JoKingMe

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JoKingMe posted to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 9:22 PM

Reverse sticker shock...

Imagine that you bought a 30 year T-Bill in 1983 paying 11+% that is maturing today. Now you get <3%!

1977 7.75
1978 8.49
1979 9.28
1980 11.27
1981 13.45
1982 12.76
1983 11.18
1984 12.41
1985 [more]

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JoKingMe replied to the Retire Early CampFIRE board. 9:02 PM

Re: let's talk about sex

Shot 76 today. Only 1 birdie, but won $5.00.

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JoKingMe replied to the Real Estate Inv. Trusts: REITs board. 10:35 PM

Re: Everybody wants to be a REIT

I seem to recall vividly a halloween massacre by the Canadian government against CANROY's a few years ago. This happened when a bunch of Canadian companies decided to become "Royalty Trusts" and avoiding Canandian taxes. Canada took away [more]

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JoKingMe posted to the Real Estate Inv. Trusts: REITs board. 7:30 AM

Preferred drops at end of day Friday..

I notice that several preferreds I own dropped over 1% in the last few minutes of trading on Friday.

AFC, EPR-F, NLY-C, NLY-D and SLMAP to name a few.

No news on AFC or SLMAP being called.

John

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JoKingMe posted to the Real Estate Inv. Trusts: REITs board. 5:06 PM

EPR becomes monthly dividend payer

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/epr-properties-declares-inaugu...

KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

EPR Properties (EPR) today [more]

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JoKingMe replied to the Retire Early CampFIRE board. 10:32 AM

Re: Hostess and Unions

Better yet, let the union buy the business and let the union run it. I'm sure they can return it to profitability while paying the old wages and benefits while using the same archaic work rules imposed on Hostess.

I'm sure Owebozo will find [more]

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JoKingMe replied to the Real Estate Inv. Trusts: REITs board. 4:33 PM

Re: CWH Earnings and much more..

The blood suckers at RMR have been milking CWH for years while delivering very poor results to the common shareholders.

Only way they'd go for this deal is if they actually own enough CWH shares to make selling for the premium worth their [more]

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JoKingMe replied to the Real Estate Inv. Trusts: REITs board. 8:59 AM

Re: CWH Earnings and much more..

More news on CWH today. Common stock up $4.00 (25%) in pre-market trading.

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JoKingMe posted to the Real Estate Inv. Trusts: REITs board. 7:41 AM

CWH Earnings and much more..

CWH is issuing 27,000,000 shares and repurchasing debt. All press releases available at: http://www.cwhreit.com/

Newton, MA (BUSINESS WIRE): CommonWealth REIT (NYSE: CWH) today announced financial [more]

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JoKingMe posted to the Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. board. 8:21 AM

2013 Q4 Earnings Released...

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JoKingMe replied to the Real Estate Inv. Trusts: REITs board. 1:56 PM

Re: Feste Nominee: yodaorange

Ok, Wendy I'll take a shot....

http://boards.fool.com/reit-preferreds-searching-for-value-a...

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JoKingMe replied to the Real Estate Inv. Trusts: REITs board. 7:55 AM

Re: LSE Preferred C

Stephen,
I also own LSE-B and wondering when to sell. Call protection until 4/2017 with current yield of 7.69% ($2.09375/year) makes this attractive to hold. Hard to find that level of current yield.

Looking at a similar preferred with [more]

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JoKingMe polled the Real Estate Inv. Trusts: REITs board. 2:24 PM

Poll: Which PLD preferred to own?

Yoda mentioned PLD preferreds in the prior thread and I'm wondering which one(s) I would want to own. All go ex-div on 3/18. As Yoda mentioned the volumes on these are very low and market prices may vary greatly from last trade. Numbers are based on [more]