It has also helped to push up share values and the value of the corporate bonds.
Expectations about faster growth and hence higher future profits have helped to push up share prices.
Executives said they expect to generate more free cash over the next five years and ramp up share repurchases to improve investor returns.
For all his talk of the perils of irrational exuberance, Mr Greenspan has been adept at pumping up share prices in the past.
But the most likely reason why investors accept dilution is that many of them believe options drive up share prices, making them wealthy too.
Therefore they have no need to inflate earnings figures and push up share prices because the main group of people they would be cheating would be themselves.
Ahead of the reopening of the stockmarkets, for instance, regulators relaxed several rules on such things as share buybacks, in the hope of propping up share prices.
The spurt in productivity growth in America has pushed up share prices in anticipation of future productivity gains, and also improved the competitiveness of American goods, thus increasing the dollar's long-term equilibrium level.
Citigroup (C) CEO Vikram Pandit said at a recent Goldman Sachs Financial Services conference that there were opportunities for the bank to pick up share in trade finance, where French banks have traditionally been active and are now pulling out.
As Gillian also heard in compiling the Business Scotland programme, there are significant success stories in the sector - the rapid growth of Skyscanner, based in central Edinburgh and using some very smart software to eat up share of the vast online airline ticket booking market.
Expect Apple to gobble up share in the coming quarters, however, thanks to the launch of the iPad 2. iPad shipments fell 31% from the fourth-quarter as Apple struggled to keep up with strong demand for a new version of its tablet computer during its transition to a new model.
Starting with the good news, CMO investors saw their quarterly dividend jump by 50%, from 26 cents per share up to 39 cents per share.
Investors pushed up the share price from 5 cents to 20 cents after Contreras left.
It's a time to catch up and share stories, eat barbecue and have a good time.
You can back up or share your music and photo libraries as you head out the door.
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Blue chip companies, however, set sustainable dividend policies that will continue to hold up their share prices.
In the short term some of the old ways to perk up your share price now seem suicidal.
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That drove up the share price of both but threatened their long-term strategy.
The clampdown could force some players to exit the business, which would free up market share for larger lenders.
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The entire board had a strong motive to keep up the share price.
Einhorn said last week the move would renew investor confidence in Apple, helping to drive up the share price.
She also opened up to share her philanthropic failures that have evolved and shaped her approach to giving now.
The government's second proposal is to set up a share-buying fund to help shrink the banks' loss-ridden equity portfolios.
The important thing is for the environment to feel safe, so that people will open up and share their ideas.
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As Apple's gadgets gobbled up market share (and in some cases created new markets), its Macs experienced a rebound, too.
He also agreed to give up his share of the Royal Brothers Building at a premium to the market price.
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