Word: dividenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...almost ready for their showdown. By a 57-43 vote that got ?- but didn?t need ?- support from four Democrats, Senate Republicans passed their ten-year, $792 billion plan to give Americans an annual April dividend on their surplus. They don?t have a bill that'll go anywhere -? President Clinton, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "will veto anything this big" -? but Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and his House counterpart, Speaker Denny Hastert, have their defining issue. "We want to cut taxes and the President wants to spend it," Lott said after the vote. "That's what...
...vulnerable and your loan gets even more expensive. Rising rates smack growth stocks the hardest. So one hedge is to shift from stocks that typically trade at 30 to 70 times earnings (many tech stocks) to value stocks trading at far lower multiples. Those include small companies and dividend payers like utilities and real estate investment trusts. Then wait out the fever...
...Senate budget boss Pete Domenici, a cautious deficit hawk who wants to postpone tax cuts until surpluses grow much larger. New Jersey Democrat Robert Torricelli is proposing yet another idea: raise the amount of income subject to the 15% minimum rate and exempt $500 of interest and dividend income and $5,000 in capital-gains taxes...
...recent woeful results stand a couple of basic premises on their ear: namely, that high dividend yields (around 7.5%) make REITs an anchor in choppy markets; and that the mere existence of dozens of publicly traded real estate companies will somehow smooth the industry's masochistic boom-bust cycle--making REITs less volatile. Wrong...
...surprising backlash has developed. For starters, sporting a big dividend yield on turn-of-the-millennium Wall Street is like going to school with a KICK ME sign stuck to your back. You'll probably get pummeled. Investors want growth and capital gain. Period. That's apparent in today's fury to own money-losing, dividendless Internet and other tech stocks. Meanwhile, there is some question whether the rash of REITs will smooth the real estate cycle as advertised. The theory goes like this: with many real estate companies dependent on stock sales to fund projects, Wall Street becomes...