Cost basis is the cost at which you entered a position or purchased an asset. It is the total price you paid for, say,
your house, a stock, mutual fund, etc…–and by total we mean including all commissions, accrued interests and other expenses.
Cost basis is used to determine tax liabilities.
For example, if you bought 100 shares of IBM at $111.45, and IBM is
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Morristown Police Department detectives arrested five people Friday evening on drugs and weapons charges following an investigation lasting several months, according to a press release from Morristown Chief of Police Roger Overholt.
A team of investigators from the Morristown Police Department, Hamblen County Sheriff’s Department, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program were are all involved with Read the rest of this entry »
GALION The Galion Health Department has closed a restaurant because of repeated failed inspections and recurrent critical violations since 2005, according to a summary of health inspections.
The department closed M-R Family Restaurant, 741 Portland Way South, on Monday after an administrative hearing deemed it unsafe for patrons. The department also permanently revoked the food operating license of owner Nazif Qorri, a resident of Mansfield. Read the rest of this entry »
As the end of the year approaches, many start thinking about New Year’s resolutions. Losing weight is a perennial favorite, and the diet industry is well aware of this. Ads for prepackaged food plans, diet pills, exercise equipment and gym memberships abound in print and on the air waves this time of year. Unfortunately, most of them will not help you lose weight, and some are an outright rip off.
Dr. Barry Groves, author of Eat Fat Get Thin and Read the rest of this entry »
Dec 22, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved a new version of BioThrax—the nation’s only licensed anthrax vaccine—that requires fewer doses and changes the injection route.
Emergent BioSolutions, maker of BioThrax, said in a Dec 19 press release that the FDA’s approval of the company’s supplemental biologics license application for its anthrax vaccine adsorbed (AVA) allows a new schedule Read the rest of this entry »
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When David Brott, a special education teacher at Springfield’s Lee School, heard that Richard Simmons was coming to town, he dashed off an e-mail message to the celebrity fitness buff.
Brott invited Simmons to exercise with his students in the classroom.
“I thought it was worth a shot,” he said.
Simmons responded, saying he wouldn’t have time to go to Lee School. But he asked Brott to bring his students to the 1,000-body Read the rest of this entry »
THE National Under-21 team have always been 10 minutes away from notching good results, but coach K. Rajan feels he has the time to solve this problem before the Junior World Cup on June 7-21.
The Australian Youth Olympic Festival (AYOF), and the series of friendly matches before and after the tournament, showed the Juniors can play good hockey for 60 minutes, but cave in in the final 10 minutes of their matches.
After the AYOF the Juniors played Read the rest of this entry »
A Pittsburgh-area woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and cutting her infant from her womb is going to spend the next 60 days in a state mental facility.
A judge presiding over a competency hearing Monday for Andrea Curry-Demus says he would like status updates periodically on the woman’s condition. Curry-Demus is accused of meeting Kia Johnson at the Allegheny County Jail while each were visiting other inmates and then somehow luring the Read the rest of this entry »
Teenagers who undergo gastric bypass surgery are often immediately relieved of Type 2 diabetes, according to research published today in the journal
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Studies on adults with Type 2 diabetes show that gastric bypass can result in disease remission or better disease control. However, this study is the first to explore the effects of the surgery in children. The study examined adolescents with Type 2 diabetes, which is usually related to obesity Read the rest of this entry »