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...Concerto No. 2 is rarely played in the concert hall-and even more rarely played well. But Bach himself would have been pleased with last week's performance by the Hamburg Chamber Orchestra, and the Hamburg Musikhalle echoed to a stamping, shouting ovation. The orchestra had provided a dividend: playing the fiendishly difficult trumpet part was perhaps the best classical trumpeter in Europe-the North German Radio Orchestra's pint-sized (5 ft. 1 in.), portly (187 Ibs.) Adolf Scherbaum...
...rigid exchange controls has the federation government managed to avert a crippling flight of capital. On the London Stock Exchange, shares in Rhodesian Selection Trust, one of the titans of the Copper Belt, have dropped from 37 shillings to 25-despite the fact that they pay an 18% annual dividend...
...stocks that offer reasonable income and low price-earnings ratios. One such list, circulated by Manhattan's Schweickart & Co., ticked off half a dozen blue chips-including Allied Stores. General Motors, Jones & Laughlin and Royal Dutch Petroleum-with price-earnings ratios of less than 12 to 1 and dividend yields of 4% or more. For many stocks, yields were on the rise-and not only because stock prices had fallen so much. Last month 89 U.S. companies increased their dividends; in May of last year, only...
...Crossing. That movement is going on now. The average dividend yield on the 30 stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial average has risen from 3.19% in early January to 3.87%. During the same period, the average yield on ten top-grade bonds in the Barren's index slipped from 4.41% to 4.19% because demand increased as some of the big institutional investors switched out of stocks and into bonds. If this narrowing between yields continues, stocks should become more appealing to investors...
...caution. With uninhibited confidence, Nestlé has made a success of peddling canned milk in dairy-rich Denmark and instant coffee in Brazil. Most of the company's earnings are poured back into expansion: its 70,000 shareholders, many of them Swiss farmers, get only a 1.2% annual dividend and equally meager information on Nestlé's fiscal condition. Explains one Nestlé executive: "Reticence hasn't harmed the company or the stock holders." Indeed it hasn't. An investment of $360 in Nestlé shares* in 1948 is now worth...