That does not mean that the economy will actually slow enough to drag year-end stock prices down, however.
Penney filing may be for year-end employee stock awards.
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Still, there remain some significant catalysts that may drive the stock market up before year end.
Say at the end of last year I told you a stock you bought then would climb 41%.
And I completely resent the 2007 law, to go into effect January 1, that will ban their manufacture, and eventually their sale, in the U.S. So imagine my glee this morning that I could postpone that year-end trip to the hardware store to stock up on a lifetime supply of 100 watts.
If no deal happens, then stock prices will trade lower through year end.
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The bottom line is that we are likely to see more sharp jolts to the stock market between now and year-end.
Alert: If you are tempted to sell appreciated stock before the end of the year, you may also be concerned about the wash sale rule.
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Most people think that charity is simply writing a check (or donating stock) at the end of the year.
This is the company's first set of results since floating on the stock exchange at the end of last year.
Today as stock markets around the world end the year lower than they started where should we put our money in 2001?
Note that NFLX shares rank among the best-performing shares for the year to date: since the end of December, the stock has rallied almost 45%.
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If Cephalon is able to hit the low end of its earnings target for this year, the stock seems quite cheap at less than 9x 2010 earnings.
But the losers, owing to bad advice, company restrictions on sales, ignorance or greed didn't sell before the end of the year--or before their companies' stock bombed.
In the very short-term Apple stock is likely to benefit from abatement of year-end tax related selling.
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Chief executive Rupert Soames sent a gently negative message at the end of last year about future prospects, for which investors punished the stock price.
The January effect is also a stock market phenomenon that occurs at the end of the year as investors begin to fret over taxes.
College students who are currently over the age of 18 can take advantage of the present law by selling appreciated stock and mutual fund holdings before the end of the year and realizing those capital gains on their 2007 tax return.
China Unicom at the end of last year, and reports claimed that overwhelming demand had led to stock sell-outs within hours.
Traders may want to stay away from the stock, as it may fall further due to end of the year selling by investors looking to write off losses.
Vignette's CEO, Gregory Peters, says the software shop could break into the black by the end of next year--less than two years after its wildly successful public stock offering.
Vignette's chief executive, Gregory Peters, says the software shop could break into the black by the end of next year--less than two years after its wildly successful public stock offering.
First, because of end of the year selling by professional money managers who are embarrassed to hold a stock that has lost close to 70 percent of its value over the last 12 months.
The donors proposed the gift of private stock on Dec. 29 and wanted to complete it by year-end (to take the tax deduction for the charitable gift in 1999), but the charity's approval process for stock gifts couldn't work that fast.
Quite a turnaround for a stock which fell almost 77% from July through the end of last year.
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