Apple shares are dropped for the third consecutive session Monday, as investors continue to take some of the fat profits the stock has generated in 2012.
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During the internet bubble, managers exercising fat packages of stock options paid a lot of tax at once, instead of a lesser amount spread over several years.
Nowadays you might still see a fat spread on a stock that trades only a few thousand shares a day.
Attracted to a stock with a fat dividend yield, but not so sure about the underlying company?
Did they close their eyes to wrongdoing so they could continue to sell stock and collect fat salaries?
In the case of Lockheed, lean valuations and a fat 5.2% yield make the stock look attractive, even with an uncertain future.
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The same was true for the stock market, everyone was getting fat and happy with questionable, if not out right criminal investments, why spoil the party asking unwanted questions.
That would have depressed the stock market, leaving the speculators with fat profits from selling the Hang Seng before it fell.
Perhaps he should indeed consider his retirement, let his mare grow fat, and live from what crops he could grow and what farm stock he could raise.
The story notes that unless the company gets an exemption, the company will receive a fat tax bill from the city when its employees opt to exercise their stock options once the company goes public.
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Kelley Wright, editor of Investment Quality Trends, finds that after the spectacular run, it's hard to find a utility stock trading at a reasonable price or one that offers a fat yield, but there are a few, including Atmos Energy and Pinnacle West Capital, yielding 4.3% and 5.3%, respectively.
The ministry said one of the effects of the fat tax was that some Danes had begun crossing the border into Germany to stock up on food there.
That fat price appreciation made it challenging for the pundits to get all that worked up about the stock, which is trading modestly lower this morning.
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