Investor frenzy resurfaced for fast-growing Internet companies as the stock price of business-reviews site Yelp jumped 64% in its market debut.
It's not just that there a lot more homes now--housing stock has actually been growing much faster than the population over the past couple of decades--but on top of the trend to fewer people per home, the average home's square footage has ballooned by 30%.
Doubts that Intel will succeed in the newer and faster-growing field are keeping its stock down.
As a result, Apple's shares are down nearly 6% this year, as the stock market punishes fast-growing technology companies.
Together with the growing use of employee stock options, money-purchase and individual pensions should give ordinary people a direct stake in the economy.
We benefit from our well-bargained trade and our neighbors from their growing stock market portfolio.
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ADP, serving 570, 000 business clients, recently streamlined, disposing of lower-margin and slower-growing units, such as a service that processes stock transactions.
Amid a major stock sell-off this morning on the growing crisis in Japan, solar shares continue to be one of the few groups to show gains.
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Currently, only a very low percentage of the household savings of Indians are invested in the domestic stock market, but with GDP growing at 7-8% annually and a stable financial market, we might see more money joining the race.
Rival Miller was growing aggressively, Anheuser-Busch's profits were slipping and its stock price was sagging.
An ageing stock of homes, a growing proportion of elderly home-owners and job and relationship instability would lead to an increase in the number of people who found it hard to maintain their properties, it said.
The fund's stock-picking process includes a scan of companies growing faster than their peers, a risk evaluation of balance sheets and the stability of cash flows, and a hard look at valuation, to see if a stock is worth the price.
Growing short interest, says Johnson, is not only an indicator of growing pessimism toward the stock but also serves as a "built-in bid" if the stock continues its upward move and short-sellers buy shares to close out their short positions.
Part of the reason, their study concludes, is the dual nature of the economy: Many of the fastest-growing companies are outside the public markets and therefore not available to stock investors.
Meanwhile, Shenzhen, a fast-growing manufacturing city also in Guangdong province, offers the draw of a stock exchange to financial companies.
Anheuser-Busch's rival Miller was growing aggressively, its profits were slipping and its stock price was sagging.
Christopher Khan, a 21-year-old senior at Boston College, says he has been growing more confident about the stock market.
Most importantly, it will gain the company access to a growing, more stable universe of post-financial crisis investors who would love to own Google stock if it only paid a dividend.
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With this in mind, Credit Suisse suggests some stock ideas that allow investors to benefit from the growing buying power of Chinese and non-Japan Asia consumers.
It was floated on the AIM stock market in 2010, and in 2011 it was named as Scotland's fastest-growing technology business by the accountancy firm Deloitte.
There have been two subsequent inter-meeting cuts, as the Fed tried to respond quickly to the growing evidence of recession and, on September 17th, to steady nerves when the New York Stock Exchange re-opened after the terrorist attacks.
It is worth noting that (a) the Shanghai stock market did not react well to another GDP report showing the economy to be growing at double-digit rates and (b) that there are other emerging markets also starting to play the tightening game.
The NYSE announced on April 20th that it plans to merge with Archipelago Holdings, owner of ArcaEx, a fast-growing ECN that now handles a quarter of the trading in NASDAQ-listed shares and has just acquired the Pacific Stock Exchange, which specialises in derivatives.
Michael Dell, 47, is betting that his company will be able to evolve into a more diversified seller of technology services, business software and high-end computers without having to pander to the stock market's fixation on whether earnings are growing from one quarter to the next.
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