And it was private. It was not a public company with shares traded on the stock market.

VOA: special.2010.11.28

When you do a split, you're changing the number of shares for everybody, so it can have no effect on the ratio for anybody; it's just purely appearance.

当进行分割时,每个人拥有的股数变了,但每个人持股的比率没变,只是做做样子罢了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You just have to keep remembering that all that matters for a company-- for you as a--your interest in a company depends on your shares divided by the total number of shares.

你只需要记住,公司在意的只是,你在公司中的利益取决于,你的股数除以总股数

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Shares of Goldman Sachs fell for a second day Monday following accusations on Friday that the U.S.investment firm defrauded investors.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

You can call your broker and say, I'd like to short stock number one and what the broker will do is borrow the shares on your behalf and sell them and then you own negative shares.

你可以打电话给你的经纪人说，我要做空一号股票,经纪人就会在你的名下赊入这些股票,然后卖掉,这样你就拥有数量为负的股票了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选