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...even with stocks swinging like Tarzan on amphetamines, you're not doomed to smack into a tree. The trick: turn off CNBC, stay diversified and don't stray from autopilot investing programs like 401(k)s, IRAs, college funds and dividend-reinvestment plans...
...David Dodd, the legendary prophets of value investing. In the 1930s they preached that the price of a company's stock should be tightly pegged to its profits--the famous price-to-earnings ratio, or P/E, derived by dividing a stock's price by its earnings per share. The dividend yield (the payout as a ratio of the stock price) also mattered. On that basis, stocks have been getting increasingly expensive. The P/E of stocks in the S&P 500 index has climbed from an average of 13 in Graham and Dodd's time to as much...
...houses. Yet it would hardly be surprising if the reverse were true. Home-equity rates are comparable to margin rates at about 9.5%. They're easy to tap and fully tax deductible regardless of investment income. That last point is big because hot stocks today don't throw off dividend income. You may be better off in the short run tapping your home-equity line than margining your brokerage account. And consider: if you have tapped a home-equity line for any reason, and you also own stocks in a taxable account, you've effectively leveraged your house...
Both the police and the community should be enjoying the dividend of more peaceful times in our cities. However, racial tension and community mistrust of the police abounds. The true tragedy of the New York City and Los Angeles events is that as crime rates fell, confidence in the police in the minority community fell with them. The police had an unprecedented opportunity to be at the front lines of healing the racial divide. Instead the police remain the flash point for racial tension...
...reasoning is simple: the company has too much money. It spent $7.6 billion last year in dividends and stock buybacks. At today's share price that's enough cash to self-fund a buyout over six years--a good indication the stock won't sink much lower and stay there. Robert Sanborn, manager of the Oakmark Fund, estimates that without raising prices or touching the dividend, Philip Morris could pay $10 million a day--$2.5 billion a year--without twitching. Oakmark has a large stake in Philip Morris (and a small stake of Kadlec dollars) and has doggedly held...