Currently, the rule against naked short-selling requires short-sellers to do one of three things: borrow the stock prior to selling it short, identify the stock before selling it short, or have a reasonable belief that they will be able to locate the stock in the future.
If an investor is able to sell their shares prior to a stock offering being announced and buy back their shares after the offering has been announced, in theory, they can juice their returns.
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They now file and trade on the Hong Kong stock exchange instead of the London stock exchange prior to being acquired by Grandtop International Holdings.
However, if they exercise the options one year prior to selling the stock, they are taxed at a capital gains rate, which can mean paying half as much tax.
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Media reports from Singapore now say that members of Thaksin's family are saying they made a mistake in a filing to Thai stock regulators prior to their sale of their entire holding in Shin Corp to Temasek Holdings , the investment arm of the Singaporean government.
The current proposal would go further than the prior rule by eliminating "zero plus" tick short sales, which is when the stock trades flat after a prior uptick.
After all, prior to today, the stock was still trading below where it was back in May 2011.
YCharts Pro, which had been listing the stock as undervalued prior to the latest drop-off, rates it an even bigger bargain now.
Among other things, the company sad that on October 25 the company expects to issue 124 million shares to employees that hold restricted stock units issued prior to 2011.
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The stock hit his prior target.
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The stock rose for years prior to hitting its high in December 1999.
The measure that some use is that of the stock market, which prior to me making this comment, appeared to be above 11, 000.
The stock lagged in the prior bull market and fell fully with the market in the bear, so it's cheap now.
Prior to this week, the stock market was concerned about the looming fiscal cliff, with the Dow losing 1, 070 points, or 8% over the last two months, and some sectors like utilities and other high-dividend stocks, down 11% to 18%.
In doing so, Cary, a former Columbia Law School professor recently honored by the school at a day-long insider trading conference, replaced this messy system with a straightforward rule: anyone holding insider information must disclose it to the marketplace prior to buying or selling a stock or abstain from trading.
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But Mr. Obama was already president prior to the election, and the stock market has been in a strong bull market that started March 10, 2009, less than two months after he was inaugurated.
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Both defense teams failed to deliver on this promise, and their argument's credibility was severely damaged by the fact that Lay and Skilling made huge stock sales in the weeks prior to the company's collapse.
In a press release, BE announced it will issue its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2011 prior to the opening of the NASDAQ Stock Market on April 25, 2011, and will hold a conference call to discuss the results at 9:00 a.m.
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Wars had the greatest impact on stock market returns in the period prior to the onset of overt hostilities.
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As these moves have failed to boost Schwab's finances significantly, its stock lost 25% this year prior to Pottruck's resignation.
Analyst Michael Marino, who follows Halliburton at investment bank Stephens, says the stock has demonstrated its resilience in prior market contractions.
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Then we take advantage of this behavior, this often temporary irrational behavior, by buying company stock before other investors adjust their prior expectations to reflect those new fundamentals.
Investor Relations is not returning calls and when they were prior to this week, even as the stock was starting to percolate higher, refused to say anything meaningful.
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The average analyst rating of the stock has stayed steady from three months prior.
The average analyst rating of the stock has stayed constant from three months prior.
Prior to that, most sales of ownership of stock were private, and a company typically sold for three to four times earnings.
Chipmakers have been known to reset faster chips to a slower speed and install them in place of a prior-generation chip that's out of stock.
Mann speculated that the lawsuit had been hyped so that, prior to an FDA decision, those short the stock could get out of their position before an upswing.
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