Other stocks should be contemplated as long-term plays because of the transaction costs:Your broker must go through an Aussie counterpart, adding overseas commissions and foreign-exchange spreads to the U.S. brokerage fee.

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Having the Treasury Department - whose job it is to promote foreign investment in the United States - charged with evaluating such investments is a formula for precisely what we have seen to date: rubber-stamp approval of virtually every transaction, with no regard for the long-term or cumulative impact they will have on U.S. national security equities.

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This transaction is aligned with our long-term strategy of expanding our core businesses through organic growth and acquisitions.

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If the stock sale is a qualifying transaction, then the employee will only report a short or long-term capital gain on the sale.

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Strangle-sellers keep the full amount of premium received on the transaction as long as shares in COL trade within the boundaries of the strike prices through expiration day in June.

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Proponents say a transaction tax would discourage short-term trading, with little effect on long-term investors.

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Moreover, shareholders of Bell, the vehicle through which Olivetti was controlled, saw the transaction as an opportunity to make a profit quickly, rather than as a long-term industrial investment.

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That makes no sense if you think about businesses trying to maximize their profit from any given transaction, but it makes sense if you remember that customer satisfaction is an important factor in the long-term success of a retail business.

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