In Indonesia, state-owned stock brokerages routinely reserve shares in new issues for the well-connected, usually relations of President Suharto.
While it would be hard to sing the same tune regarding the overall state of the stock market in the U.S. it might be okay to hum along.
The Asian financial crisis has taken a terrible toll on the state, both on the stock market and on the tourism business which drives the state's economy.
The most important target for your efforts is your state legislature, which holds the power to mandate legislatively the divestment of stock by your state's public pension systems.
The reality is that State revenues vary with the stock market.
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"Our state government has become the laughing stock of the nation, " he said then.
As its ratings and stock price plummeted, State Farm and National Life stopped selling its products.
Overseas markets were mixed, as surprising losses by the State Bank of India pushed their stock market to a two-month low.
As our talk turned to the state of the world's stock markets, de Botton recounted a conversation with one of GAM's newer clients.
And for the past four weeks, the stock market has reflected the state of angst by correcting lower.
Theme parks are sensitive to the state of the economy, and the stock trades at a nosebleed valuation of 32 times expected 2013 earnings.
This will be a big test for the Batista brothers and for Brazil's tropical brand of capitalism, which mixes family control with traded stock, and finance from state-run banks with foreign acquisitions.
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In a report on India's economy, the consultancy points out that 43% of India's capital stock is owned by the state, and that the productivity of these assets is well below the Indian average (see chart).
When banks become members of the Federal Reserve System, which is mandatory for national banks and voluntary for state banks, they have to purchase stock in their local Federal Reserve Bank equal to six percent of their own capital and surplus.
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And global stock markets are in a frothy state and seem due for a correction.
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The stock and bonds of this huge state-owned enterprise or its affiliates are held by several of this nation's largest pension funds.
Much depends on whether you move with the idea of returning to the state or intend to leave permanently lock, stock, and barrel.
North Carolina's state treasurer asked the SEC to investigate these stock sales and raised questions about changes made to Mozilo's plan in the months before the company's stock plummeted.
Research by Andrew Karolyi, of Ohio State University (who advises the New York Stock Exchange), and others finds that when foreign companies list in America, more analysts start covering them, and the extra transparency and higher governance standards demanded by American law helps their share prices.
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But Merrill also reaches deep into the funds through its brokerage business, which executes stock trades for pension funds in the state.
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Having lost half its value in the past year, the stock seems to fully reflect the current state of affairs at the firm.
Corporate earnings are what ultimately cause stock prices to rise, and the state of the economy has a huge influence on how companies will fare.
In reality, the stock price reflects nothing more than the state of the current market value, as influenced by public mood swings between irrational exuberance and craven terror.
The majority of the companies listed on the mainland's two stock markets in Shanghai and Shenzhen are state owned firms and only small portions of those companies are traded.
Regulators in Britain told Macquarie Bank that if it did not state its firm intention to bid for the London Stock Exchange by December 15th it would be banned from doing so for six months.
Robin Alexander, the government's head of hospitality, told the BBC that the "vast majority" of his work was taken up with ministerial hospitality, rather than state banquets, which used the "reliable" stock rather than "top wines".
The problem is that the fish that formed the base of the hatchery brood stock used to replenish salmon in Maine's rivers came from the Penobscot River until 1992, when state officials began a river-specific stocking program that placed descendents only in rivers their stock came from.
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Maybe by exercising certain kinds of stock options in a later year or paying state taxes late.
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