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- Dow Chemical Confims Loans To Be Repaid Early
- "Davidson" Makes A Case for International REIT's
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Don't know whether to laugh, cry or become a criminal after reading this as the chance of the SEC catching me is virtually nothing...
SEC Madoff Report 
I just love good information coming in from readers, thanks "bhall" for the email.....
Online– Yesterday STORES Magazine released the list of its 50 Favorite Online Retailers of 2009 and we’re happy to announce that www.Sears.com - #10, www.LandsEnd.com - #15 and www.Kmart.com - #23, all made the top 25!
Kmart.com showed the biggest improvement moving from #34 to #23. STORES commented, “Living paycheck to paycheck is a sobering reminder of the need to stretch every dollar. With improved assortments and an easy-to-navigate Web site, Kmart.com provides a value-oriented option.”
STORES Favorite 50 Online Retailers is a list of e-Commerce Web sites as ranked by the consumers who use them. The survey polled 8,635 consumers and asked two open-ended questions: “What Web site do you shop most often for apparel items?” and “What Web site do you shop most often for non-apparel items?” No merchants’ names were listed or suggested. The final list was assembled by... Read the whole entry » 
Still no whiff of a Dow Ag sale from Dow Chemical (DOW)
The Detroit Free Press Reports:
Dow Chemical Co., the largest U.S. chemical maker, said it is ahead of schedule on its plan to repay by year-end a $9.2-billion bridge loan that helped finance the April acquisition of Rohm & Haas Co.
The sale originally announced in May, to reflect inventory values, Bob Plishka, a spokesman at Midland-based Dow, said Tuesday in an interview.
Proceeds will be used to repay the bridge loan, which had a balance of $4.1 billion at the end of June, he said.
CEO Andrew Liveris secured agreements to sell $3.3 billion of assets, including the refining stake, which were among a dozen units valued at as much as $26 billion that the company considered divesting.
The company spent most of a $2.75-billion debt issue in August on payments, trimming the loan's balance to about $2.1 billion, Plishka said.
"We have more gross proceeds due us from definitive divestiture agreements already... Read the whole entry » 
Davidson" submits:
With the 2007’s Total Mortgage level over $14.5Trillion of which more than $11.1Trillion were home mortgages it would be hard to find a stronger connection to the financial system than this. Data from US Census Bureau most current information.
Equity REITs are publicly traded investment vehicles which use mortgage debt in the purchase of investment properties and form the REIT asset class that is used as part of your balanced portfolio. The market capitalization of the Equity NAREIT holdings has grown from 1972’s year end $332Mil to 2007’s year end $288.7Bil. This ~870 fold increase results from a combination of growth and increasing holdings from 12 REITs at inception and to 118 REITs at the end of 2007. Data from http://www.reit.com. At the end of 2008 the Equity NAREIT market capitalization had fallen to $176.2Bil. A comparison of the NAREIT Total Return vs Equity Indices in Chart 1 makes clear that ~94% of returns are derived from dividends which in... Read the whole entry » 
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