This has generated a large stock of unsold homes that will continue to enter the market, which will add additional downward pressure on prices.
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One result is that you don't have to accumulate a large stock of rewards points before spending them or spend all their points at once, but instead can use points to cover a portion of the purchase price and then use a credit card or debit card to make up the difference.
They set up two classes of stock--a large block of nonvoting Class A stock (which was willed to the charitable Ford Foundation) and a much smaller block of Class B stock that had voting rights (and was willed to the family).
Skilling's other key mistake: the sale of a large quantity of Enron stock on Sept. 17, 2001, the first day of trading after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Issam - a 50-year-old owner of a large business - sends his wife to stock up on tinned food for their mountain house in fear of a possible war.
What corporate executive would criticize a government that owns a large block of company stock?
Within two hours of the call, Teeple telephoned an investment adviser, who began purchasing a large amount of Foundry stock even before he got off the phone, prosecutors said.
He freely admits that he is "a large holder" of stock in Friedland's Ivanhoe Energy and has recommended both Ivanhoe Mines and Ivanhoe Energy in his newsletter. (He has also shilled for Ivanhoe Energy on CBS MarketWatch's weekend network-TV broadcast.) His enthusiasm has been credited by various news wires with moving the stocks higher.
Just take a look at the stock of large US export companies after China released data that showed a slow down in their economies last week: Toyota Motor Company (NYSE:TM) down 1.92%, Honda (NYSE:HMC) down 2.12%, GM (NYSE:GM) down 2.09%, Ford (NYSE:F) down 1.24%, Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) down 0.52%, Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE) down 7.30%, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) down .20%, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) down 1.37%, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) down 2.82%, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) down 1.21 %, and 3M (NYSE:MMM) down 1.35 percent.
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Big companies have a big advantage in recruiting today's most valuable resource: talent. (Graduates have debts, and many prefer the certainty of a salary to the lottery of stock in a start-up.) Large firms are getting better at avoiding bureaucratic stagnation: they are flattening their hierarchies and opening themselves up to ideas from elsewhere.
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Thomas then explained that unless a significant amount of money was offered on the stock exchange in a very short time, a large number of failures would result.
Keep in mind that the expenses of a large-cap, domestic stock fund will be lower than those of an international bond fund, so compare funds only among their category peers.
Within a few milliseconds, I had short sold a very large quantity of Apple stock.
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It was their trading in the stock of a large financial institution at a time when the SEC was running multiple investigations of the company that got referred to prosecutors, the report says.
The Asian Crisis and the collapse of local stock and property markets have put a large part of such plans on hold.
And Chairman Bernanke admitted in his press conference yesterday that the Fed is targeting the stock market as a large part of its effort to improve the employment picture.
The biggest boost to ratings would come from a large reduction of Greece's debt stock.
In other words, on May10, you could see a large change of control in the underlying stock, as that is a day in which many of these options can be exercised.
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"An advantage of a PIPE is that an institutional investor can take a large position in an illiquid stock, " said Byron Roth, chairman of Roth Capital Partners, which raised the most money in PIPE deals last year.
But the New York Stock Exchange says a couple of large Russian companies are in discussions about a listing in the near future.
Strypes purchasers get fixed interest payments plus a large share of any gains in the underlying stock while assuming all or almost all the risk of loss.
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There was a large order for 7 million shares of New York Times stock that crossed the tape on Monday morning, fueling rumors that Slim sought to increase his position in the media group.
Miller also defrauded another broker-dealer into taking on a significant short position in Apple stock to hedge against the large purchase of Apple stock he was executing at Rochdale, authorities said.
He had heard that a stock trader there named Colonel Stonehill had bought a large parcel of cow ponies from Texas drovers on their way to Kansas and was now stuck with them.
Mr. Cordasco, who referred to Facebook's debut as a "face-plant, " had advised one qualified investor who wanted to put a large amount in the stock not to buy on the first day of trading.
The book compared that list with a sample of 100 large traditional firms listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
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For example, large cap stocks have historically returned about 9% per annum in the U.S., but due to the new market realities, of slow growth, heightened volatility, punctuated by periodic financial crisis, an annual return estimate of 6% to 8% for a large cap stock portfolio might be more realistic.
In addition, there are a large number of transactions that are not counted in the GDP, namely stock, bond, and derivative sales.
The next day, September 22, Darden bought large amounts of AirTran common stock and call options, purchasing a total of 40, 000 shares and 200 out-of-the-money call options.
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