With interest rates currently low, many companies are borrowing funds to repurchase corporate shares.
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While the reduction of debt will reduce the Federal Government's liabilities, the corporate shares will increase the Federal Government's assets.
In corporate news, shares of Lennar jumped after the home builder's fiscal first-quarter earnings and revenue topped forecasts.
This past November the Sandridge board changed corporate bylaws requiring a majority of shares outstanding rather than a simple majority of shares voting to enact a change in corporate governance.
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The decline in Shanghai is mainly a regional exchange issue, rather than a broader trend with China shares and corporate earnings.
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Some company shares, corporate bonds and residential mortgages have been added to the list, which previously only included assets such as government bonds.
To offset the dilution occasioned by the option handouts, the issuer can, of course, use corporate cash to buy shares in the open market.
State enterprises can also improve their corporate governance by selling shares to the public, which CMG has done, most notably in its toll road subsidiaries.
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These days, if they have endowments to invest, most nonprofits have little interest in conservative investments like corporate bonds and preferred shares that produce moderate, stable returns.
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But they are not well-positioned for a a downturn: despite the boom in Internet shares, corporate America has much more debt compared with equity than it did.
Perhaps the most striking characteristics of today's agreement - which amends a draft first published in 2010 - is that banks will be allowed to include corporate bonds, some shares and high-quality residential mortgage backed securities in their permitted stocks of liquid assets.
"You should be a good corporate citizen and vote your shares, " says Kaufman.
In corporate news, Chesapeake Energy shares continued to surge after the company said controversial billionaire chief Aubrey McClendon will retire in April.
And if you tack on their shares of the corporate income tax and the estate tax, their effective tax rate hit 24.5 percent.
BlackRock High Income Shares and BlackRock Corporate High Yield Fund III, BlackRock Corporate High Yield Fund V and BlackRock Corporate High Yield Fund VI.
In other words all types of insider and corporate buying of their own shares and others for cash is down about 50% from the average monthly rate for all of 2011.
One scrutinizes investment banks' doling out of initial-offering shares to executives of corporate clients.
Shareholders own shares outright, whereas corporate executives are long call options.
These include worries over the application of best-execution rules to securities other than shares, such as corporate bonds or specialised derivatives, that are traded off-exchange.
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Shortly after the public announcement of the relevant corporate transaction, BAUER sold the shares that he had acquired, usually resultingin substantial profits for BAUER, KLUGER, and CC-l.
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It has had talks with financial-services rivals in the past and, if it did a deal, it is likely to convert and list shares in its international corporate and wholesale arm.
Second, unlike employees in an agency shop, corporate shareholders are not compelled to buy shares or otherwise support a corporation.
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Corporate search, known officially as Google Search Appliance, is used to look through things like corporate databases, emails, and file shares.
Michael Brown, manager of Corporate Development at Facebook, bought the shares back in September 2010, according to a report from TechCrunch.
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Therefore until inflows into U.S. equity funds stop and corporate America overwhelms the market with new shares I will not increase my short position.
Riding the twin prongs of surging corporate profits and expansive global growth, shares have roundly outperformed other asset classes in the face of widespread disbelief.
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Back in the day when dividend taxes were even higher than they are set to be in 2013, some corporate chieftains got very good at retiring shares.
Corporate executives should be paid bonuses in shares that can be sold only once they leave the company, and the bonuses of asset managers should consist of holdings in their own funds.
On the other side of the ledger, these investment managers are probably soliciting to manage their employee retirement funds as well as corporate pension assets of many companies whose shares they may vote.
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