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Exelon Corporation (EXC) Exelon Corporation operates 17 nuclear power plants. There are several advantages to nuclear power over other methods of generating electricity. Number one: it's cheaper—once the plants are built and up and running. It's also much less polluting and, looking forward, to quote Value Line: "Exelon's nuclear plants will become even more valuable if climate change legislation is enacted that would...

Footnotes contain more obvious (to mathematicians) jokes, such as one that comments: Just as liberal feminists are frequently content with a minimal agenda of legal and social equality for women and 'pro-choice', so liberal (and even some socialist) mathematicians are often content to work within the hegemonic Zermelo-Fraenkel framework (which, reflecting its nineteenth-century liberal origins, already incorporates the axiom of...

Hi hoosier, when they took the NOL write down at the end of the year I thought it was about $5-$6/shr., $2/shr sounds way to low, where did you get that number from? Alex Scherer (aka TMFEnochRoot) sent me an email after my latest coverage post on the Stock Advisor board. I was adding the full value of the NOLs to the book value, and he cautioned me against double-counting. Here's his explanation: When NOL's have been written off...

Hi k and all, http://moneycentral.msn.com/news/ticker/sigdev.aspx?Symbol=N... North American Galvanizing & Coatings Completes Private Placement August 26, 2009 North American Galvanizing & Coatings announced that effective August 21, 2009 the Company completed its previously reported private placement of 10% subordinated notes and warrants to purchase shares of common stock. The Company raised $7.3 million in gross...

But a yield of 2.1%, which is likely to be chopped down to 1.785% if held in a IRA, shouldn't be a deciding factor to the exclusion of the value and potential gains of the equity that produces those dividends. Agreed. Mike

An example always helps. US tax rate 15%, foreign tax rate 20%, dividend amount $100 In taxable account: you will pay $20 to foreign govt you will get a net credit of $5 from US ( $15 - $20 credit) your net tax paid is $15. In non-taxable account: you will pay $20 to foreign govt. you owe $0 to US and forgo the credit. your net tax paid is $20. So in non-taxable account you pay $5 more in tax. If US and foreign tax rates are both 15%, you may...

What follows is a dissection of the $2.5 billion loss (in millions) for Leucadia in 2008: Tax Asset Write-off $1,672.1 Mark Down of Investment Securities and Associated Company Losses $680.2 Corporate Interest Expense $140.1 Consolidated Business Results $20.9 All Other, Net $22.1

After looking at the Value Line report on NGA I had the same question as Kelbon. Results in recent years (e.g. revenue trends, NPM, cash flow etc.) are strikingly better than prior years. Is this change sustainable? Looking at the 10-K filings I note: "2005 COMPARED TO 2004 SALES---Sales for the year ended December 31, 2005 increased 34% over the prior year due primarily to contribution from the Canton, Ohio galvanizing facility that...

oops.. I forgot a bit at the start and end of that post. Hi All, AP long ZINC

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