Is the big, smart money exiting and raising cash ahead of an important, general stock market decline?
His public stock picks have outperformed the general stock market by an annual average of 7.0% over the past 13 years.
The industry's shares did not share in the general stock market rally, thanks to concerns about pressures on earnings of some of its key players.
Major financial names like Citigroup, Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase followed the path of the general stock markets, sliding toward the close.
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Like many other financial companies, the bank's been looking to raise new capital, but at least it hasn't had to resort to overseas investment funds or general stock sales.
General Electric, up 10%, has been bested this year by gritty industrial stock General Motors, up 22%.
And General Growth's stock appreciation and dividend growth have been tops among REITs (see: " Good Neighbors").
When General Growth Properties' stock fell 95% in late 2008, most investors fled it like toxic waste.
These secondary-market transactions are the same as an individual buying stock in General Electric betting it will rise.
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General Electric made The Stock List roster the day after Visa did.
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It is hard to believe, but the Athens Stock Exchange General Index has lost over 88% in value since peaking in November 2007.
One, general weakness in the stock market recently due to macro issues has some concerned on overall consumer spending, including media and so discount the impact of iCloud spending.
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Venture capital firms holding stock include General Catalyst Partners which will hold 26.7% of the company after the offering, Sequoia Capital with 16.1%, Accel Partners with 12.46% and Oak Investment Partners, with 10.53%.
In a 2011 article for the scholarly journal Science, researchers Martin Hilbert and Priscila Lopez estimated that the entire processing power of the world's stock of general-purpose computers in 2007 more or less equaled that of one human brain (about 6.4 quintillion instructions per second -- the standard measure of computer speed).
The founder-entrepreneur purchases his stock for a penny a share and the VC general partner is allocated a percentage of the stock (if the VC firm is profitable) without paying extra for it.
Ever since the May Flash-Crash, investors have been cautious about the stock market in general.
ETFs can be a good barometer for the stock market in general.
General Motors could be a stock, again, right?
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With U.S. and some European stock indexes at multi-month or multi-year highs at present, the general investing public is more interested in the stock market than at any time in years.
Even after General Growth declared bankruptcy, its stock continued to trade and it paid steady dividends.
The general rule of thumb says a stock is undervalued if its PEG falls below 1, but is overvalued if its PEG is greater than 1.
Before his election as governor, Spitzer as attorney general sparred with the New York Stock Exchange, and board member Langone, over the pay package of former Big Board Chairman Dick Grasso.
The top stock in this portfolio is General Electric ( GE), accounting for more than 10% of the fund.
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These days AMRs balance sheet looks as good as General Motors, and its in a stock buy-back mood, too.
The stock chart below shows that General Mills efforts have helped its shares outperform some big competitors, and to hold its own against others.
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The expediency of bulk-leasing negotiations may explain why, despite the theory of a few years ago that the Internet would turn malls into dustbins, mall REITs in general have scored higher total returns (stock appreciation plus dividends) than other kinds of property trusts.
With falling revenue growth and rising marketing, selling and general costs, we now expect the stock to be worth significantly less than we previously expected until we see more encouraging signs that the company can provide growth in its international business and stabilize its cost base.
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After the general market bounceback of 1975-76, stock investors had to become an individual stock picker, a la Lynch, to make money.
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