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...microchip industry worldwide is mired in a slump, with prices falling and many factories closing. But Chang, chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., posted third-quarter earnings that were better than expected. He believes the rebound has begun, and he announced a $20 billion expansion. Chang, 70, an avid contract-bridge player educated at Stanford and MIT, founded TSMC in 1987 and has made it the industry leader...
...Crimson had few scoring opportunities during that game other than the one opportunistic goal. The team has struggled to find the net during its 2-4 slump, scoring just five goals in its last six games after scoring 23 in its first nine games...
...team feels it has something to prove after finishing fourth in the league. Each of the past two seasons, the Crimson has beaten tough competition to start the year before fading during the final stretch of the regular season. The team recovered from a similar slump last year, and Gunther believes the Crimson can do it again...
Some economists are worried that the hardship suffered by these invisible jobless could worsen the economic slump as they cut back their spending on everything from clothing to car payments. "Any stimulus package that doesn't reach these workers who are buffeted by the recent changes needs to be altered so that it does," says Jared Bernstein, a labor economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a union-backed think tank in Washington...
...shock, then, that the share of earnings that S&P 500 companies pay as cash dividends has eroded steadily since the past recession, in 1991. Then companies paid out 75% of earnings as dividends. The ratio fell to an all-time low of 33% last year. Amid the current slump, some companies have cut their dividends?and others might join them as their profits get squeezed. Yet here's why dividend-paying stocks might come back...