To be sure, investors cannot focus on yield alone, especially when undervalued stocks offer plenty of capital appreciation potential to go along with generous dividend income streams.
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Some banks invested as much as 75% of their capital in stocks.
Second, British companies operate with lower capital stocks than many of their competitors, and their lorries have to drive on heavily congested roads.
It began its homeward journey back from the outer reaches of gold bullion and wind farms to the productive realm of venture capital and stocks.
If lawmakers are serious about ridding the nation of red ink, they need to look at raising the taxes paid on the sale of corporate stocks, or the capital gains tax.
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Cost-of-capital: Sinai says that when stocks are up, companies can raise the same amount of money by selling fewer shares, which makes it easier to fund expansion.
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Economists will confirm that not only the return differentials within capital itself (bonds versus stocks to keep it simple) but the division of GDP between capital, labor and government can significantly advantage one sector versus the other.
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Further, he gives so much to charity, he gets big deductions on the full market value of the stocks he gives away, most of which are unrealized and therefore untaxed capital gains.
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If a trustee had invested in growth stocks, much of it could qualify as capital gains, taxed at half the rate.
With the financial press slapping recession fears on page one, day after day, is it any wonder that not only raw materials stocks plumb new 1-year lows but capital goods stocks like US Steel sell at one third of year ago high water marks?
He insists that the traditional system of floor-based traders who make markets in assigned stocks and step in and put up their own capital in times of extreme volatility, like Tuesday, will stick around.
You look at the universe of stocks you want to trade and realize that trading AAPL takes up too much of your capital so you look for something more reasonable.
Sosnoff and Atalanta Sosnoff Capital own none of the stocks cited in this commentary.
Are you thinking about bailing out of stocks before year-end while the capital gains rate is low?
Boomers had plentiful capital in stocks during the collapse of 2001 to 2002.
Unlike an S-corporation owner, someone who invests in stocks can delay tax by delaying the realization of capital gains.
"We've taken it all the way down to ... about 15 percent stocks, " says Flynn, of Flynn Zito Capital Management.
Boomers had plentiful capital in stocks during the collapse of 2001--02.
There isn't an actively managed U.S. mutual fund that invests solely in Australia, but there is an exchange-traded fixed basket of Aussie stocks, the Ishares Morgan Stanley Capital Index Australia Index Fund from Barclays Global Investors.
The efforts of hedge funds like NIR Group and Laurus Capital Management to turbocharge their returns by focusing on penny stocks and PIPEs have been the subject of several articles in Forbes over the last three years.
But the net flow of capital is, ultimately, heavily into stocks.
Here is a better way to value stocks: First, the investor should weigh the cost of capital against the firm's stream of current and future free cash flows to determine the asset's value.
If you have taken money out of the market and have it parked in a money market fund, think about putting a portion of your money market fund holdings into stocks like American Capital Agency Corp. (AGNC) to improve your yield.
No grand vision that will divert capital flows from the safe harbors of dividend stocks, government bonds and commodities and toward innovation and entrepreneurs.
Since mid-1999 the U.S. and Japanese markets and the Morgan Stanley Capital International EAFE Index of European and Asian stocks are all off between 13% and 22%.
The stirrings of modern finance sprouted in the Dutch Republic where stocks and other complex capital formations afforded widespread affluence.
Wall Street presumes that commodity notes held for more than a year get the same lenient capital gains treatment as stocks and bonds (a top rate of 15% at the moment).
Over the past two decades, emerging market countries and companies have increasingly looked to the private capital markets (i.e. the issuing of stocks and bonds) for larger-scale funding and away from their traditional reliance on syndicated commercial bank loans and Western government financing vehicles.
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Since the 1980's, emerging market economies, like those of China and Russia, have become increasingly sophisticated in the way they finance their respective governments and affiliated companies -- transitioning from reliance on syndicated commercial bank loans and Western government funding vehicles to the private capital markets (i.e. the issuance of stocks and bonds).
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They invest in well-conceived mixtures of stocks and bonds so as to benefit from economic growth while also preserving capital.
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