Specifically, Fidelity found in a recent survey, employers are either introducing or increasing the employee discount on company stock up to 15%.

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But given the way the stock has traded, buying on the little discount may be a better strategy than waiting for the big sale.

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Buy the fund and you are buying YPF even cheaper since the fund trades on the New York Stock Exchange at a 29% discount to net asset value.

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In Watt's Latin America Equity fund, for example, you are getting shares of YPF, an integrated oil company in Argentina that trades at 6.5 times estimated cash flow (expected 1998 earnings plus depreciation). (The comparable ratio for Exxon is about twice that.) Buy the fund and you are buying YPF even cheaper, since the fund trades on the New York Stock Exchange at a 29% discount to net asset value.

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Such plans allow employees to buy their company's stock at a discount of 5% to 15% off the market price on a specific day.

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Citi analyst Deborah Weinswig cut her rating on the stock to Neutral from Buy, saying that Target, the second largest discount retailer, will struggle to attract middle-income consumers to its stores.

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These wholesalers buy unsold stock from keiretsu-affiliated wholesalers and retailers at a discount, and sell it on to discount outlets, where Mr Makino collects prices that he posts on the web.

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With that being said, we have reviewed numerous option filings by Facebook, and some of those prices of the common listed on these typically fell within a 75% to 80% discount as to the most recent round of Preferred Stock that had been issued.

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