As Rob Wherry explains in Wall Street's Next Nightmare, short-selling is supposed to involve the borrowing of real stock certificates.
Typically, transferring stock is not as simple as signing over stock certificates.
"And now, " he says, "this is your company, " putting his money where his mouth is by handing ten-share Anicom stock certificates to all present.
She invested wisely, knew what she owned and remembered the multitude of unlikely places where her important financial documents (including stock certificates) and valuables were hidden.
Even the Americans acknowledge that the dream of handing out Russian-style stock certificates to Iraqi citizens or selling concessions to foreign companies is likely to remain just that.
Ford began printing stock certificates faster than the U.S. government prints money: 286 million new shares in 2007, 217 million shares the following year and 925 million shares in 2009.
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The only difference between the original hostile takeover- and leveraged buyout-predators of the 1980s and the current band of Internet dealmakers is that the new generation is using stock certificates instead of junk bonds to snap up rivals.
Shareholders may nominally own such corporations but their share certificates are more like preferred stock than ordinary shares.
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Over the past four years he has used E-Trade's once-roaring stock to acquire ever more services, offering the nation's top-yielding certificates of deposit, an asset-management arm and a cut-rate version of the "wrap" accounts invented by old-line brokers.
Over the past four years he has used E-Trade's once-roaring stock to acquire ever more services, offering the nation's top-yielding certificates of deposit, an asset management arm and a cut-rate version of the "wrap" accounts invented by old-line brokers.
The bulls clutch their certificates close to their chests, keeping the shares out of the broker's stock-lending department.
Another batch of can't-lose stock investments came in 1992, when commercial banks sold equity-linked, principal-protected certificates of deposit.
Rove was advised by transition lawyers not to sell his stocks until he received government certificates, which allow individuals who are entering government service and are obliged to sell stock to defer capital gains taxes, Gonzales said.
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