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People once bought stocks primarily because of the notion that the company would return a chunk of its earnings to them in the form of a hefty dividend. How quaint. The average blue-chip company now pays such a stingy dividend that the yield, which is the dividend divided by the stock price, is less than 2%--a payout so low it had been considered imponderable for most of this century. Yet here it is, another landmark racing past the windshield of this bull-market dragster. Should you care if the typical stock now yields a paltry 1 point something...
...back to all that. But first consider just how out-of-the-box this dividend score is. Since 1928, when record keeping started, the dividend yield of the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 stock index has tended to float between 3% and 6%. Until now, the lowest it ever got was 2.6% in both 1973 and 1987--just ahead of huge market declines...
...stock funds rather than its bond portfolios.) It would be a mistake not to consider buying some of Fidelity's funds. The company's stock-picking expertise is simply too great to ignore. Stars like Steve Wymer, who manages the $1.3 billion--smallish by Fidelity's standards--Dividend Growth Fund; Will Danoff, who runs the $19 billion Contrafund; and Robert Stansky, who recently took over Magellan, are all folks to invest by. It's still too early to rate Stansky's run at Magellan, but he was a standout at the Growth Company Fund. Fidelity's array of 35 sector...
PHILIP MORRIS Though lawsuits loom, it helps snuff investors' fears by boosting dividend...
Clinton also declared a peace dividend following a pact by the world's seven wealthiest industrial nations plus Russia to seek a ban on nuclear testing by September. The same Moscow summit produced agreement on joint efforts to contain trafficking in nuclear materials. "Today we took yet another step back from the nuclear precipice," said the President. But environmental groups sharply criticized the summit for its failure to deal with a score of issues, including the shutdown of aging, Soviet-designed nuclear reactors. Meanwhile Russia reaffirmed its decision to sell nuclear-energy technology to Iran despite the Administration's protests...