They get their income from dividends, not from the issue of new shares or from a fancy incentive scheme linked to the share price.

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Relations with western shareholders, for example, are extremely poor not least because the company management is considering a large issue of new shares, supposedly to compensate unpaid or newly sacked workers.

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That evening, Credit Suisse announced it would issue new shares of the ETN on a limited basis, raising eyebrows among traders who wondered if word of the move leaked out.

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He thinks that the company should issue a new class of perpetual preferred shares as a way to distribute some of its huge cash flows to investors.

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Much of the money would come from requiring companies to issue new shares, say up to a value of 10-20% of their annual profits.

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As announced on 9 July 2012, ASML can issue new shares equivalent to 9.99% of its issued share capital to Intel as per the authorizations granted at ASML's 2012 Annual General Meeting of shareholders.

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The other way of doing it is Ziff-Davis': Issue all the new tracking shares directly to the public to raise cash now.

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Although no one knows who will actually get their hands on the oversubscribed new issue, a handful of Indian investors are likely to end up owning a small number of Facebook shares when it first launches on May 18.

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The bank's plan to issue 308.6 million new common shares was aimed at "strengthening the bank's equity capital in light of expected regulatory changes, " Chief Executive Josef Ackermann said.

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