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  • Methodology For Assessing Sustainability Of American Capital Agency's 18.2% Dividend Yield [View article]
    TBA is a method of shorting a mortgage-backed security. For more info, try googling To Be Announced Dollar Roll.
    May 25 02:09 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    MLPs can generate enough depreciation and expenses to cover most, if not all, of the distributions. So your taxable income could be zero. However, the depreciation lowers your cost basis. If you hold an MLP for a long enough period of time your cost basis can fall to zero. If you sell, then all of the proceeds from the sale would be taxable. I believe it's taxed as ordinary income, but I'm not sure.
    In summary, the tax rates for MLPs are not different, but taxes on distributions may be delayed until you sell the holding.
    May 17 01:56 PM | 2 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • American Capital Agency Corp. Reports A Nightmare Quarter [View article]
    AGNC didn't receive enough ballots to determine if they could issue more shares. They can't count the ballots until they have enough to meet quorum. The delay is to allow shareholders to vote their shares.
    May 4 01:59 PM | 1 Like Like |Link to Comment
  • Vanguard Natural Resources: An Upstream MLP With An 8.80% Yield [View article]
    Albert,
    I owned VNR for the last two months of 2012 and had $116 of UBTI. Can I assume that if I had held VNR for a full year UBTI would have been $696? Is UBTI a stable amount from year to year or can it be zero one year and over a $1000 the next?
    May 3 03:06 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Earnings Preview For BDCs: Q1 2013, Part 2 [View article]
    obgyn,

    BDC Buzz has written a series of articles on the various BDCs. I believe the 2nd article gives good information on analyzing BDCs. Just click on the "Articles" button under his picture.
    May 1 02:55 PM | 1 Like Like |Link to Comment
  • CVR Refining Should Be Bought Right Now [View article]
    du1224,
    If the MLP distributes more than $1000 in Unrelated Business Taxable Income you will have to pay taxes, even if the MLP is held inside an IRA. You may want to google UBTI and MLP.
    Apr 13 02:45 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Brent-WTI Spread Falls To 6-Month Lows [View article]
    Brent prices are for oil from the North Sea that is refined in Europe. WTI prices are for oil that is produced and refined in the US.
    Mar 27 03:51 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Ziopharm Offers High Risk, High Return [View article]
    Any idea as to why the stock fell sharply on March 19?
    Mar 19 05:03 PM | 1 Like Like |Link to Comment
  • Gold: A 'Fundamental' Perspective Of Bottoming 'Fundamentals' [View article]
    Avi, I read your articles every week and was wondering how Elliot Waves could work with such accuracy (but was too lazy to look it up.) Thanks for spoon-feeding the info to me, and please keep it coming.
    Mar 10 03:08 PM | 2 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Reduce Or Eliminate Taxes On American Capital Agency, Other REITS [View article]
    OMG,
    Keep in mind the author recommends doing this IF you have previous short-term losses. If you have no losses to offset this income, you would have to pay taxes on the short-term gains which is the same rate as your ordinary income tax rate.
    Feb 28 06:52 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • S&P 500 And Sector P/E Ratio Charts [View article]
    The articles states that the PE of the SP500 is 14.80 but if you read the vertical axis of the chart, it appears to be greater than 15 -- around 15.25.
    Jan 17 01:55 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • 2 High Yield Picks From The Pages Of This Week's Barron's [View article]
    Keep in mind that MLPs often have unrelated business income. If you receive more than $1000 of UBI inside an IRA, you have to pay taxes on it. I'm not a tax expert but investors should be aware of the Unrealted Business Income Tax before buying MLPs inside an IRA.
    Jan 15 02:59 PM | 1 Like Like |Link to Comment
  • Seadrill: Drilling Deep Into Earnings And Dividends [View article]
    I thought that was a typo so I checked SeaDrill's Q3 report and it states the Board is moving the Q4 payment up because they noticed that a significant number of shareholders are Americans who will be subject to higher taxes in 2013. It's written at the top of page 11.
    http://bit.ly/10Yjyp1

    With no dividend coming in March, I wonder how it will affect the stock price.
    Nov 28 05:02 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Fracked Water, Meet SmartSponge [View article]
    SpongeTech marketed sponges that were infused with soap for household cleaning. That product has nothing to do with this article.
    Nov 27 02:14 PM | 1 Like Like |Link to Comment
  • 7 Rallying Dividend Stocks Being Bought By Hedge Funds [View article]
    According to DividendInvestor.com SKM pays dividends twice per year, a big one in April and a small one in Aug. SA may have calculated the annual distribution using the last dividend. 5.08% is correct.

    http://bit.ly/TorKeH

    Click on "Dividends Paid Through" to view the history of payments.
    Nov 25 12:36 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
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