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...havens are investments that enable people to generate paper losses to write off against their regular income, thus shielding the investor's cash from the full bite of the IRS. A person making $100,000 a year, for example, might sink $30,000 in a tax shelter that would lower his taxable income in the first year to perhaps $85,000. Since at least half of the $30,000 would have gone to the IRS had it not been sheltered, the investor really gets his investment at half price. And it usually continues to generate write-offs for several...
Many market seers talk earnestly of the Dow's reaching 1000 by year's end, a level it last reached on Dec. 31, 1976, when it closed at 1004.65. What is needed to keep the bull market charging ahead? One thing would be investor confidence that there will not be a rerun of the spurt in interest rates that nipped the January boom. Another spur would be broad recognition that stocks remain cheap, especially in comparison with real estate, gold and other assets. Ten years ago, one ounce of gold, then worth $35, would have bought a little...
...investor who buys a financial future is betting that interest rates will decline or that a foreign currency's value will rise before his contract matures, thereby increasing the dollar value of the securities or currency that he has agreed to purchase. Margin requirements are low: a buyer may put up as little as $1,500 to buy a three-month contract for $1 million worth of Treasury bills, for example. Under a complicated formula, such a buyer might make a $2,500 profit if the interest rate was 8% when he bought the contract and 7% when...
...Midas with a smaller touch usually turned to the popular 1-oz. South African Krugerrand, which sells for about $25 more than the spot price for gold (last week's closing: $510). Throughout the years the South Africans had a virtual corner on the small-investor gold market, selling an estimated 1 million Krugerrands in the U.S. annually. But competition has been getting stronger. Last year the Canadian government began selling its 1-oz. Gold Maple Leaf, and this spring the Mexicans started promoting the Centenario. Beginning this month Americans will also be able...
...halt in foreign investment may not induce the Chilean regime to change its policies, Mary L. O'Connor, who has prepared reports on corporate activity in Chile for the Investor Responsibilty Research Center, a Washington consulting firm, said yesterday...