Word: investors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign exchange in return for half ownership. India's Orissa province needs $1,500,000 in foreign capital to build a $3,700,000 brick and ceramic factory, which after two years should yield a tax-free dividend of 10%. Puerto Rico has a private investor who wants capital for a $2,000,000 tire plant. Thailand needs a cannery and food-freezing plant...
...would be made from payrolls in return for stock in new enterprises. In effect, the development bank would operate like an investment trust in the U.S., diffusing stock ownership over the maximum number of depositors and eliminating the risk of a bad investment that might wipe out a single investor's capital...
...middle-income apartment houses are being built because operators and builders no longer find such structures attractive investments. City land is expensive, and an office building or luxury apartment offers better returns. Today's investor in a middle-income apartment building often clears only 4% after taxes, no more than he could make on a high-grade bond. When a builder does start out to construct a middle-income building, climbing costs of labor and materials often force him to end up charging monthly rentals beyond the reach of the middle-income family-up to $100 a room...
...SAVINGS BONDS have slipped away from longtime role as nation's favorite investment, says Federal Reserve Board. Some comparisons from an investor survey...
...Commerce Department last week reported that U.S. business is fast becoming history's most prolific foreign investor. In 1956 U.S. private investments abroad jumped by a record $3.9 billion to $33 billion, three times more than the total investment in the domestic steel industry. American companies directly invested $2.8 billion in their foreign subsidiaries, a full $1.1 billion more than in 1955. Half of it went into the oil business, which also accounts for the biggest part of total U.S. investment abroad ($7.2 billion), but manufacturing investments rose by $739 million, while mining and public utilities also made...