After the South Sea Bubble burst in 1720, a ban on setting up joint stock companies lasted for 100 years.
That may lead other foreign banks to withdraw their money from Vietnam, leaving the joint stock banks in a mess.
American Express was founded in 1850 as a joint stock association and was incorporated in 1965 as a New York corporation.
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In the early days of capitalism a handful of joint stock investors would gather on the docks by their ship and discuss how much tea and spices they would buy.
The East Mediterranean Gas Company, based in Cairo, is "an Egyptian joint stock company" with the right to export gas to Israel from Egypt and to export to other locations in the region, according to Ampal's website.
Khalid and his four brothers inherited NCB upon their father's death in 1994, and a 21% stake was sold to a group of private investors when the bank morphed from an unlimited liability private partnership into a joint stock company.
Ownership of the other listed joint-stock banks Minsheng, Shanghai Pudong Development and China Merchants is much more concentrated.
V, the leading mutual insurer, has set up a joint-stock company, though not a publicly traded one.
Minsheng had 374 outlets at the end of 2008, 300 fewer than China Merchants, the largest joint-stock bank.
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LB, which is already a joint-stock company, but two groups of Sparkassen would still own most of the bank.
Local governments in Japan seem inclined towards the former notion, yet the act of joint-stock incorporation creates expectations of the second.
Another insurance mutual, Alte Leipziger, has organised a joint-stock holding company which, executives say, may eventually be listed on the stock exchange.
Some companies have to seek new financing channels to get funded, said a manager in charge of credit with a Chinese joint-stock bank.
The Middle East fell behind the West because it failed to produce commercial institutions most notably joint-stock companies that were capable of mobilising large quantities of productive resources and enduring over time.
Germany introduced laws to make it easier to establish joint-stock companies, scrapping ancient regulations, because so many German companies were taking advantage of the single European market and incorporating in Britain.
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But if the exec had changed the titling of the stock after moving and before her husband's death--say, by putting the stock in a joint account with right of survivorship--she would have lost that valuable community property step-up.
Mercedes and Toyota are in joint ventures with the company and its stock price has held up well since its IPO.
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So if an investor bought shares of a stock in his IRA within 30 days of selling shares of the same stock at a loss from a joint account, then it is up to him to tell the IRS about the wash sale.
He plans to form joint ventures in Singapore to raise money on the stock exchange there for further expansion.
His biggest personal lender also got a sweetheart deal in joint ventures with Chesapeake the corporation via a preferred stock transaction.
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In one case, a U.S. company sold stock in a Hong Kong company that owned a 49% interest in a Chinese joint venture.
Since then, the stock has been on an impressive march higher, boosted by recent news of the joint marketing deal between Shell and Westport Innovations (WPRT).
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Last week, the New York Stock Exchange announced it has taken an ownership stake in the Receivables Exchange and will form a joint program to offer trading in corporate accounts receivable.
Along the way, I texted friends, received a reminder about an upcoming ski trip and the need to refuel my car soon, considered an ad for a BBQ joint, got a notification about a traffic accident ahead and a recommendation on the speediest route around it, took stock of my stress level, and picked the closest and cheapest parking spot.
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