Second, British companies operate with lower capital stocks than many of their competitors, and their lorries have to drive on heavily congested roads.
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?
Boomers had plentiful capital in stocks during the collapse of 2001 to 2002.
If investors want to play the world growth story, should they be rushing out and buying capital goods stocks?
Some banks invested as much as 75% of their capital in stocks.
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.
Boomers had plentiful capital in stocks during the collapse of 2001--02.
Capital goods stocks led the market higher this morning.
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Furthermore, the market is demonstrating some fear that has been largely absent for the past 14 months, which means an investor must think twice before devoting more capital to stocks in this market climate.
Although Slothower cautions his subscribers to wait until the market reacts to the Fed's rate cut before committing new capital to stocks, he's recently bought generic-drug maker Alpharma (nyse: ALO - news - people ).
Capital goods stocks also posted gains.
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The new reduced 18% tax rate applies to capital gains on stocks purchased after Jan. 1, 2001 and held for five years.
We could start with a little mind experiment: imagine that interest and bonds were tax free in their returns, but that dividends and capital gains on stocks were taxed at 100%?
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Warren Buffett, chairman and top shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRKa - news - people ), for one, has criticized this system, saying capital gains on stocks held for less than a year should be taxed at 100%.
For years the conventional wisdom around bank stocks is that once the mortgage mess was worked off and capital concerns abated the stocks would trade based on their earnings potential of their banking franchises.
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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The Fed will gather data from big banks and determine if they have enough capital to pay out dividends to goose their stocks higher, or enough capital to repurchase stock so higher earnings-per-share metrics makes them attractive.
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Equally, there are a variety of other matters that have had change in that time from capital punishment to the stocks.
But a slide into a second recession would require firms to cut back again on stocks, capital spending and jobs.
Generous dividend boosts and steady capital gains made these stocks defy the short-selling community, including some high-profile doubters like David Einhorn who questioned the business model.
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).
Sosnoff and Atalanta Sosnoff Capital own none of the stocks cited in this commentary.
Stocks have more capital appreciation upside with the extra bonus that many pay more than 2.25% dividend yield.
An ideal place would be a taxable brokerage account where you can buy individual stocks and harvest capital losses for the tax benefits.
As DFA explains to its investors, managing a portfolio for tax benefits centers on minimizing your capital gain tax exposure when stocks are sold.
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The AIM market, unlike NASDAQ, uses a market maker, a representative firm that uses a series of factors to determine and set a fair share price for stocks like Sky Capital Holdings, which had a low share trading volume.
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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.
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