Archive for October 20th, 2004

Flow of funds: Non farm, Non financial, Corporate Business Q2 2004

Long-term investors in equities continued to be disadvantaged by corporate executives who favored stock buybacks over cash dividends. If it were not for the practice of distributing earnings as buybacks, instead of as dividends, dividends could have been increased by 176% which would have been greatly to the advantage of long-term investors, rather than speculators, fund […]

Flow of funds: Non financial Business Q2 2004

This sector includes non farm non financial corporate business, farm business, and non corporate non financial business. The primary source of funding for this sector during the second quarter of 2004 was current profits, running at an annual rate of $1,196.8 billion. The next largest source of funding was increased debt in the form of mortgages […]

Flow of funds: Mutual Fund Shares Q2 2004

Net issues of mutual fund shares in the second quarter of 2004 were $118.7 billion. Net issues of mutual fund shares were down from the annual average of $215.2 billion during the last years of the Great Bubble (1999-2000), and the annual average of $282.0 billion during the post-Bubble years (2001 through Q1 of 2004). In […]

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