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...ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE AND GRACE PERIOD. Interest rates for these cards average 1 percentage point higher than for nonaffiliated cards, according to Bankrate.com "The interest charges can easily outweigh the benefit," says Greg McBride, an analyst at Bankrate.com If you carry a balance, your first priority should be finding the lowest possible ongoing interest rate (not the teaser rate). If you don't carry a balance, make sure the card has a grace period of at least 25 days, or else you might incur charges anyway...
...Merrill Lynch analyst Mark Iannotti says it's "increasingly difficult to have confidence" in Shell's senior management. Still, he - like others - is sticking to his "neutral" rating for the stock. Sins Of Emission In its efforts to combat climate change, the European Commission seems to be producing its own hot air. Brussels boasted last week that all provisions of the 1997 Kyoto protocol on climate change are now legally binding. As part of the Kyoto deal, the E.U. agreed to lower greenhouse gas emission levels by 8% below 1990 levels between 2008 and 2012. But legislation alone...
...British Prime Minister Tony Blair seems to have tamped down the politically damaging fallout from his involvement in the Iraq war, something happens to revive the unpleasant issue. His attorney general stirred an outcry last week when he announced that the government would drop charges against a former intelligence analyst who exposed U.S. and British plans to spy on U.N. Security Council members potentially hostile to a war. Then Clare Short, a former member of Blair's Cabinet who last year resigned to protest her boss's stance on Iraq, accused British intelligence services of spying on U.N. Secretary-General...
Does earnings quality count when it comes to stock performance? Absolutely. Ask David Bianco, an accounting analyst at UBS who has scrutinized earnings quality. He found that since 1998, the 50 companies with the best quality earnings have returns that were about four times that of the S&P 500 index. The bottom 50? Zero returns over the same period...
...spread between operating and GAAP earnings really got out of whack from 2000 to 2002. Fortunately, the GAAP gap is narrowing. The spread was 13% for 2003, compared with an astonishing 75% in the fourth quarter of 2002, says Howard Silverblatt, market equity analyst at Standard & Poor's. That convergence bodes well for earnings quality, he says, although profits posted don't always tell the whole story...