Dividends provide the comfort of an income stream and cushion against falling stock prices.
Buffett and Munger care not a whit for the direction of the market, other than to revel in the opportunities afforded by falling stock prices.
But myths and misperceptions aside, how are companies run by women doing in terms of the ultimate yardstick of success: rising or falling stock prices?
Cue falling stock prices, crisis talks and another round of restructuring.
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If that happens, selling will beget more selling, and falling stock prices will cut investment, consumer spending (via the wealth effect), and tax receipts.
Investment banks have been suffering from heavy write-offs from subprime mortgage debt and their falling stock prices have made it harder for them to raise money.
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So the current downturn in the computer business, the worst in PC-dom's 18 year history, hits Singapore two ways -- in slumping export figures and in falling stock prices.
Securities lawyers are looking to use that precedent to hem in class actions over falling stock prices, for example, and a case heard earlier this year, Italian Colors vs.
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After slumping sales and falling stock prices, retailer J.
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The U.S. Supreme Court once again confounded critics who accuse it of a pro-business bias, unanimously rejecting a lower-court decision that would have made it harder to pursue securities class actions based on falling stock prices.
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We should see falling stock prices too.
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We know this because gold prices were falling, even as stock prices were rising.
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The temptation is to love him when stock prices are rising and leave him when stock prices are falling.
"The economy still faces powerful contractionary forces in the shape of widespread recession abroad, and at home falling house prices and stock markets, blunted monetary policy as banks constrain lending and rock-bottom business and consumer confidence, " says Andrew Smith, chief economist at KPMG.
Got to tell you, stock prices continued falling in the United States this morning.
Rising stock prices, falling applications for unemployment benefits and a gain in housing permits drove the index higher.
Got to tell you, stock prices continued falling in the U.S. this morning.
In general, low inflation and rising GDP are good for stocks while high inflation and falling GDP can weigh on stock prices.
These allegations, compounded by falling natural gas prices caused the stock to fall by over 50% during the first half of 2012.
Falling gas prices, a rallying stock market and gains in the job market all fueled Americans' shopping habits even as cold weather tempered their desire to buy spring fashions.
Increasing investor risk appetite in the market place, as evidenced by rallying stock indexes and falling U.S. Treasury prices, has worked to pressure the safe-haven precious metals late this week.
Nabors Industries stock began to rise and bond prices began falling.
Much of the money has come from Europe, in particular from Spain, a fact that was reflected in falling share prices, especially of banking stocks, when the Madrid Stock Market opened on Thursday.
In Asia, Japan restricted investor bets on falling share prices, so-called "short selling, " to try to end a stock market slide that has particularly hit its banking sector.
The stock has essentially been falling since late July last year, hit by production cutbacks as warmer weather and regulation hurt prices, along with lower demand for utilities switching to cheaper natural gas.
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