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...value rises just one-half point, he earns $500. Bond dealers are made or broken by their ability to predict instinctively how much "retail buyers" will be willing to pay. The fractional prices change rapidly, pushed up and down by such factors as bank interest rates, stock dividend rates, rumors of increased Government borrowing, the state of U.S. business and the bond market's elusive "mood." Few dealers had sharper instincts or better knowledge of the market's subtle ripples than Christopher J. Devine, a New Jersey fireman's son who founded his own firm...
...climate. To raise $1.2 billion of the $3.3 billion that it will spend this year to grow and modernize-an alltime high for any company-A.T. & T. recently gave its investors a chance to buy an additional 12,241,000 shares, at the same time increasing the yearly dividend on the present shares from $3.60 to $4 and declaring a two-for-one split effective in June. Stockholders responded with a remarkable show of faith in a company that speaks for so much of the U.S. economy. Three out of five of them bought the extra shares that they...
...pizazz phenomenon that has gripped Detroit since 1962. Its radically different roof not only offers a sportier look than the Valiant, but the car has as standard equipment many of the optional features, such as bucket seats, that buyers have been clamoring to pay extra money for. Another necessary dividend: the Barracuda's huge window is tinted to prevent its back-seat passengers from frying...
Corporations have many ways to demonstrate strength, from capital expansion to dividend increases, but the stock split is becoming one of the most popular. During all of last year, 43 companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange split their stock, exchanging each share for two or more new ones whose total value equaled the original. In 1964's first quarter alone, 43 Big Board companies have done the split, including RCA, Pan American, Campbell Soup and A.T. & T.,*whose 2-for-l split next month will be the biggest division of stock in history. Last week Caterpillar Tractor...
...share down to the 30s-the range at which many experts believe that the public is most attracted to a stock. Other companies feel that for prestige purposes their stock should sell at a higher price, and in this case might split only 2 for 1. Ideally, the dividend should be raised at the same time. "If the dividend is halved on each share in a 2-for-l split," says RCA Executive Vice President Robert L. Werner, "the split is meaningless...