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Dividends
Dividends Dividends and stock repurchases are the two major ways that corporations can distribute cash to shareholders. Dividends may also be distributed in the form of stock (stock dividends and stock splits), scrip (a promise to pay at a future date), or property (typically commodities or goods... Read more |
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dividend
dividend that part of the net earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its stockholders. Dividend disbursements are based on a percentage of the par value of the stock or are a certain sum per share of no-par-value stock. They become payable only when approved by the board of directors and... Read more |
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Preferred Stock
PREFERRED STOCK Stock shares that have preferential rights to dividends or to amounts distributable on liquidation, or to both, ahead of common shareholders. Preferred stock is given preference over common stock. Holders of preferred stock receive dividends at a fixed annual rate. The earnings of... Read more |
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Tontine
TONTINE An organization of individuals who enter into an agreement to pool sums of money or something of value other than money, permitting the last survivor of the group to take everything. The holders of tontine life insurance contracts enter into an agreement to pay premiums for a certain... Read more |
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Common Stock
COMMON STOCK Evidence of participation in the ownership of a corporation that takes the form of printed certificates. Each share of common stock constitutes a contract between the shareholder and the corporation. The owner of a share of common stock is ordinarily entitled to participate in and to... Read more |
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Spin-Off
SPIN-OFF The situation that arises when a parent corporation organizes a subsidiary corporation, to which it transfers a portion of its assets in exchange for all of the subsidiary's capital stock, which is subsequently transferred to the parent corporation's shareholders. When a spin-off occurs,... Read more |
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stock (economics)
stock in finance, instrument certifying to shares in the ownership of a corporation. Bonds are similar evidences of shares in a loan to a corporation. Stock yields no dividends until claims of bondholders have been met. Preferred stock is entitled to dividends of a specified percentage per annum... Read more |
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division
division fundamental operation in arithmetic; the inverse of multiplication. Division may be indicated by the symbol ÷, as in 15 ÷ 3, or simply by a fraction, 15/3. The number that is being divided, e.g. 15, is called the dividend and the number dividing into it, e.g. 3, the divisor.... Read more |
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Social Credit
Social Credit economic plan in Canada, based on the theories of Clifford Hugh Douglas . The central idea is that the problems fundamental to economic depression are those of unequal distribution owing to lack of purchasing power. To solve these difficulties Douglas proposed a system of issuing to... Read more |
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Coupon
COUPON A certificate evidencing the obligation to pay an installment of interest or a dividend that must be cut and presented to its issuer for payment when it is due. Coupons are usually attached to a document, such as a promissory note, bond, share of stock, or a bearer instrument. A coupon is... Read more |
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Paying peace dividend
...shambles which cost the taxpayer another billion or thereby...has become part of the Peace Dividend. The war is over. Nato...everything there. I lost count at three clubs, six...it was their turn to count the score. The contrast... |
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Buildup of uncertainty: Congress could soon debate stockpile...
...Stewardship would gobble up billions in taxpayer money and a chunk of the peace dividend, the redistribution of federal spending from...will not go off accidentally. Second, they count on that same warhead to blow up the way it is... |
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Consumer pays the tab. (petroleum industry taxation) (editorial)
...should come before the taxpayers are required once more...the fruits of global peace be turned to a saving for the U.S. taxpayer, not a boon for government...what is. If there is a peace dividend, it should be reflected...1988. Meanwhile, ... |
 "The Charleston Gazette (Charleston, WV)")
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Milestone: ; End Afghan war now
...and colossal U.S. taxpayer cost - much of the conflict...budgeted to cost U.S. taxpayers $100 billion next year...the street: I can't count the number of times...People think the peace dividend is getting out of Afghanistan...machine, which ... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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CUOMO'S OPPORTUNITY
...bailout should bleed taxpayers and who should...1992. What really counts now, above all...year bleeding of taxpayers. Unlike some advocates...a surcharge on taxpayers but with a surcharge...and too puny a peace dividend. In ... |
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Beware of Election-Year Economics
...s plan would provide taxpayers a $300 credit for each...of the benefits go to taxpayers with incomes exceeding...there's an additional "peace dividend" - more defense cuts...political advantage may not count for much. What matters... |
 "The Economist (US)")
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Bleak upper house. (United States. Congress. Senate) (Lexington)
...cameras to his mother for wasting taxpayers' money. Sometimes, he told...interminable roll calls and quorum counts. At least, that is what they...recent essay defining a true "peace dividend". Such a dividend, he argued, would be a change... |
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Outrage at plans to disband three Scots infantry regiments; Axe hangs over...
...the so-called Northern Ireland peace dividend were met with outrage yesterday...glory, honour, and achievement count for nothing in the face of the...costly asset but we will not save taxpayers' money by weakening the defences... |
 "Special Report with Brit Hume (FOX News)")
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Cheney Breaks Tied Vote in Senate on Bush's Tax Cut Plan
...acceptance of the road map to peace, and hints that he...Twenty-five million taxpayers with children will soon...000 dollars.If you count on income from stock dividends, you'll save money because the dividend tax rate of 38.6 percent...map ... |
 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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The Chicago Tribune Gail MarksJarvis column.
...capital gains and dividends, and gives affluent...2010 still can't count on 529 college...before or later. Taxpayers worried about being...offer investors the peace of mind that they...capital gains/dividend taxes, you can...middle-class ... |
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