Word: dividends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slide began early in the week, when both Exxon and U.S. Steel announced lower second-quarter earnings. Then on Wednesday came a shocker from Bethlehem Steel, which reported an operating loss of $75.4 million for the first half and cut its dividend. With that, the slide turned to slaughter: in frantic trading, the Dow plunged almost 20 points. For the week, it closed down 33 points, at 890.07, almost 10% below its January level...
...strapped. Realizing that it could not afford to complete its two new generating plants, let alone begin construction at Storm King-even if environmental objections were overcome-Con Ed sold the two plants to the state power authority. Most dramatic of all, the company skipped its regular 450 quarterly dividend. From a high...
...Same Dividend. Other bankers have estimated that the Chiasso affair -named for the town in the Italian-speaking Swiss canton of Ticino where the scandal centered-could cost the firm some $400 million. Nonetheless. Aeppli assured stockholders that the rest of Crédit Suisse's affairs were in good order and indicated that this year's dividend would most likely be the same as that paid in 1976: $32 per bearer share...
...Ending "double taxation" of dividends. At present, a corporation pays tax on its profits, and then a stockholder pays tax on the portion of the remaining profit that he receives in dividends. The simplest way of ending this process would be to exempt from corporate taxes the portion of a company's profits that are paid out in dividends. However, the tax-reform team also is studying various proposals for integrating corporate and individual taxes. A stockholder, like a member of a partnership, would include in his taxable income his proportionate share of the company's profits. Several...
...carmine-lipped girls with padded shoulders, the hokey production number with the star swiveling down an immense abstract staircase-they're all here. But why? Half the time Scorsese is sending them up, and the other half trying to cash them in at face value for a dividend of unearned nostalgia...