Howard Silverblatt
Howard Silverblatt
Howard Da Silvawas an American actor, director and musical performer on stage, film, television and radio. He was cast in dozens of productions on the New York stage, appeared in more than two dozen television programs, and acted in more than fifty feature films. Adept at both drama and musicals on the stage, he appeared in the original 1943 run of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!, and also portrayed the prosecuting attorney in the 1957 stage production of Compulsion...
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Given the historically slow pace of change for dividends, the growth in dividend payers since January 2003 has been remarkable. Unlike the prior 20 years when the number of paying issues actually declined by 25%, since the start of 2003 the number of paying issues within the S&P 500 issues has risen by 10% to 386. For the remainder of 2006, we expect a continuation in both dividend increases and initiations among S&P 500 constituents, resulting in another double-digit gain in dividend payments.
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Unlike pensions, which are regulated, OPEB has no legal requirement to create a trust entity to fund the current and future costs. Additionally, specific tax treatments and credits set up to encourage pension funding do not exist for OPEB funds.
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We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously going to increase, and it will hurt consumer spending.
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The aim of the S&P 500 is to emulate the entire market, not necessarily do better than the market. If we beat the overall market, we're not doing our job.
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For the companies, to bring the money back at this rate was a no-brainer. Even if they were not planning to make use of the money immediately, when faced with the option of tapping the funds at a 5 percent tax instead of 35 percent, most of them just decided to do it -- it makes sense.
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For the companies, to bring the money back at this rate was a no-brainer, ... Even if they were not planning to make use of the money immediately, when faced with the option of tapping the funds at a 5 percent tax instead of 35 percent, most of them just decided to do it -- it makes sense.
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The idea that they would pay a dividend was a changing of the guard.
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All the big effects of the hurricane didn't happen.