Trading (EWY, KF, KEF, SKOR, PKX, KEP, SKM, ATK, RTN)

Posted: December 19, 2011 at 9:53 am

If there is one of several regions which can erupt rapidly, it is around the Korean Peninsula.  The death of Kim Jong-il (that photo is a tribute photo for him) after a ...
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Egyptian Unrest Takes Headlines All Over Again (EGPT)

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 7:05 am

If the news reports are accurate out of Cairo, things are going from bad all over again to far worse all over again in Egypt.  It turns out that the interim ...
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