Word: investors
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While the Reagan Administration and Wall Street are lamenting high interest rates, many Americans have come to like them. The small investor who was boasting in the mid-'60s about his killing in the stock market or in the late '70s about his big earnings from real estate is now telling everyone within earshot about the yield on his money-market fund. Last week he was bragging that the money he took out of a savings bank, where it was earning 5.5% interest, was paying a 17% return...
...with financial futures, which are contracts to buy Government securities or foreign currencies at some later date. The speculators are betting that interest rates will go higher rather than lower. If the cost of money goes up, they sell their futures contracts for a good earning. For instance, an investor who in June put up a $2,400 deposit on a $100,000 Treasury bond future due in December of this year could have liquidated his position last week and made an impressive profit of about...
...Merchants Bank of Burlington, Vt., which promised to pay 50% on an annual basis-for one month. Said Merchants Bank President Dudley Davis: "This is one of the few opportunities to guarantee a margin of profit for the bank, attract new customers and provide a profitable return to the investor...
...article "Boom Time in Venture Capital" [Aug. 10], the securities division of my office has observed an increase in the number of inexperienced companies seeking initial financing through public offerings. Often the low stock prices of these enterprises make them attractive to inexpert investors who cannot monitor their performance. Consequently, these companies are mostly not appropriate investments for the small investor...
...also hit hard. Bonds have been slumping in value since last summer because of the expectation of ever higher interest rates, and last week they took another big dive. IBM triple-A bonds maturing in the year 2004 slumped 3.7%, to 68½, thereby currently yielding 14.2% to any investor interested in buying them. Bonds of Mountain States Telephone, a Bell System subsidiary, dropped 3.1%, pushing the yield on long-term securities maturing in the year...