The SPDR Barclays Capital Mortgage Backed Bond ETF ( MBG) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the U.S. agency mortgage pass-through sector of the U.S. investment grade bond market.
And while the Democratically-controlled U.S. Senate says that it will pass there, the same cannot be said for the Republican-controlled U.S. House.
It turns out that more than half of taxable business income in the U.S. is earned by pass-through companies such as partnerships and S corporations.
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Nigerian who managed to bypass security and fly across the U.S. with a day-old boarding pass, I got to thinking about boarding pass security and what the TSA can do about it if they would just use their imagination.
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In an after-dinner speech Tuesday to U.S. businessmen, Lee Hsien Loong made a couple of jokes that could pass for stand-up comedy.
The news came as two other central Asian nations -- Tajikistan and Uzbekistan -- reportedly agreed to let U.S. cargo pass through their countries on the way to Afghanistan.
Before he leaves his post, Rumsfeld will pass Robert McNamara as the longest-serving U.S. defense chief.
Peter Merrill, a principal at the accounting firm of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, argues that the shift to pass-through companies may be the single most important reason why U.S. corporate tax revenues are so low.
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The average state and local effective tax rate on telecom services--some of which is paid directly by customers and some of which is levied on the companies, who then pass on the cost--is 14.17% throughout the U.S., compared to 6.12% for general businesses, according to the COST study.
Debora Plunkett, of the secretive National Security Agency, whose responsibilities include protecting U.S. government computer networks, predicted earlier this month that Congress would pass long-stalled cybersecurity legislation within the next year.
What does it mean for the present--for Turkey and for U.S. interests in the region, should such a bill pass?
Late Friday, Republican Members of Congress indicated they would not object to a three-month increase to the U.S. debt ceiling, which provides the time required to pass a budget.
In less than five short years the number of U.S. households with a Wi-Fi network has gone from zero to 4.3 million, and you can barely pass a street corner in any big U.S. city without seeing a public Wi-Fi hot spot.
Continental Airlines Inc. said earlier this week that it was expanding its mobile boarding-pass service to Frankfurt Airport, becoming the first American carrier to offer paperless boarding passes outside the U.S. The service allows customers to receive boarding passes electronically on their cell phones or PDAs, Continental said.
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