We follow Fama and French (2001) in calling firms “payers” if they pay cash dividends and “non-payers” if they do not. For all descriptors shown in Table2the mean differences between payers to common only and payers to common and/or preferred were insignificantly different from zero. We...
Yet with the FED in charge, all profits or “dividends” paid to the holders of Federal Reserve stock from interest paid on government securities and the National Debt go to banking interests, not the American people. That has got to change. Our money system was designed to do the work of...
“Yield to maturity” –that’s the key term here. If you buy the bond today at 75 cents on the dollar, so $750 for a bond with a face value of $1,000, you will get $27 a year in coupon interest (the 2.7% per year of the $1,000 face value). So at a cost...
There are only two choices that can be made in a presidential election in which the incumbent runs for another term: 1) to affirm the county’s choice made four years prior by continuing the county’s current trajectory or, 2) to repudiate the choice made four years ago and move the cou...
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages found in shorter-term mortgage loans. What are the drawbacks of distributing dividends instead of retained earnings? a. What is the basic advantage of depreciation? b. All else the same, would a firm generally...
Repaying these loans will be a top priority for airlines once the pandemic is over. Dividends make the airline's stock more attractive, while buybacks let airlines take stock out of the market to improve its stakeholder's ownership stake and — in some situations — to improve the airline'...
Its board of directors have for decades prioritised short term profitability over long term investment in the business. In short, they’ve spent the last few decades running the company into the ground. By contrast, Nucor (another US steel company) which invested heavily in these new ...
Post Office, Jim Rutt is said to have first used the phrase ‘snail mail’ in 1981, and the term spread from there. Created in the 1980s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Zephyr Notification System was used for early text messaging. 1981: High-definition, lemon law Daniel ...
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The shareholders have very limited rights and the dividends they receive are effectively capped by law. Effectively, the shares are closer to preferred shares than to common stocks. Central bank reserve accumulation tends to be negative for its returns, since it has to effectively take on a ...