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...plans to restructure its capital by declaring a 50-for-1 stock split. The move will reduce the value of the 16,000 voting bearer shares to about $3,300 each. The overhaul will also cut the price of Hoffmann-La Roche's 61,440 shares of nonvoting dividend-rights certificates, which the company calls Genussscheine or "joy certificates," from about $95,000 to $1,900 and eliminate a cheaper class of stock that was nicknamed Baby Roche. If holders approve the restructuring, as expected, the company will have a total of 800,000 voting shares and 3.3 million certificates...
Icahn will extract a rich payoff. Texaco agreed to pay a special shareholder dividend of $2 billion, nearly $340 million of which will go to the raider. The money will come from the oil firm's $7 billion in proceeds from assets it has sold off since last June, partly at Icahn's urging...
...should encourage equity investment and discourage excessive debt % through changes in the tax laws. Specifically, the double tax on dividend payments by corporations should be eliminated. In many European countries, companies are taxed only on retained earnings and not on profits distributed as dividends. This is not the case in the U.S., where dividends are taxed first as corporate income and then as personal income. The European method favors dividend payments and makes stocks more attractive to investors; it should be adopted in the U.S. At the same time, we should limit the federal tax subsidies of speculative corporate debt...
...conflict-of-interest laws by taking part in Justice Department decisions that could have enhanced the value of the stock he held in regional Bell Telephone companies. Although Meese had tried to transfer the shares to a financial adviser, he did not actually sell them and continued to get dividend checks. But he did not cash them, and McKay found no evidence that Meese sought to profit from the Justice Department deliberations...
...most faithful in attending thrice-weekly after-hours classes held at Martin Luther King Jr. High School. On a recent afternoon, he was at the blackboard trying to figure out fractions. "Which one is the numerator?" the teacher asked. He pointed to it and then, on cue, to the dividend, the quotient, the remainder, the divisor, the denominator. His fellow cast members gazed intently at the blackboard chalked full of figures. On the wall was a poster from another Broadway play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf...