Sellers, on the other hand, prefer selling stock because of taxes.
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Sellers, on the other hand, prefer to sell stock, not assets.
Markets prefer congressional inaction, and the stock run-up that we have experienced since the inauguration is living proof.
Instead, we all would prefer a slow but steady climb in stock prices.
Granted, many wealthy Chinese prefer to invest in hard assets than in the stock market or low yielding bonds.
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In a fishery with a large, unproductive stock that grows slowly, fishermen may prefer short-term profit to the promise of low long-term income and catch all the fish straight away.
At this stage of the game, I believe that the stock market and Mr. Bernanke would prefer to do away with the not-too-cold part of the formula and get this economy moving forward as fast as humanly possible.
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Big companies have a big advantage in recruiting today's most valuable resource: talent. (Graduates have debts, and many prefer the certainty of a salary to the lottery of stock in a start-up.) Large firms are getting better at avoiding bureaucratic stagnation: they are flattening their hierarchies and opening themselves up to ideas from elsewhere.
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But like all things in the stock market, the link is messier than one would prefer.
In addition to Swype, you've got access to the stock Android 2.1 keyboard (which some folks prefer) in addition to a Samsung one, which is further configurable as full QWERTY, XT9, or -- on the Captivate only -- a handwriting mode, though it's more trouble than it's worth.
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If investors, who usually prefer that comparable companies use the same accounting, ask Pepsi to show stock option expenses for 2002, grants made in the last quarter when Pepsi's stock was riding high would take earnings lower.
State TV said Iran would prefer to buy uranium for its research reactor, rather than send its own stock abroad for enrichment, as proposed.
The LSE board may prefer the approach from Euronext--the owner of the Paris and Amsterdam stock exchanges, which pledged to give London significant control over the U.K.'s markets.
Though I might prefer to buy it at a slightly cheaper valuation than I see today, this is the kind of stock you can buy, tuck into a drawer, and forget about.
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