With $1.4 billion of debt maturing in the second half of 2009, observers expected Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust to cut its dividend to conserve cash to help refinance this debt. This nonlisted REIT had been paying an annualized dividend of $0.64 per share which translates to a 6.4% yield based on the price ($10) at which the company sold shares in its public offerings.
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Economists predict W-shaped recovery
May 23rd, 2009
Before You Invest Many economists think the economic recovery will be “W shaped,” meaning the economy might go up and down before resuming a course of growth. Most recoveries since the 1940s have been V shaped. This time, the Federal Reserve and other central banks have been injecting trillions of dollars into the global economy, meaning a sharp rise in inflation could fuel a bouncy ride ahead, observers said.
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