It's not uncommon that companies require directors to hold a sizable percentage--usually half--of their retainer in stock.
Suppose half the customers wind up with Dow in their 150-stock subsets and half with Du Pont.
It was a time of singing-sock-puppets, 21-year-old chief executives, gravity-defiant stock prices, revolutionary technologies and half-baked business plans.
But, again, like Bank of America these represent only half of the long-term stock award.
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Another reason to like dividend stocks is they tend to be less volatile over time because yield provides support: a stock yielding 5% is less likely to get cut in half and yield 10% than a non-dividend paying growth stock or a low-yielding stock.
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When I reached base, I called my office and sold every small-cap stock I owned, half of my portfolio.
To reduce the risk of panic, the Tokyo Stock Exchange opened half an hour later than usual and halved the limits placed on daily stock-price movements.
About half-way through the trading day Friday, the stock has already trading another 75 million shares.
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As a guide, without loss-making companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, reported profits would be one-and-a-half times greater than they were in the past fiscal year.
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By the mid-aughts, hedge funds accounted for nearly half of all stock trades, and there was ferocious competition for wealthy investors and the business of investment banks.
The stock market is continuing to question forecasts for second-half and full-year growth.
Angela Forshaw, director of housing at Liverpool Mutual Homes (LMH), said half of its stock of more than 15, 000 properties comprised three-bedroom homes.
In other words, the Fed this year will in essence print half a trillion dollars that will not improve after-tax income nor help stock prices grow.
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The Nikkei 225 stock average sank 0.7 per cent in the half-hour after opening on Monday, while the yen weakened slightly to about 94.25 to the dollar.
There is a disconnect between the progress made by Morgan Stanley into a lower risk, wealth and asset manager (now half the company) and a stock that trades at over a one-third discount to its tangible book value.
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Iran's stock of low-enriched uranium is bigger: only about half of it would be needed to produce the equivalent fuel load for the medical reactor.
U.S. stock futures have taken a sharp turn lower in the last half-hour, and the market is now set for a down open this morning.
The stock has temporarily stopped trading, and Livent has been hit with half-a-dozen class-action suits.
Recent years have seen the Government's stock of debt reduced significantly - with external debt now less than half of what it was in the early 1990s.
Itron, a Washington state firm and established industry player that sells advanced meters to utility companies, has seen its stock rise 58% within the last year and as first-half profits rose 37% from 2006 to 2007.
In the three bedroom apartment from which founder Sahil Baghla and his team run the business, they stock only 20 different items, half of which are different color t-shirts that get sent to the printer as the orders arrive.
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Itron (nasdaq: ITRI - news - people ), a Washington state firm and established industry player that sells advanced meters to utility companies, has seen its stock rise 58% within the last year and as first-half profits rose 37% from 2006 to 2007.
The once high-flying stock suddenly crashed and in just over two weeks lost more than half of its value.
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Slim-controlled companies, most of them cobbled together into two main holding companies, Grupo Carso and Grupo Financiero Inbursa, account for half of the combined market cap of Mexico's benchmark stock index, the 35-stock Indice de Precios y Cotizaciones.
His best bearish call in 2006 was one he made on Old Dominion Freight Line (nasdaq: ODFL - news - people ) in the second half of the year, during which time the stock fell 21%.
Hu Angang of Tsinghua University estimates that half of Chinese growth per person in 1978-98 can be attributed to the increase in capital stock per head.
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The manufacturing conglomerate blew past analysts' third-quarter earnings projections when it reported its results, but its stock fell because the midpoint of its prediction for the full year was a half-cent below the consensus.
Trouble is, this is the first time anything had been done, even though Leong Hin's stock had been exhibiting suspicious trading behavior for more than a year and a half--rising and falling over roughly six-month cycles by almost identical amounts, regardless of movements in the local market and with little news from the company.
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