A-shares is still higher than the yield on bank deposits, making shares look a reasonably safe bet.
A-shares trade at the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
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A-shares, though the government says more will be allowed to float.
The Morgan Stanley China A Share Fund (NYSE: CAF) invests at least 80% of its assets in A-shares of Chinese companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges.
A-shares will be issued in the next four years.
ECONOMIST: China's different share classes damage its own prospects
A-shares has narrowed over the past six years from about 90% to below 30%, as prices in the Hong Kong market have risen and prices on the mainland have (until recently) stagnated (see chart).
ECONOMIST: China's different share classes damage its own prospects
A-shares, which, once again, carry identical legal rights.
ECONOMIST: China's different share classes damage its own prospects
A-shares, as well as other Chinese securities.
ECONOMIST: China's different share classes damage its own prospects
Swartzberg, who maintains a "hold" rating on A-B shares, thinks a return to price leadership and an end to negative earnings revisions will slowly reverse the decline in profit growth the company has suffered in 2005.
How ironic that on a day when Facebook shares hit a new all-time low, Apple shares finished at a new all-time high.
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Out of a hundred and seventy-eight countries surveyed in 2010, Russia ranks a hundred and fifty-fourth, a spot it shares with Cambodia, Guinea-Bissau, and the Central African Republic.
Using a 50%, 15%, and 35% allocation to these ETFs, respectively, you would have bested both A shares and C shares on a one-, three-, and five-year basis.
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Commercial Secretary to the Treasury Lord Sassoon set out the reforms this would introduce, such as abolishing the minimum age for joining a co-operative and removing the restriction on the maximum holding on non-withdrawable shares from a co-operative.
Although the key Xstrata shareholder, Qatar Holdings, with its 12% stake, was asking for a higher offer than the 3.05 Glencore shares for each Xstrata - it has said it would accept a minimum of 3.25 Glencore shares - most shareholders should benefit from the deal.
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Because the health-insurance group has been so deeply out of favor, it still offers value investors a shot at low-priced shares, at a time when bargains are growing harder to find elsewhere.
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Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras S.A.-ELETROBRAS shares are currently trading down about 0.6% on the day.
He acquired more than a half-million shares of the electronics retailer between October and December of last year.
But it would also have to be simple for the new owners - many of whom will never have used a stockbroker - to sell shares.
On Friday, Russia - which shares a border with North Korea - summoned US and South Korean envoys to urge them to cancel the exercises, saying Moscow was "deeply concerned" about rising tensions in the region.
Last week, Thiel filed with the SEC to disclosure the conversion of 9.3 million of his Class B shares into free-trading Class A shares.
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Traditionally, to entice institutional investors a newly-public business would have to sell shares at about a 15% discount to publicly-traded peers, compensating their new owners for the greater risk inherent in a company with an unproven track record on the public market.
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Pinterest leads the Polyvore pack, Gullov-Singh says, because the visual nature of photo-sharing platform makes it a natural for shares and click-throughs.
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At the start of 2011, Allen converted 2.2 million shares of super-voting stock to ordinary shares, meaning he no longer retained a 35% voting interest associated with his super-voting shares.
Back then he said that keeping a start-up private by selling shares through a secondary market or to other VCs would let Libin keep Evernote private while giving his investors an attractive return.
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So, on November 27th, Mr David-Weill said that Eurafrance would begin a buy-back of its shares and would look for other ways to increase their price towards their asset value or better.
Several high-profile internet firms that went public last year, including Zynga, a social-gaming company, and Groupon, a coupon-peddler, have seen their shares fall below their IPO prices and stay there (see chart 1).
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The watchdog has also taken action against a former shares broker for selling high-risk shares to customers without their consent and using "unacceptable" sales tactics.
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