Although not completely immune from the current global economic slowdown, many telecom services companies are currently yielding higher amounts than tobacco companies and the Utilities Select Sector SPDR (XLU). Although many of the foreign telecom companies included in the ETFI Global Telco Services Dividend Income Index issued special one-time dividends over the past year which inflates their trailing 12-month yield; both Verizon (VZ) and AT&T (T) are currently yielding over 6% each while trading at multi-year lows.
America Movil and Yahoo! Partner to Bring Mobile Search and Compelling Mobile Services to Millions of Consumers Across 16 Countries in Latin America. Am é rica M ó vil (AMX) is the leading provider of wireless services in Latin America. As of September 30, 2007, it had 143 million wireless subscribers and 3.8 million landlines in the Americas. http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071220/20071220005193.html?.v=1
Mexico still has plenty of room to grow -- the International Monetary Fund and Goldman Sachs expect Mexico to be the fifth-largest economy in t...
This mexican company has know over 140 million mobile phone subscribers. It continues to grow in Mexico, Central and Soutth America at an incredible pace. The company produces enough cash flow to cover its CAPEX, Diviidends and share buy back's. I recomend a Buy, based on the Cash this company will continue to produce, and its still amazing growth potencial (200 million subscribers by 2010)
It's been at the core of my portfolio since the beginning of 2005. I only wish I had gotten in earlier. AMX serves rapidly growing markets and I think there is still a lot of upside.
The telecom business is definitely not recession-proof, as those that have followed the industry have recently realized, but it is not a field that is going to fade into the horizon any time soon either. Simply put, people need to communicate and the telecom business is poised to continue rolling with the new technology and bringing people what they need. If you see the value of telecom companies and agree that their future is, perhaps not golden, but definitely strong, then an investment in an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) is an excellent way to invest in t...
Congratulations to Rudy Martin, who has launched a fascinating new advisory service focused on Latin American stocks.
In his Latin Stock Investing, he explains, "The region's financial resilience is supported by three mega-trends: a population explosion, energy self-sufficiency and materials wealth." As an overview, we feature a glimpse at 4 of the 14 stocks chosen for his just-begun model portfolio.
"The stocks on the Growth Portfolio have the best combination of momentum, strength and future expectations values. The simple concept is that these are the stocks to focus on to create the best
One trend we point to for 2009 is the wave of personal bankruptcies that shall awash Americans; we've written story after story after story about how people are now hiding out in their last option: credit cards - as all other places to stash debt have been shut off or used up. Ironically the credit card companies successfully lobbied to make personal bankruptcies much harder which led to a rash of filings a few (2?) years ago before the rules changed. Now, we will watch in great irony in 2009-2010 as the politicians who were bought and paid off bring up the credit card company executives ...
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