US economy turning?

Charles Jannuzi jannuzi at edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp
Wed Jan 9 00:19:52 PST 2002


If I might revive this one (and go over my daily limit of 3):

Doug wrote earlier


> >In the third quarter of 2001, U.S. >corporations paid out over 88% of
> >their profits in dividends, the >highest payout ratio since the >early
> 1930s (when firms continued >paying dividends even though they >were
losing
> money).
> >Doug

Has then been much movement in the area of stock buy backs in the past two quarters?

Charles Jannuzi



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