Predictably, Apple (AAPL) led the tech advancers by posting a hefty year-to-date gain of 42.6%.
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But it is also up about 27% this year and trades at a hefty price-to-earnings ratio of 22 times.
The IRS is well aware that many owners of S corporations are tempted to underreport salary to avoid paying payroll taxes, while taking a hefty payroll-tax-free dividend.
Quasi-private mortgage financier Freddie Mac (nyse: FRE - news - people ) announced a hefty second-quarter loss Wednesday, stretching beyond even Wall Street's pessimistic expectations.
"The problem in South Africa is that everyone wants to run the country, " he said, arguing that the ANC - with its hefty parliamentary majority - should be "given space to do its work".
Such middlemen find Louisiana taxpayers looking to offset their state income with film credits--and pocket a hefty taxpayer-funded spread.
Jean Claude Rodriguez Ferrera of the Association for Self-Financed Communities (CAFs) initially kept his methodology for managing a self-financed community in a hefty, three-inch thick binder.
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Hodel has some pretty hefty support-- Siemens (nyse: SI - news - people ), with which he has developed gas-fired plants in ten states, and the Linde Group, the industrial gases and engineering company in Munich.
Hodel has some pretty hefty support--Siemens, with which he has developed gas-fired plants in ten states, and the Linde Group, the industrial gases and engineering company in Munich.
Quasi-private mortgage financier Freddie Mac announced a hefty second-quarter loss Wednesday, stretching beyond even Wall Street's pessimistic expectations.
But several long-serving employees said the company was avoiding hefty redundancy pay-offs by putting them into a pool of staff awaiting redeployment.
Overall, peak front-month put open interest resides at the out-of-the-money November 14 strike, totaling a hefty 75, 196 contracts.
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Within the next hour, tiny pewees and hefty puffbirds, insect-eating tyrants and egg-snatching toucans had paraded in front of my cabin, each newcomer more brightly feathered than the last.
The former heavyweight boxing champion, who has fallen on hard times due to failed business ventures, two divorces and hefty six-figure annual child support bills, recently lost his mega-mansion in a foreclosure auction.
Still - smaller, leaner, with a hefty website to back them up - the successful retailers of the future could prove there's life in the old High Street yet.
When Pfizer, a research-based drug firm, announced increased profits and a hefty cut in its research-and-development budget on February 1st, its shares surged.
While physical demand was firm, exchange-traded funds saw hefty outflows and futures and option markets participants had low net-long positions on the Comex exchange.
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With the bulk of its 34 million workforce without even high-school diplomas, college-trained job hunters command hefty premiums.
Berkshire Hathaway, Mr Buffett's insurance-oriented conglomerate, is facing a hefty bill for the attack, perhaps some 3-5% of the eventual total, he says.
Yet, with companies trading at close to their 52-week-highs, are hefty price tags on these transactions justified?
More likely--and as unappetizing for Groupon--its local business customers could face hefty fines or loss of their licenses.
The 30-year-old New Zealand-born front-rower has a reputation for powerful scrummaging courtesy of his hefty 19st 9lb, 6ft 1in frame.
Year-to-date the fund is up a hefty 12.9 percent, besting competing funds in the oil equipment and services segment.
Square- or rectangular-shaped outdoor rooms benefit mightily from hefty pots and planters placed at each corner.
That's the upside to the rounded edges, of course, but for a 1.3-pound, 0.31-inch-thick device, the 101 is reassuringly sturdy (and hefty, we might add).
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In total, 2.6 billion ARM-based chips have made their way into the gadgets this quarter, an increase of 35 percent year-on-year, with embedded hardware up a hefty 50 percent since Q1 2012.
And we do mean hefty -- this laptop apparently tips the scales at 1.88 Kg, which puts it a touch over the four pound mark. 4.1 pounds certainly isn't shoulder busting, but it's a solid half a pound more than you'd expect from a machine of this size.
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Money was invested, offices opened at home and abroad, award-winning journalists hired and sections added until the former light-weight rag had grown so hefty that doorsteps trembled at its descent.
But it causes a rift between the agency and wireless carriers because it requires companies to test their 911 systems at local emergency call centers--rather than at the statewide level--within five years, which will require a hefty investment in technology.
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