Archive for September, 2008

posted by Yahoo! News Search Results for dividends on Sep 30

The Boards of Directors of Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Fund Incorporated (NYSE: PFD) and Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund Incorporated (NYSE: PFO) have announced a delay in the payment of the monthly dividends for the month of September.

posted by Yahoo! News Search Results for dividends on Sep 30

The Boards of Directors of Flaherty & Crumrine/Claymore Preferred Securities Income Fund Incorporated (NYSE: FFC) and Flaherty & Crumrine/Claymore Total Return Fund Incorporated (NYSE: FLC) have announced a delay in the payment of the monthly dividends for the month of September.

posted by Yahoo! News Search Results for dividends on Sep 30

The Boards of Directors of Flaherty Crumrine/Claymore Preferred Securities Income Fund Incorporated (NYSE: FFC) and Flaherty Crumrine/Claymore ...

posted by Yahoo! News Search Results for dividends on Sep 30

PASADENA, Calif.----The Boards of Directors of Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Fund Incorporated and Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund Incorporated have announced a delay in the payment of the monthly dividends for the month of September.

posted by Yahoo! News Search Results for dividends on Sep 30

PASADENA, Calif. & LISLE, Ill.----The Boards of Directors of Flaherty & Crumrine/Claymore Preferred Securities Income Fund Incorporated and Flaherty & Crumrine/Claymore Total Return Fund Incorporated have announced a delay in the payment of the monthly dividends for the month of September.

posted by Yahoo! News Search Results for dividends on Sep 29

DEAR ABBY: I wrote your mother back in 1985, asking her to encourage my eighth-grade students to establish the wonderful habit of reading. My letter was published in The Portland Oregonian.

posted by Yahoo! News Search Results for dividends on Sep 29

DEAR ABBY: I wrote your mother back in 1985, asking her to encourage my eighth-grade students to establish the wonderful habit of reading. My letter was published in The Portland Oregonian.

posted by Yahoo! News Search Results for dividends on Sep 29

The boards of directors of Puget Energy (NYSE:PSD) and Puget Sound Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary, today declared quarterly dividends on the company's common and preferred stock.

posted by Adam Pasick on Sep 29

How exactly did the U.S. Treasury come up with the $700 billion price tag for its bailout package, recently known in the financial blogosphere as “the Splurge”?

“It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com last week. “We just wanted to choose a really large number.”

Well, that’s reassuring.

UPDATE: It seems that HBO’s Bill Maher first coined the term “The Splurge,” as seen in this YouTube video. Thanks to Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, an early proponent of the phrase.

posted by Yahoo! News Search Results for dividends on Sep 29

PRATTVILLE -- Dean Argo had been on the Prattville City Council for a month back in 1996 when he and his colleagues were presented with an expensive proposition.