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...industry is pestilence. There are very few new rooms coming on the market, so you have an industry that has pricing power. Here is an industry that just made money in one of the severest downturns it ever faced. Management got lean and mean. They're poised to benefit. Starwood is a good name in that area. When I look at momentum, I like Intel. When you're not building new capacity and there's still chip demand out there, you start tightening the supply; pricing goes up, and that's where the leverage in the industry is. One area...
...favorable tax treatment, 96 companies initiated or raised dividends in June--10% more than in June of last year and a 32% jump over the 10-year average for that month. A handful of blue-chip companies, including Bank of America, Citigroup, Colgate-Palmolive, Goldman Sachs and Starwood Hotels, boosted their dividends a whopping 30% or more. Some smaller firms have been even more aggressive. Energy company Kinder Morgan has a volatile dividend history but recently raised its annual payout to $1.60 a share--five times what it paid last year and double its biggest dividend in the past decade...
...many forms. Some workers, like Raphaely, have had to swallow outright pay cuts. Others have lost their jobs and, in the tough labor market of today, have had to settle for new ones at less pay. Still others--including employees at such giants as AT&T, Boise Cascade and Starwood Hotels--have had to accept pay freezes that, when rising prices are factored in, amount to reduced compensation. To add insult to injury, companies everywhere are reducing bonuses and overtime and eroding health and pension benefits...
...then this: A survey by Starwood Hotels & Resorts showed that 82% of CEOS admit to cheating at golf. The same percentage hate others who do the same. "We're in a period of corporate Watergate, and Nixons are popping up all over," says John Challenger, CEO of outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas. Qualified executives are turning down CEO offers out of fear they might be taking the helm of a firm about to crumble under some new accounting fraud, impeding the searches of even the cleanest firms. Among those looking for a new CEO are Gap and J. Crew...
...Prime Number 82 percent of high-ranking executives in the U.S. say they cheat at golf, according to a survey by Starwood Hotels & Resorts...