Word: discounting
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...It’s like you’re at some incredible discount sale fighting suburban mothers for red-tag exercise equipment,” says Kevin M. Haninger, a fifth year student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences who was not fortunate enough to secure a machine. “Except that it’s everyday...
...publishing mandarins' ire: he took their most potent weapon?their ability to fix prices?and turned it against them. One of the most stubborn vestiges of the Japanese government's protectionist bent is its 89-year-old saihan law, which makes it illegal to sell new books at a discount. The law's defenders spout a host of muddled rationales for preserving it, arguing variously that it promotes literacy or protects copyrights or maintains the intellectual integrity of the nation's literary output. This in a country where 37% of all books sold are comics. In practice...
...funds are closed-end mutual funds, which tend to trade at a price lower than their actual value, called a discount...
...Shareholders in closed-end funds trading at a discount would in many cases be better off if the fund would simply liquidate,” HMC wrote...
...calls it a “sham proposal” because it said Templeton simultaneously tried to convince shareholders to vote against the proposal. This maneuver, according to HMC, was intended to “give the appearance that the managers were (belatedly) serious about addressing the persistent discount,” while Templeton was not actually addressing the issue...