Emerging markets hold promise for investors in 2021
By Rocco van Zyl
At the start of 2020 developed markets had delivered the best investment returns for a decade, with US stocks in leading the charge, with both the S&P 500 and NASDAQ soaring to record highs. However, going into February not even the smartest commentators predicted the arrival of Covid-19, and the subsequent market crash that followed in its wake.
Rocco van Zyl
Although world markets had been through stock market crashes before, this one was unique in the sense that countries around the world were hit by a global pandemic, with governments having very little knowledge about the virus and how to curb it. The future of the global economy was initially fogged, as it was widely believed that the world would only start getting back to normal once an effective vaccine was produced and readily available to citizens everywhere.
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With the FTSE 100 off to a great start to 2021, the index’s dividend yield has declined to 3.1% a year. That’s a multiple of the income yield from safe assets, but I can do much, much better. I calculate that 30 FTSE 100 members offer dividend yields above that of the wider index. Right now, the Footsie includes a dozen companies paying cash dividends of 5%+ a year. Here are two of the highest dividend yields on offer from blue-chip companies today.
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By Lynn Fries. Originally published at GPE Newdocs
LYNN FRIES: Hello and welcome. I’m Lynn Fries producer of Global Political Economy or GPEnewsdocs. I am delighted to have Michael Hudson joining us today. He will be discussing how under a neoliberal shift from industrial to finance capitalism, today’s most pressing economic conflict is not simply between labor and employers. It is a conflict in which rentier interests have the upper hand over labor, industry and government together. This is the political economy in which the COVID-19 economic shock is playing out with dire consequences.
Michael Hudson is a research professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. A prolific author, Michael Hudson’s latest book is …