With this sort of contract, the owner of a big, highly appreciated stock position gets an upfront payment from an investment firm--typically for 75% to 85% of the value of his shares--in exchange for agreeing to deliver a variable number of shares or cash in the future, with the exact amount dependent on how the stock performs.
Investors who have bought in cheap--one Philly source says the stock exchange has doubled in value since last year--could be hoping to sell.
The PVF allows the investor to receive an up-front payment (typically, 75-85% market value) in exchange for delivery of a variable amount of shares or cash in the future, at which time the capital gain is realized for tax purposes and the tax on the capital gain is paid.
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They also bolster equity values and, by encouraging international capital to look elsewhere, reduce the value of the dollar in foreign-exchange markets.
This is the value of an exchange-rate peg in an economy such as Hong Kong's: adjustment to external shocks takes place through changes to domestic prices, rather than through exchange-rate levels.
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Truth be told, I love them too and I own value stocks in my retirement account via exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and DFA funds.
The dollar surged in value against the kyat and the foreign-exchange certificates.
"Money has a value way beyond the simple amount it is worth in exchange - it has an almost mythic or religious quality, " says Doty.
State control is thus put at risk--not least in regards to the exchange value of the yuan, which is currently tracking a weakening U.S. dollar and getting further out of kilter with where standard analysis would have it float.
The WSJ Dollar Index is an attempt to improve on existing indexes by basing its value on actual, up-to-date turnover by all participants in the foreign-exchange market.
In some countries that had exchange-rate appreciations exports moved up the value chain: this also helped.
The New York Stock Exchange-listed company has lost about 40% of its value in the past two days.
Worse, in the networked economy that we live in, a substantial part of a product's value derives from compatibility--the ability to seamlessly exchange data with others using the same system.
As in other global exchanges, high-frequency trading has grown in importance and now constitutes 40% of the value of all trades on the Tokyo market, according to exchange figures, up from 20% in mid-2010.
It is also uncertain that the technologies ostensibly to be "flowed-back" to the United States in exchange for the F-16 technical data, etc. will be of comparable value to the U.S. defense industry as will, for example, insights provided to the Japanese into U.S. sophisticated design and manufacturing techniques.
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"We think there may be a possibility for a compromise in exchange for some value, and the Liberty side can be persuaded to give up their super-voting rights, " said Sanford C.
Thursday's trading appeared to continue a pattern of unusual moves over the past week between the stock and foreign-exchange markets, where a fall in Japanese share prices seemed to be driving down the value of the dollar against the yen.
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