Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy initially planned to open 200 Best Buy stores across the UK and continental Europe.
At that time Best Buy had plans to open several of its big box stores in Europe, but the difficulties both Best Buy and Europe have faced since the recession made it tough to implement the plans.
Workers will be able to buy plans in new exchanges set to open in 2014, and many lower earners can claim insurance tax credits in those marketplaces.
Though it costs an investor real money to buy options on the open market, there is no tangible cost for a company to create some options internally and then issue them to employees.
But if your partner doesn't have his or her own insurance, and is looking to buy insurance on the open market, you're better off adding him or her to your plan.
We didn't discover until after it was too late that there weren't enough provisions focused on accountability of the funds, as well as mandates to ensure banks didn't sit on the cash to buy other banks but instead used it to open up the credit lines.
Lant Pritchett, the former World Bank economist, shares Mr. Guest's skepticism about the importance of the much ballyhooed microloans that help the world's poorest people to buy livestock or open a small business.
To offset the dilution occasioned by the option handouts, the issuer can, of course, use corporate cash to buy shares in the open market.
Buying mortgage origination and servicing businesses gives investment banks a chance to beef up their mortgage securitization businesses with a source of new loans to package without having to buy them on the open market.
With the ECB determined to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro and the Fed promising to buy securities in the open market until the cows come how, world without end, Amen, then that chips some of the downside risk.
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Bargain hunters tend to pay particular attention to insider buys like this one, because presumably the only reason an insider would take their hard-earned cash and use it to buy stock of their company in the open market, is that they expect to make money.
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Everyone out of debt, everyone with the spending power to buy the produced goods that companies need to sell to stay open, everyone with something in the bank to fall back on in the future, everyone with a bit of funds to invest for retirement, and most of all the amount of stress being felt by just about everyone lifted to bearable levels.
If we were to move - the open air market they would have to buy lorries and vans to get the produce from wherever we finish up, up to their place.
Current Pfizer shareholders must go into the open market to buy Zoetis shares.
Several studies find, for instance, that when an electricity generator can choose between the output of many nearby coalmines that produce coal of a particular quality, it tends to buy its coal on an open market.
Before the new rules a mutual fund or hedge fund that wanted to dump 100, 000 shares of Microsoft quickly could, for example, bypass the New York Stock Exchange and sell them all at once on a different exchange if it saw an open order to buy 100, 000 shares--even if the offer price on the NYSE was a nickel higher.
Before the new rules a mutual fund or hedge fund that wanted to dump 100, 000 shares of Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) quickly could, for example, bypass the New York Stock Exchange and sell them all at once on a different exchange if it saw an open order to buy 100, 000 shares--even if the offer price on the NYSE was a nickel higher.
Best Buy entered into a partnership with the mobile phone retailer in 2010 with plans to open 200 stores and expand the concept under the Best Buy banner in the U.S. with standalone stores.
That forces the Cleveland mill to buy more costly steel on the open market.
Maybe there are two dozen operators in this league but nobody knows when their open-to-buy dries up.
For that, Facebook wants brands to open their wallets to buy regular ads.
The hope was that this would be enough to persuade the European Central Bank to open its wallet and buy more government bonds.
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De Beers also says it has leant on wholesale purchasers who buy from its stockpile, but also buy diamonds on the open market, to follow suit.
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Pam and Todd Turkin, co-founders of the Just Baked Shop LLC, have struggled for years to secure a bank loan in order to open new locations and buy equipment.
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Ironically, it was concern by AOL that it would be shut out of high-speed, broadband internet services that led it to advocate "open-access" to cable systems - before it decided to buy Time Warner to assure its access to such services.
Part of our saving might go in the bank, where it will be available to lend to someone who is looking to buy a house or a car or open a new business.
The French president wants the eurozone's bailout funds to buy sovereign bonds of troubled states on the open market.
So we acted to get lending flowing again, so companies like yours could get loans to buy equipment and restock, keep your doors open, make payroll.
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