Additionally, constituents are weighted proportionally on free float market capitalization with the largest positions capped at 4.75% each.
If the rates were allowed to float up to market levels, Irish households, banks, and the government itself, would all sink.
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Launched in February 2004, last month Facebook announced plans to float on the stock market.
Facebook's decision to float on the stock market is a watershed moment that will force the brash young business into adulthood.
Collapsed care provider Southern Cross was warned about failing standards in its homes as it prepared to float on the stock market, the BBC has learned.
On 20 August, the market will float over to Little Venice near Paddington in time for the Paralympic Games, taking place in London from 29 Aug to 9 September.
Instead it's a suggestion that rather than attempting to divine the market rate for cash, the Fed should float the funds rate that it sets so that market forces can equalize the supply of and demand for credit.
Reports have suggested that it was originally planned to float Gala on the stock market, but these plans were abandoned given the current depressed market conditions.
Eight hundred million shares (35% of the float) entered the open market for FB yesterday, and many speculators posited that the wave of new supply would weigh on the stock.
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Of course, after allowing market expectations to float all the way up to pricing in a 2 trillion EFSF expansion, Germany then yanked the rug from under the optimists this Monday.
Right now the likelihood is that Lloyds will eventually opt to float Verde on the stock market - although there is a small possibility that it will revive talks on selling it to NBNK, the company specially created to buy banks by Lord Levene.
The stock market indices continue to float upwards, totally ignoring any negatives in the U.S. or abroad.
Virgin Money chief executive Jayne-Anne Gadhia confirmed to the BBC that the bank intended to float its shares on the stock market within two to five years.
As insiders and venture capital investors head for the exits, expect more shares to come onto the market, and the float or the shares available for active trading will increase.
With a family trust for a majority owner (under a stipulation that it must always hold over 50%) and unable to float new shares on the stock market, Carlsberg was simply out of the big brewery-buying game.
When people look at the capitalization of a market, they so-called float weight it.
Reforms to the market make it ever easier to float new companies and to trade their shares.
Its policy is to favour a free float, which is shorthand for letting the market set the value of the Australian dollar.
As of June 30, 16.7% of the entire float of Green Mountain shares were sold short by market players who had hoped to profit by replacing borrowed shares with ones that they thought would be cheaper in the future.
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Pending the full float of the currency, this will be an entirely domestic market.
The Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Market Index and the newer U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index are composed of investment grade U.S. bonds.
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Much of the rise in market capitalisation will result from more companies issuing shares as they float on local stockmarkets, rather than from rising share prices.
But I am long tech and float shrink, and will add to both positions over time if the market remains at or around current levels or plunges.
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Iraq lacks a money market, so the government won't be able to float bonds to investors, as we do in the U.S. Government deficits will be funded by turning on the printing presses.
When interest rates are allowed to float free of central bank intervention, the happy consequence of such a market-driven price is that in reaching natural levels conceived in the marketplace, the supply of and demand for credit is equalized.
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Over the past year or so, portfolios of companies that are using free cash flow to shrink the float have not only significantly outperformed all dividend ETFs, but also the overall market.
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Therefore, to invest for the future while protecting as best as possible against a future market downturn, I recommend buying portfolios of companies shrinking the trading float of shares and using free cash flow to do so.
The local currency could be devalued based on an agreed upon schedule or allowed to float within a specified range in order to restore competitiveness and economic growth in the local market.
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