Global Links is, in fact, a sub-penny stock company and has done several such reverse splits over the last few years.

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Global Links has also sued the DTCC for defamation over a line in the media statement that suggested sub-penny stock companies try to artificially raise their stock prices by doing 350-to-1 reverse splits.

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Google says its Mini customers range from appliance maker Sub-Zero to the Nasdaq stock market, public-sector patrons such as the city of Bloomington, Ill. and the University of Oklahoma.

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It has also bought all Republic's stock, and sub-brands SoulCal, Fabric and Crafted.

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While I am optimistic about the prospects for continued growth in the U.S. economy (albeit sub-standard growth from a historical perspective) and for the stock market overall for 2013, I remain concerned that many of the same headline risks that were in place heading out of 2012 may still prove to be headwinds in 2013.

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Foreign institutional investors and their sub-accounts can invest directly into any of the stocks listed on any of the stock exchanges.

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And sure enough, the greed got seriously out of hand and then imploded, in fact twice, once with the bursting of the stock market bubble of 2000, and then even more seriously with the real estate and sub-prime mortgage bubble and resulting financial meltdown of 2008-2009.

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The other metric that we follow very closely is credit spreads, and this is the difference between the yield between the sub-investment-grade bonds and the ten-year Treasuries, where the recent monthly returns in the stock market is favorable, when credit spreads are normal, compared to when spreads are very wide.

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