In the U.S., the recent rally in the averages have pushed up stock prices.
We're bottoms-up stock-pickers, but we also factor in our overall view of the world.
The SEC charges Ballas with goosing up stock prices using positive, but false, company announcements.
Investors have been pretty pleased with profits so they have bid up stock prices.
His nose for a beaten-up stock poised to rebound has served him well.
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They will make calls, listen to both e-mail and voice messages and give spoken instructions to pull up stock prices.
But, remember, this was the major program that everyone points towards when they claim how effective QE was in pushing up stock market prices.
Most notable was after the internet and tech bubbles burst and investment banks were investigated for providing biased research to pump up stock prices of certain technology companies.
In 2005, the SEC adopted Regulation NMS, aimed at opening up stock trading to greater competition and ending the duopoly of the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market.
The valuation of Japanese companies given their extremely high levels of efficiency mean that one should jump in and pick up stock in the world class names such as Honda and Toyota, Komatsu or Sony and Fujitsu.
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His faith is derived from the belief that even if the US economy deteriorates and fails to raise markets through organic growth, the Fed will certainly step in with enough liquidity to push up stock and bond prices.
However, at some point soon maybe within a few months the financial markets will wake up to the reality that governments cannot create economic prosperity by using fake money to pay their bills as well as prop up stock and bond prices.
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John Reese, editor of the Validea Hot List, has set up stock screens that mimic the investing criteria of the some of the most skilled investors on record--guys like Warren Buffet, Benjamin Graham, Peter Lynch, William O'Neil and about a half dozen more.
In fact, over a quarter of its outstanding stock is taken up with stock options.
It cut interest rates to hold the U.S. stock market up, producing another round of irrational exuberance, and boosting the stock market up into the 1999 bubble.
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The only investors who end up having effective control are hedge funds or corporate activists (which used to be called raiders) who buy up enough stock to force their will upon a company that has messed up bigtime.
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Once it has fully revived and revved-up, the stock could end up doubling within 12 to 18 months, according to the bulls, who cite at least three reasons why it would.
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With Redkite, if a compliance officer sees a stock price go up 17 percent in a minute and the tolerance is 7 percent, he can walk over to tap the head of trading and say John Smith has put the stock up 17 percent.
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And while they're at it, they should restore the stock up-tick rule for shorting equities--that is, no short selling of a stock unless the price has moved up.
But the statement was enough to pump up HAL stock 12% in a day.
Most of that net worth is tied up in stock in his own company.
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There is also the perception that the government is obsessed with pushing up the stock market.
He said he'd picked up preferred stock in a company called Dyncorp at a terrific bargain price.
In news that is driving up the stock this afternoon, Netflix posted better-than-expected fourth quarter profits.
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Unlike Facebook, it can also count on the loyalty of its customers to prop up its stock.
Margin traders rarely show up in stock-ownership surveys, although they are perhaps the heirs to the rice traders of old.
At AboveNet, Meister propped up the stock some 41% in a very short time by orchestrating a takeover.
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He had earlier set up the stock exchange in Nairobi and in Colombo.
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