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...Bush's stock-dividend tax-rate cut in early June when Corus Bankshares in Chicago voted to triple its annual payout. CEO Robert Glickman said the move was "solely in reaction" to the new tax treatment and that he was "very pleased" to provide shareholders with a beefy new payment. Little wonder. The Glickman family owns half the company, and his 25% stake in the bank will generate $5.8 million in annual after-tax income, up from $1.3 million...
Tired of paying a bill to pay your bills online? Many Bank One customers now don't have to. Starting this month, most customers will no longer fork over the $4.95 monthly fee the bank charges for online bill payment. Bank One is just the latest to drop the fee. When Bank of America stopped charging in 2002, the number of people using the service more than doubled, to 2.4 million. Citibank, National City and Fifth Third Bank are among others that don't charge. --By Barbara Kiviat
...bond-market slump pushed the average 30year fixed-rate mortgage to 5.94% last week, up from an all-time low of 5.21% in June. Home buyers need to recalculate how posh a place they can afford. "Are you ready for an increased monthly payment?" asks Anthony Hsieh, CEO of HomeLoanCenter.com...
...have to deal with the Uzans," claims Radikal columnist Berkan. Bizarrely, state-owned companies continue to go Uzan's way. In June the family won yet another privatization bid, this one for the petroleum company Petkim, though it's unclear how it will come up with the down-payment by August's deadline. Yet no one denies that Uzan's far-right nationalist Youth Party is a political threat. Support has risen in internal polls from 7% to 17% in the past eight months. A minimum of 10% is needed to win seats in parliament. Analysts attribute the spike...
...arbitrary power" to "reduce them under absolute despotism," and he took out the literary flourish in Jefferson's "invade and deluge us in blood" to make it more sparse: "invade and destroy us." And a few of his changes seemed somewhat pedantic. "Amount of their salaries" became "amount and payment of their salaries...