There are several ways to invest in small-cap stocks, including some very liquid small-cap ETFs, a closed-end small-cap fund, or through individual small-cap stocks, where the risk (as well as the potential reward) is much higher.
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The idea was to first convert this small, open-end fund into a closed-end.
Lowe adds that e-scheduling makes it easier for small businesses to conduct high-end loyalty-marketing campaigns, for example, by sending out e-mails (perhaps with discount offers) to customers who haven't made an appointment in six months.
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Today, only small number of high-end laptops have MIMO technology.
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But as more portable devices--like digital cameras and camcorders--come with FireWire capacity, the Windows machine cartel may consider small concessions too keep the high-end digerati happy.
Just over a year ago, my wife wrote a small check for an end-of-the-year school function of some sort.
Morgan Fleming European ( VEUCX) funds are no load, but AIM European Small Company has a front-end sales charge.
The prevailing explanation for this behavior is that investors dump their small-cap losers before the end of the year to book their losses.
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Contrast this with the 0.05% annualized transaction costs (with no front-end load) for our highest rated small-cap growth mutual fund, Virtus Equity Trust: Virtus Small-Cap Core Fund (PKSFX).
Alpha and Tandem's Himalaya servers are technically unmatched, but the market for such specialised high-end machines is small.
By placing small units close to the end-user, utilities (or end-users) need not in the first place send so much power down those ageing lines.
As 2011 winds down to a close, many small business owners are scrutinizing year-end tax deadlines in a last-ditch effort to lighten their payment to Uncle Sam come April.
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Developers are turning the hotel, a long, empty department store and small buildings up the street into high-end condos.
Pierpont Davis and Walter Davis built small apartment complexes around courtyards and high-end single-family courtyard homes in Los Angeles.
The IRS suggests that small businesses should back-up at year end, limiting IRS access to one year at a time.
The fundamental reason for this tendency is tax sensitive investors (mostly individual retail investors) sell small-caps to lock in year-end tax losses, then reinvest their portfolio in the New Year.
That is because Scotland has all but exited the traditional low-end business that McIntyre calls raspberry "pulp"--small Clova berries that could be sloppily picked by the bucketful, frozen, then sold to jam producers or clothing dyers.
So while big companies like HP are "excited" about the possibility of putting small PCs in America's homes, we think they're going to have to do some serious revamping (and possibily a bit of innovating, too) before they're going to be able to cannibalize their own laptop business and convince the end-user that small and chic is de rigueur.
The Tandberg unit, an end-to-end video conferencing system, is targeted at enterprises both small and large.
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And now, with the drop-dead date looming, the economic implications of political dysfunction are filling up the windshield of every small business as we race toward the year-end precipice.
There are lots of small initiatives, either at the user end -- e.g. turning off stand-by switches, drinking tap water -- or the supply end -- e.g. wind energy, tidal energy.
The Federation of Small Businesses immediately welcomed the move, which marks the end of an exhaustive three-year inquiry, as "a fair deal for small firms".
An alternative to EWG is the New Germany Fund ( GF), a closed-end fund that invests primarily in small- and mid-cap German companies.
If yesterday's exchanges are anything to go by, debates on any such legislation could turn very nasty - not least because all MPs have direct sharp-end experience of how important the small print of the regulations can be.
Demand for small cars shot up 27% while that for higher-end ones fell 10%.
Update: Forbes editor Janet Novack pointed out that some small businesses are also calling for expiration of the high-end tax cuts in contradiction to their purported interests.
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