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		<title><![CDATA[Higher Yield, Safe Returns: Best Investment Bets]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Money-market funds are now paying next to nothing. Boost your returns by moving some cash into higher-yielding but still relatively safe dividend stocks or bond funds. Here are five stocks and five funds that we like.              ...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator  Operator Instructions. Your first question comes from the line of Frank Louthan with Raymond James. Frank Louthan &#8211; Raymond James Good morning. I got several question sort of all getting around the same thing I can appreciate where can you give me guidance what has...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Emerson Electric Increases Q4 Dividend]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[David I. Templeton submits:  On Tuesday, Emerson Electric EMR announced a 10% increase in the company's fourth quarter dividend. The new quarterly dividend increases to $0.33 per share versus $0.30 per share in the same quarter last year. The projected payout ratio is approximately 40% based on 2009 estimated...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The aggregate dividend payout ratio forecasts aggregate excess returns on both stocks and corporate bonds in post-war US data. Both high corporate profits and high stock prices forecast low excess returns on equities. When the payout ratio is high, expected returns are high. The payout ratio's correlation with business conditions...]]></description>
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