Mine companies' profits higher. - Hecla and federal dividends for quarter are sharply higher. - Hecla Mining company, operating lead, zinc, silver and copper properties in Idaho, reported for the quarter ended March 1, net income of $176,660 after depreciation and depletion, but before provision...

Three local mines declare dividends. - Dividends of 1.2 cents per share on stock of the Sherman Lead company; one cent per share on stock of the Dayrock Mining company and of four-tenths of one cent pershare on stock of the Tamarack & Custer Consolidated Mining company where announced this...

This paper provides a significant numerical evidence for out-of-sample forecasting ability of linear Gaussian interest rate models with unobservable underlying factors. We calibrate one, two and three factor linear Gaussian models using the Kalman filter on two different bond yield data sets and...

Advisor: Susan A. VowelsFriday April 27, 2007

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