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| Subject: Interest Rates The cost of borrowing money, that may be made reference to in securities transactions and financial product terms. US Equity Market By John Schroy, on March 8th, 2006 |  Leave a comment  Over the last five quarters, the annual rate of dividends paid by US non-financial corporations has fallen by two-thirds, from $462.2 billion to $160.5 billion. The apparent reason for this negative trend is the intent of corporate management to radically increase stock buybacks in order to boost the value of executive options. March 8th, 2006 | Print Article |  Email Article |  Topics: Corporate Governance, dividends, executive stock options, Interest Rates, intrinsic value, John Burr Williams, market manipulation, mutual funds, price earnings ratios, Stock Buybacks | Category: US Equities | Leave a comment |  Short urlInvestment 1995 - 2004 By John Schroy, on February 27th, 2006 | Leave a comment  In 1995, US households held similar amounts of assets in home equity and corporate stocks: US$ 4.3 trillion in stocks and US$ 4.7 trillion in home equity. Over the decade, the situation changed dramatically, so that by 2004, households held US$ 4.8 trillion more in home equity than in corporate stocks. This difference came about because of the crash in the stock market in 2000-2001 and because of the steady increase in home values throughout the decade. Low interest rates and easier terms on home mortgages pushed prices of residential real estate upwards, while individuals favored indirect investment in stocks through mutual funds over direct holdings. February 27th, 2006 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: Interest Rates, Mortgage-backed Securities, mutual funds, Real Estate, sub-prime mortgages | Category: Real Estate | Leave a comment | Short urlUS Trade Deficit By John Schroy, on March 31st, 2005 | Leave a comment  Since the 1980s, the US. trade deficit has been a constant force in the American economy, rising more some years than others, while corporate bond yields have been generally falling. Because rising trade deficits lead to increased demand for fixed income securities, and because issuers have not fully met this demand, the price of bonds has risen for twenty years, while bond yields have fallen. March 31st, 2005 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: Benjamin Graham, central bank, deindustrialization, demographics, Globalization, gold standard, Inflation, Interest Rates, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Johnson, oil, Real Estate, Richard Nixon, US Treasury, Vietnam | Category: US Trade Deficit | Leave a comment | Short urlFeatured articles on inside pages
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