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The Speaking of Dividends column in this weekend's Barron's (see here) talked about stocks with high dividend yields, and the possibility that the high yield could mean something other than a cheap stock.  When you look at a list of the largest US electric utilities you can see that there are nam

Page 36 of the February 1 issue of Fortune had an article discussing the amount  of cash US companies hold abroad, and what might happen if tax rules were changed to encourage more of the money to come home. (see article here)  I mentioned this issue back in a December 31 blog post (see here), bu

Page 9 of the 12/26/16 issue of Barron's (see here) discussed share buybacks in the third quarter in the S&P 500.  The S&P 500 companies bought back $116B of stock during the period, which was a 28% drop below Q3 2015 according to Factset.  It turns out that utilities were a minuscule cont