Independent firms benefit from full expensing of their intangible drilling costs, while the integrated firms can expense only 70 percent of their IDCs and must write off the rest over a five- year period.
The open approach that Valve decided on years ago is paying off big when it comes to the living room -- if only fivepercent of that installed base jump in on Steambox in 2013 (what we'd call a highly conservative guess), that's 2.5 million users.
Jed Kolko at Trulia shows that in nearly every market, potential buyers with an expected holding period of five years or more and a combined state and local marginal tax rate of 25 percent or higher are better off financially owning than renting.
Although the heavy duty market is suffering from a cyclical downturn, with sales off 13.4 percent last year and continued weakness so far in 2012, all five companies have profited from the boom in heavy duty truck sales over the past five years and are financially strong.