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Closing Update for Thursday, Oct. 1: Dow's Big Plunge

Listen to the TechTicker piece from the guy predicting a huge bull run for the next 10 years, ending at double today's (maybe yesterday's) Dow.
Perfect timing on his part wouldn't you say.

Focusing on BP for Its Net Payout Yield

Some of us are retired and live on dividends. Getting 6% - 12% dividends and not drawing on your IRA is better than depending on a retirement from some huge manufacturer who perhaps will go bankrupt someday and stop the gravey train.

Are Gasoline Prices Really Declining?

Wow, I can't believe peoples memory is so short that they can't remember that it has been a yearly ritual in this country. The price of gasoline goes up and down with the holiday seasons. Every Memorial Day that I can remember, and I can remember a lot of them, the price of gas has jumped in anticipation of families getting out camping and fishing after the long winter. Same thing for Fourth of July and Labor Day.

I remember taking my daughter to summer camp and stopping at the "friendly" local gas station to top off, only to find that gas had jumped $0.20 that night because Iraq had invaded Kuweit over night (twenty cents was a lot more then).

This isn't news folks. It has been going on for years.

Four Companies That Will Benefit from DOE's Nuclear Power Plant Loan Guarantees

I don't believe we will see nuclear power in this country in our lifetime. I live in Washington (not that one - the state) where millions were wasted in the 70' because of the NIMB's and morons, the over engineering and massive record keeping, the lawyers that kept creating lawsuits that finally bankrupt WPPS. I'm sure that some remember that fiasco. This is just a ploy by our members of congress to create the appearance of doing something useful while avoiding actually accomplishing anything. You know, just throw a lot of crap in the air and while we are all running for cover our congress will be dodging the real issues.

Oil: Up to $200 or Down to $25?

"It has been the speculators who have taken over the market since December and ramped oil prices back up..."

BS, this is mostly just the usual price manipulation.

A Poor Man's CEF Portfolio That Performs

Thanks very much. You have validaed my plan for retirement which I began in Nov 07. I'm getting my full SS retirement and my wife gets half as much as I do. Our dividend income is about 20% more than we receive from SSA and we are living very well, thank you.

Pacific Ethanol Files for Bankruptcy Protection for Four Plants

Yes, and there's another fine mess we can all thank Bush for. What a jerk!

China Looks to Electrify Our Cars

Anyone remember that Ford, I believe it is, that has a very successful diesel car in Europe which they won't bring to the US because they think that people here are anti-diesel.

What arrogant fools these are that distroyed the diesel car market in the US in the late 80's with their remanufactured Olds gasoline engine/diesel engines. They think that we can't try another diesel to gain mileage with clean diesel technology developed since.

I don't want us to go out of the auto business because there are fools running the great auto manufactures in this country and I don't want to abandone the American made car. I applaude the efforts of the Obama administration with the tough love treatment they are giving Ford, GM and Chrysler

Beware 'Dividend Aristocrats' that Actually Offer Low Yields, No Real Income

I find it completely amazing how many intelligent investors don't understand the concept of dividvend investing. Some of these folks must be "Day Traders".

The Cleantech Crunch Is On

Try proof reading next time. That would make your article much easier to read.

The High Dividend Stock Investor's Collapsing Dollar Survival Guide, Part 5

I'm a little suprised that no one has mentioned Oil and Gas Trusts for income. My retirement plan has, for some years, been to invest in hi-yield issues and I have found that Trusts are an excellent source. Now that I have retired, my plan is working very well, even in this recession market time.

Try this plan:
Take your social security for both you and your wife, add any retirement that you might have coming from your working years and your should be nearly up to half of your pre-retirement income. To maximize the benefit, work to full retirement (67) if possible.
All of us being investors in this forum, I will assume that everyone will have a nest egg to work with when we reach retirement age. Invest your nest egg in Hi Div stocks from all sources, and I don't mean the hi div's that the "advisers" talk about. You know, like 0.5% or maybe even 1.3% (those guys drive me nuts). Look in the industrial sectors, natural resources or utililties, something that pays more than the 4 - 5% recommended that you withdraw from your IRA each year. It isn't really very hard to get more than the 4 - 5% and this will filling the remainder of your required income for retirement. Check out Harry Domash's Dividend Detective website for a starter in your search for Hi Dividends.
Now, of course, this advise is for the working stiff, not the CEO's among us and certainly not the Madoff's of the world. Study hard and be careful. Happy and prosperous retirement.

The High Dividend Stock Investor's Collapsing Dollar Survival Guide, Part 3

Sorry that I'm getting into the discussion so late. I have owned NAT for a couple of years and I think that you need to go to their website and read about their model. They distribute 90% of their earnings each quarter to their stockholders. Their ships are leased out on the "Spot Market" for the going rate which fluctuates. They tell us that the operating cost for their tankers is under $10,000 per day and the spot market varies between around $40,000 and $80,000 per day. The only time the dividend goes down is when the "Spot Market" goes down. NAT doesn't just set an arbitrary sum as their didvidend, it is all based on income.

Dow and Rohm & Haas - Why They Go Well Together

The DOW CEO sounds like a MORON to me. Where do they get these guys? The market was headed for the hole for 2/3 of last year and he makes an offer like this with no way out of it. No allowance for the "unforseen" developments. Then runs into the board room and closes the door, refusing to even talk to ROH. What kind of a "business man" would do that?

The whole mess make me ill. and down 75%. I'm getting less hopful of a satisfactory conclusion all the time.

How John Thain Lost $15 Billion

I don't know. Where did all of this come from? I just finished working for 47 years and I got a bonus from time to time, you know, $1000, $3000, once I even got a $5000 bonus for the work that I did durning the year and my contribution. It is beyond my imagination the a guy, even the CEO of a major investment back, who makes several mil per year could earn a $15 mil bonus. I even heard that he paid his driver $280K per year. How much did he give the pions under who worked on the floors below him?

The arragance of these jerks is incomprihesable. What happened to the Board of Directors? Don't they over see things like this? Oh, I forgot, they are CEO's too. They all get the same benefits.

Meanwhile, the share holders get a $ .03 dividend. When I grow up I want to be a CEO.

Chevron: Currently Cheap and a Possible Winner In an Economic Turnaround

"This intersection is saying that the market now believes that CVX is over valued and is likely to cut its dividend to return to a more normal spread versus the T-Bond."

This is not what is met by the intersection of these two lines. It only indicates the extreme measures that the treasury has taken to add liquidity to the economy. I don't disagree on the thrust of the article. I too am a dividend investor and an energy investor. I'm hopful that the ecomony will turn around in '09 and I believe that energy (oil, coal, nat gas and clean) will lead the way.

Best to all for the New Year.