European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Parezo the stars and stripes sunday. March 29,1987 investor s guide by Bill Doyle a through the years i a a want and mid Many different Stocka and have it Ltd on owning electric Utility Sham. I now Bay Ticki of a tiber it my dead per Nentis i Hare dam Raywell. Why do pm and other writer my Toifl mention  a. I have to dispute your state ment about Utility stocks being written about very Seldom Here. This column has mentioned utilities More often than any other Type of Slock usually very favourably. Wilh some exceptions the stocks of All types of Utility Compa Nies Cle conc Gas Telephone and water have Ocea Fine invest ments. Over the Long haul Mast utilities have had reasonably steady record of increasing their earnings thereby allowing them to Reward owners or their common stocks with higher dividends in general Utility stocks arc considered to be High Quality and conservative investments. But you can t just stick a Hatpin in a list of Utility stocks any More than you can throw a Dart at a newspaper Stock table Page and be sure of hitting a Winner. There have been some notable disappointments among electric utilities More often than not involving Cost overruns and or other prob lems with nuclear Power plants. It s evident that you followed the time tested practice of investigating before  q. A wrote that yarn Wunt think of one reason it would be taster to will an estate by Baring stocks in strict Dame Tel la a brokerage Frai. I a bag. After my father died ii was �  pain having the ownership of his Stock Tranate cd to by Mother s name by dealing with Eire Stock Transfer agent Many of the Transfer agent Nane on the Stock certificates were out of dec and the Transfer agents Wen difficult to dul with. Alt it b expensive to tend the certificate and net Euay documents to each Transfer agent by registered mail. To Arold All this the stocks were put in a Santt name account at a brokerage Home which had the transfers done at no Cost. This saved Lime and Money. A. You nuke a Good Point. Brokerage firms usually can arrange the Transfer of Stock ownership from one name to another with less hassle than you would run into on your own. And some broker Ages do handle that chore at no Cost especially for Good custom in. Other brokerage houses charge sometime fat fee for the Lime and Effort involved. And you re right about Transfer agents names on Slock certificates sometimes being out of Dale especially if inc certificates were issued care ago. Corporations often change Transfer agents. However you can learn any Stock s current Transfer agent by looking in the company s most re cent annual report. The securities and Exchange commission require that name and address to be primed in that report. Kjep it stunt bin Devil get unit Dopa my can Watt to qut Wii. M in pm provid to not wily  column business news a weeks three record sessions new York. 4 4 130 u lunch prices from Page 19 re cd mini la Mimno 0. My a mme Sun so con so of 5m wi87". See r spotto met t to f and non 0 atm of 61 go fail Ioc 1s1 tots my o 101 Al my 3ijii3u4 is 10� 1148 Mil 1649 it31 17.tt 13 m it. 18.82 a 153jn.l, 14.71 my o.03nl. Of of of it no Ort bit of my a Hill Nilst 15-81 14.1b 183hj_ 1914n.l, 7j7 ill b.70 9 is im1 13.4$ 107b 11.21 is.74  1441 my 1.17 . Uhf s4.40 84.77 11.70 . 14.40 . 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American express Tost to 76t american express monday announced a iwo for one Stock split and said it would spin off 40 percent Fiti Scarson leh Man Brothers brokerage subsidiary. Naii Onat semiconductor lost m to 4vj. Tuesday it reported a third Quarter loss of $25.6 minion. Ism had a net gain of 24t to 150m in heavy trading. Us air lost a to 44w. On wednesday a four Millum share Block of us air was sold at 45. The setter reportedly was Tonuu world airlines which hat abandoned its attempt to acquire its rival Carrier. Mining companies Rose on the strength ening Price of Gold. Sunshine mining gained pvt to 6 4, Newmont mining Rose Toulo 95w. Asa soared i of to a and Newmont Gold jumped 6 a to 33. Broad Market indexes fell. Standard & poor s Joo Stock Index dropped 2.04 to 296.l3and the new York Stock Exchange composite Index lost 1.00 to 168.37. 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