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High Yielding Stocks Going Ex-Dividend in January

This "strategy" is a myth.

The Exchange lowers the share price of a dividend stock the exact amount of the dividend on the ex-date. So, for example, if a stock is set to open at, say, $10.00, and the dividend is .25, then the stock will be reduced .25 and open at $9.75.

Of course, from there, the stock may go up or down. If it goes up quickly over .25, then it "looks like" someone just got a free dividend, but that's not what happened at all.

Sorry, but someone said once, "If it looks too good to be true....

Comcast's Internet Cap Debate

A Comcast cable installer told me the company is jerry-rigging to save money, and the infrastructure is in bad shape.

There is no competition where I live, cable wise, so its Comcast or satellite only. That's not what I would call a "choice."

As the author pointed out, they are putting the screws to the users (and this is just the beginning) in order to maintain control. They have a conflict of interest internally between cable TV and high speed access, which is like getting hungry and eating your own foot. This is inefficient and stupid, and typical of what "the market" does when individual companies have too much local control.

I don't know why no other ISPs are available on Comcast's lines, but you can bet that Comcast wants to keep it that way, and will do so if they can get away with it. (When I lived in San Diego, you had a choice of four ISPs over the Time Warner lines - this is the way it should be.)

If anyone is stupid enough to think the "Market" is efficient is taking care of these kinds of issues, when there isn't enough competition, I feel sorry for your attempts to make money in the marketplace.

And User 208762, you are really naive. You think Comcast is going to lower their prices for users who use less bandwidth? What planet where you raised on? HD Video is coming full bore over the internet and today's speeds and capacity will soon look like the old days of 28.8 modems. Open your mind and start looking long term. You sound like a corporate puppet.

We should all be very careful about the idea that what's good for Comcast is good for us. It isn't. Bandwidth caps and tiered pricing will make them richer, but will lesson the experience of the internet for the rest of us. These companies should be indentured to us, not us to them.