You'll get nicked a bit by the options floor traders, but probably less than the costs incorporated in the broker-sold note.
On one three-year property-backed note sold by Nippon Credit Bank, for example, 80% of the income goes to taxes.
Note that these books sold are copies, and a limited edition of them are available at The Tolkien Library.
That tops Research in Motion's 12.1 million units sold, as Jobs was quick to note.
In 1971 a Merc member who had had a bad day sold his seat for a Ben Franklin note, a transaction that took place alongside a urinal in the trading floor men's room.
It is interesting to note that most of these assets sold are liquids rich, which means that they contain a significant amount of oil or natural gas liquids.
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The company came out with an updated version with an even larger screen called the Galaxy Note II a few months later and sold another 5 million (at last count), a very big achievement for a single Android device.
It's not clear what LG's share was, but here's a little insight on the battle of the tabletphones: back in April, we were told that about 3, 000 Optimus Vus were sold per day, whereas Samsung's Galaxy Note did between 4, 000 to 5, 000 per day.
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By now, the Note II and Galaxy S III have likely sold well over 40 million units combined.
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Note that supplies are limited, and systems will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Morgan Stanley is out with a note this morning saying it does not believe ARM will get sold.
They note also that most products advertised through direct response media is actually sold in traditional retail channels.
This is a significant figure to note, because for example, shares of Apple have been short sold only about 0.5%, Samsung over 2% and other telecom companies about 4% in general.
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U.S. Treasury bonds also sold off on the Fed news, with the yield on the 10-year note rising above 2% for the first time since March.
After reviewing my initial promissory note from Chase Bank, it has come to my attention that on the promissory note it states that the loans provided by the bank would not be sold to another provider unless the loans had come into default.
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We note that a 5% market share this year would imply around 80 million smartphones sold.
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Then, in the fall, Samsung launched the Galaxy Note II, an upgraded version with an even larger screen and it promptly sold 5 million of them, and is on track to sell 20 million over the course of the year.
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