States do not have to acquire majority interest (control of 50% or more of the voting stock) or even insider ownership (control of 5% or more of the voting stock) to wield an influential hand in furthering their interest.
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There was no explanation other than the bears had seized control of the stock.
In total, holders of Class B stock control approximately 98% of the voting power of outstanding stock.
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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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This seems unlikely, given that longtime buddy Bill Gates presides over the board, that he and Ballmer between them control 12% of the stock and that Ballmer has produced a 10.5% compound annual revenue growth over the past decade.
Control of the world's stock of foreign direct investment (FDI), which includes takeovers and companies' greenfield investments, tends to reflect a country's economic muscle.
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The buyout gave Goldman control of the leading New York Stock Exchange floor specialist, with exclusive rights to make markets in more than 500 stocks.
Arsenal's board, which controls 45.5% of the stock, has no intention of relinquishing control, especially after all the pain it went through to build the privately financed Emirates Stadium.
The Glazers will continue to control the company through a class of supervoting stock.
The Glazers will continue to control the company through a class of supervoting stock, meaning that new shareholders will have little say on the team's future.
"It became very clear that we had no control of the volume or price of our stock in any way, " said Global Links Chief Executive Frank Dobrucki , in a March 15, 2005, letter to shareholders.
On the other hand, ABB is one of many companies under the umbrella of Sweden's Wallenberg family, who control, directly and indirectly, over 40% of the Swedish stock market's capitalization.
But with cost control, a strong balance sheet and loads of stock buybacks, Gap has made itself an attractive investment.
Svyazinvest's shareholdings in its main subsidiaries, usually 38%, carry voting control because each subsidiary has 25% of its stock issued in non-voting form.
Members of the France Family Group own and control Nascar and International Speedway, and some have been big buyers of ISCA stock recently.
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First, 37% of these big public corporations were actually under some significant level of control by the families of their founders, either because they own more than 5% of the stock or they sit in officer and director seats.
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Once the offering is completed, Ellison and his family will control more than 65% of NetSuite's common stock.
Only when Republicans won control of both congressional houses in November 1994 did the stock market really grow legs.
But most importantly it needs to move beyond traditional business applications (such as finance and stock control) which still generate most of its revenue.
This will be a big test for the Batista brothers and for Brazil's tropical brand of capitalism, which mixes family control with traded stock, and finance from state-run banks with foreign acquisitions.
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Google (GOOG) announced last night that it would create a triple class structure, to ensure the founders and Eric Schmidt hold on to full control of the company forever even as they use more stock for employee compensation.
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U.S. laws currently cap international ownership to 25 percent of voting stock, and prohibit "actual control" by foreign citizens.
One possibility: Kerkorian hopes to gain enough influence at Ford to eventually get rid of the Class B shares, which gives the Ford family 40% voting control despite owning just 4% of the company's stock.
At Dow Jones the Bancrofts control 64% of the votes versus 25% of the stock, which translates into a 26% reduction from what the company would be worth with a single class of stock, she estimates.
Under his control, the stock sank to a low 52 week low of 2.10 after a public spat with Clearwire drove both stocks to extreme low prices in the fall of 2011.
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At Dow Jones the Bancrofts control 64% of the votes vs. 25% of the stock, which translates into a 26% reduction from what the company would be worth with a single class of stock, she estimates.
Both companies will be under Murdoch's control through a family trust that owns nearly 40 percent of a special stock that wields extra voting power.
Montag could get millions more, too, in stock if he leaves in Merrill's change of control.
Investors continue to withdraw from the stock market, leaving even more of the volume under the control of traders, who do not go away but are in there every day doing their job.
The LSE board may prefer the approach from Euronext--the owner of the Paris and Amsterdam stock exchanges, which pledged to give London significant control over the U.K.'s markets.
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