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...Mack to discuss increasing the Chinese government's stake in the venerable - and flailing - investment bank, he bears an obvious burden. Last December, the CIC (the China Investment Corp.) invested $5 billion for a 9.9% stake in Morgan Stanley (for which the bank must pay CIC a 9% annual dividend until 2010). On paper, that investment is now down more than 25%. Worse, Beijing paid $3 billion for a piece of the Blackstone Group just ahead of the private-equity firm's initial public offering last June - an investment that occurred about a nanosecond before the so-called subprime crisis...
...list of new cuts included the elimination of the dividend on common stock, all executive bonuses and, with the apparent approval of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, health-care coverage for salaried retirees over the age of 65. In addition, GM plans to launch a new wave of buyouts among its 32,000 salaried employees while freezing their salaries for the remainder of 2008 and 2009. The benefit cuts and early retirements are expected to reduce GM's salary costs by 20%, saving the company $1.5 billion by the end of 2009, GM executives said...
...Helping Hand Democrats in the U.S. senate have proposed a $7 billion aid package to Pakistan, including a "democracy dividend" of $1 billion, over the next four years to help the civilian government with education reform, health care and infrastructure. It's a welcome move, but opening up the U.S. market to Pakistani products such as textiles would provide a longer-term - and taint-free - solution. The chorus among businessmen and analysts across the country is "trade, not aid." The U.S. presence in Pakistan, particularly in the FATA, is viewed with suspicion. American Predator drone attacks on apparent al-Qaeda...
...total-return basis have outperformed stocks in five of the past eight years--a first since the Depression. He believes that trend will hold this year. Bernstein also likes stocks of large-cap companies and, as a play on the weak dollar, foreign stocks that pay a dividend (in euros or yen). Consider MFS International Diversification, which recently had a 12-month yield of more than 5%, or Wisdom Tree International Dividend, an exchange-traded fund that recently had a net yield...
...assets in the fund and yielding 5.7%. The after-tax equivalent of that yield for someone in the 30% tax bracket: 8.2%. Steep discounts and generous yields are still available in closed-end muni funds, including DTF Tax Free (recently at a 10% discount, with a 4.4% dividend...