International

6 Interesting South America Stocks

I thought I would put up a list of some interesting South America stocks for a pair of reasons. First as you can see from the chart above of the ETF for the Latin America 40 (ILF: 47.39 +0.32 +0.68%) that the region’s stocks have pulled back significantly over the recent few months. Second, I [...]


Watch List Update

Over the weekend I reorganized the Watch List of stocks I have a page of on this site. The Watch List consists of stock that I have run across for future deeper research or waiting for their particular sector to show some signs of life. The list has been growing faster than I have had [...]


High yield fund at a discount

I added the Alpine Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (AGD: 13.08 +0.25 +1.95%) to this site’s Income Portfolio primarily to get some exposure to higher yielding international stocks. I like the fund for several reasons:

It gives exposure to high-yielding international stocks.
They do not use leverage or pay out capital to sustain the dividend.
They use a dividend [...]


Crisis news abounds

I have a couple of positive topics I am interested in writing about today or over the next few days. However, the severe negativity surrounding the stock and real estate markets and now consumer confidence makes writing positive stories feel Pollyannaish. In my opinion, irrationality abounds, first entire sectors of the market were being driven [...]


Aircastle fears appear unfounded

CSPresentationJune2008Final.pdf (application/pdf Object)
A couple of days ago Aircastle Ltd. (AYR: 13.27 +0.44 +3.43%) gave a presentation at the Credit Suisse Capital Goods Finance Symposium and they have posted the slide show to their website. The link above is a PDF presentation of the slide show.
Going through the slides, it is apparent that Aircastle is in [...]