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...wrist automatically update whenever you arrive in a new city. The transmission network is currently set up only in North America; Microsoft and Swatch hope to roll out the service across Western Europe beginning this spring. It costs a reasonable $150, which includes free news headlines, local weather and stock market updates. An extra $60 enables the Paparazzi to receive instant messages and calendar reminders from a personal computer. And, yes, it also tells time. But don't blame us if people start asking if you're Dick Tracy...
...course, investing in stocks rather than bonds does carry some greater risks. Your return of principal is not guaranteed, and a company can choose to cut its dividend. So how can you tell if a particular dividend payer is a wise investment? Start by looking at dividend yield--the annual payout divided by the stock price. Still, betting on a company solely because it carries a high yield is risky. In mid-October, for instance, department-store company Saks offered a dividend yield above 16%. But the stock had fallen 33% over the previous six months, and uneven sales trends...
...also smart. In a study done last year, fund firm T. Rowe Price compared the return of a $10,000 investment in the S&P 500 stock-index (with dividends reinvested) to a core fixed-income portfolio (Lehman Brothers U.S. Aggregate bond index). Over the 20-year period from 1983 to 2003, both portfolios generated roughly the same amount of income. However, in terms of overall value, the stock portfolio grew to $71,800, the bond portfolio to only...
ZOLLARS The situation with the election, high oil prices, terror and other uncertainties tends to make people nervous. So that might explain the weak stock market and why long-term interest rates have been falling. But from the data we look at, the economy continues to expand pretty well. Our retail and manufacturing business is strong. We're moving a lot of stuff ahead of the holidays. Our retailer customers include Wal-Mart and Home Depot, and they continue to show expanded shipping patterns and plenty of inventory building. They expect a good holiday season...
...become too big for their britches. More often a solid business simply tries to grow too fast. That certainly seems to be the case with Krispy Kreme, the North Carolina doughnut chain that until recently had investors and customers eating out of its hand. In the past year, its stock sank; the company suffered its first loss since going public in 2000; and sales at stores open at least 18 months, which had been regularly posting double-digit gains, went flat...