Sure, AIG turned in the worst underwriting results among the nation's big insurers — paying out nearly 30% more on claims and expenses than it received in premiums.

虽然作为美国最大保险公司之一的AIG经历了最糟糕的时期——比索赔多支付了30%和保险上的费用。

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That's a reason they were willing to buy shares paying out little or nothing.

这正是他们愿意买进低派息或无派息股票的原因之一。

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More importantly, the industry-wide practice of paying out about half of net revenues to employees looks a lot less palatable for shareholders once mediocre or bad banks are taken into account.

更重要的是，如果将业绩平庸甚至糟糕的银行都考虑进去的话，全体投行业支付近一半的净营业收入作为职员报酬这一做法显然远远不能令股东们舒坦。

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President Obama says the U.S.tax code is cheating the United States out of good-paying jobs and badly needed funds.

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There are some spikes up like, for example, in--what year--that was 1921 maybe--this year, this is 1932 or 1933--the companies were paying out 160% of their earnings as dividends.

这里几处激增,例如,这是哪年,1921,那年,1932或者1933,公司付出了,收益的160倍作为股利

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They want to make sure that there's a significantly high probability-- sufficiently high probability-- that even if they get a bad draw and there are a lot policies that require paying out, that these reserves will satisfy.

他们想要确保,即使保险公司遇上严重事件,面临大量的保单赔付,他们仍然有充分能力,来应付这种状况,也就是说准备金必须足够多

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"If dividend-paying stocks become out of favor and you see prices drop for utilities and consumer-staples stocks and telecoms just because dividend taxation has gone up, look at that as an opportunity to invest at higher yields and lower prices, " Mr. Peters says.

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So which college majors are most likely to land you a well-paying job right out of school?

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Conceptually, I like stocks yielding 6% that are paying out two-thirds or less of earnings so "T" qualifies.

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