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...Integrity Dividend: Leading by the Power of Your Word By Tony Simons Jossey-Bass; 244 pages...
...Swooned in October, some investors scored big on the jock market. OneSeason.com a website that lets users trade virtual shares of sports stars, made its debut on Oct. 1, and though the stock is fake--Kobe Bryant won't give you a dividend--the profits and losses are very real. TIME's Sean Gregory asked an active trader how to play the game...
...nine bank bosses, assembled in the Treasury's imposing boardroom, were each handed a piece of paper with the terms: $25 billion of preferred shares each from Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America. In return for the capital, the U.S. would collect a 5% dividend in the first five years. Although Wells Fargo chairman Richard Kovacevich resisted, Paulson gave the bankers no choice. It's partial nationalization, although in announcing the bailout Oct. 14, Paulson deliberately avoided using that term. "Today's actions are not what we ever wanted to do, but today's actions are what...
...benefit will begin to flow to small businesses shortly thereafter," he says. Every $1 of equity creates $10 in lending power. Half of the $250 billion set aside for capitalization is targeted at smaller banks. Some banks are wary of the strings attached--including a halt to dividend increases--but they may have no choice...
Certainly some stocks have been getting cheap. McManus points out that last Friday the dividend yield reached 3.3%, which was higher than the expected inflation rate. The last time this happened was during the 2002 sell-off, which presaged 26% market growth the next year...