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The talk about a dividend for Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) has heated up more recently, with comments by professionals on Wall Street fueling the speculation. Money manager Howard Ward of Gamco Investors said on a Street Smart interview with Bloomberg television, that he thought Apple would declare a one-time dividend Read the rest of this entry »

Yanzhou Coal Mining Co.(NYSE: YZC) last week reportedly made a $2 billion offer for Australia's Gloucester Coal (ASX: GCL), in a bid that would expand the Chinese coal miner's operations in the increasingly important coal mining region. Yanzhou is the Read the rest of this entry »

When China’s President Hu Jintao, along with Vice-President Xi Jinping, went to the North Korean embassy in Beijing to pay their respects in the aftermath of the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, the rest of the world no doubt took this as a simple sign of the close relations between China and North Korea.

The sudden death of the 69 year-old North Korean dictator, however, shouldn’t Read the rest of this entry »

The news was tucked away at the end of the last month, at least it was easy to overlook as a strong overall market move on a Wednesday had the averages soaring, the S & P jumping more than 50 points, which just about obscured everything else. But that was also the day of the announcement by media and entertainment giant Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) that it raised its annual dividend from 40 cents to 60 cents. Read the rest of this entry »

We are living in a binary investment world: risk on or risk off; buy in or sell out; all in or all in cash. The often black and white, yes or no view of investing, which has seen instant judgments made on stocks and whole industry sectors may not be just a tenor of Read the rest of this entry »

China has been planning to increase its overseas investment and will put its plans into action with the creation of two new sovereign wealth funds, according to a recent Reuters report. China’s central bank is creating the new investment vehicle, Read the rest of this entry »

General Electric (NYSE: GE), the diversified global industrial conglomerate, recently announced a two-cent quarterly dividend hike to 17 cents a share. This brings the annual dividend payment to 68 cents a share, which at a recent after hours stock price of $16.93, gives the stock a current yield of 4 percent. The dividend Read the rest of this entry »

At the close of last week, in the wake of news of a slowing economy and ongoing global worries over the European debt crisis, China's stock markets once again fell. The week ended on a down note for China's major indices, with the Shanghai Composite Read the rest of this entry »

With the report out from China's official government sources on its latest inflation numbers, all indications are that China will continue its economic policies more toward easing. Inflation for November, measured by the consumer price index, rose a surprisingly low 4.2 percent compared to November a year ago, and was down sequentially from October's 5.5 percent. Estimates had pegged this year's November number to come in at 4.4 Read the rest of this entry »

In the face of puny Treasury yields and equally microscopic money market returns, many investors still interested in income look to dividend paying stocks. Some simply want income, and are less concerned with a package of total return, while others are interested in a combination of income and capital appreciation. While investors would love to get the highest returns they can, most investors realize this should be tempered by an understanding of risk. Read the rest of this entry »