The sixty-third anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima should serve as an opportunity for urgent stock-taking.
Even the most superficial stock-taking leads to similar conclusions: Important constraints currently exist on the United States' ability to project power effectively and swiftly over long distances.
It's hard to believe that I'm currently writing the words I seem to be writing, though a casual stock-taking of my senses dictates that it must be true.
Journalists -- CNN's finest among them -- taking stock to assess its recovery from the day the world's most developed nation experienced a fate more akin to that suffered virtually every day in the developing world.
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And the President has long advocated that in lieu of cash, any bonus that is given ought to be given in long-term stock that does not, again, reward short-term risk taking, but rewards long-term success.
Part of self-knowledge stems from taking stock of the situation now and what you want to accomplish near and short term.
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Still, Vertex shares are down 11% for the month on profit-taking, although the stock has notched a 34% gain over the past 12 months.
To put it another way, the impression was created that UBS was taking no more risk than usual, when in reality it was taking huge risks on stock-market bets.
The stock opened up big, and some profit-taking has taken FB down from its highest levels.
Traders will be watching Apple closely today, with the stock often seeing some profit taking following post-earnings gap ups.
Their discount is off whatever the current stock price is--meaning they can turn a quick profit by selling the stock immediately, before taking possession of the new shares.
But the stock has suffered losses lately, due to profit-taking and concerns about how long its growth can last.
Intelligent consumers, for instance, carefully examine their economic situation, taking stock of their human and non-human resources, ranking and prioritizing their needs and desires the need to be satisfied first, second, and so on in order to derive the maximum return from their human and non-human resources, as it is taught in standard economic books.
Seems to me what we have here is some profit-taking in a red-hot momentum stock.
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In this context, it is likely that the selling in the stock over the past few days consists largely of profit-taking.
Should there be additional selling in the rest of the sector, traders should be alert to the potential for profit-taking in a high-flying utility stock such as Oneok.
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Credit unions are not-for-profit financial cooperatives that are prohibited from selling stock or taking on debt.
Taking a closer look at the stock's short-term performance, JNPR has soared along the support of its 10-day and 20-day moving averages since August.
Miller also defrauded another broker-dealer into taking on a significant short position in Apple stock to hedge against the large purchase of Apple stock he was executing at Rochdale, authorities said.
Major U.S. stock indices finished near flat Thursday, taking a break after a steep three-day rally.
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Just two years ago, Beijing was taking the opposite tack - warning potential investors against too much stock speculation.
Property-and-telecommunications group Metro Pacific is taking a beating in the Manila stock market, as is conglomerate First Pacific in Hong Kong.
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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In 1972, despite the Dow's return to record territory, mutual-fund investors were so skittish that they kept taking money out of stock funds.
However, Arca wouldn't be able to trade NYSE-listed securities, taking one of the 13 U.S. stock exchanges out of the loop for brokers, according to persons familiar with the plan's working.
Tuesday, the 42-year-old descendant of the company's founder had his first meeting with stock analysts since taking the top post in October 2006.
Over recent years, European politicians also reacted only to periodic scary plunges in their stock and bond markets, taking belated and panicked actions each time to repeatedly kick the euro-zone debt crisis down the road.
And despite the mind-boggling technology now involved in high-frequency trading, where algorithms do battle in slivers of a second, the stock world is taking on shades of a street fair in Mexico City.
The trader significantly decreased the cost of taking a directional stance on the stock by employing a call spread instead of buying the closer-to-the-money calls outright.
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"We were expecting a statement to the stock market on Tuesday saying a consortium - partly French, partly Canadian - based in Aberdeen - will be taking over the UK search and rescue fleet starting from 2012, " he told BBC Wales.
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