Word: investor
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...gleefully trumpeted the fact that Global Crossing had given more than half its $800,000 in campaign contributions to the Democrats during the last presidential campaign. And the G.O.P. raised tantalizing questions about how Democratic Party chairman Terry McAuliffe had managed to make an $18 million killing as an investor in Global Crossing stock...
...have sympathy for all shareholders of Enron who lost so much in the company's collapse. A point to consider for future investing: Warren Buffett, unquestionably a savvy investor, follows a simple rule of never investing in a business he doesn't understand. My guess is that only a small percentage of Enron investors understood the energy-trading business the company was in. How many losses could have been avoided if these investors had just adhered to Buffett's easy-to-follow rule. DANIEL MCADAM Poultney...
...Wall Street, though, moves a lot faster, particularly when it's in the legislative crosshairs, and if we're really lucky many of the excesses of the earnings-driven, expectations-obsessed, stock-price-is-king investor culture of the last half-decade will be cleaned up by investors themselves. One plus of a stock-obsessed corporate world: It's self-policing. When investors find a suspiciously Enron-ish company, they just sell...
...presidential election results in civil war. Next to AIDS and the crime rate, Zimbabwe is just about the biggest crisis worrying South Africans, some of whom blame the Mugabe government directly for a critical slide in the value of their currency, the rand, and a lack of investor confidence. The local American Chamber of Commerce estimated last year that South Africa had lost $3 billion worth of potential foreign investment because of Zimbabwe. The Brussels-based International Crisis Group reports that southern Africa as a whole will miss out on $36 billion in possible investment as a result of Zimbabwe...
...real problem with Volkswagen as an investment is that its largest shareholder is the state of Lower Saxony, which holds 18.2% of the shares and is more interested in preserving jobs than enhancing shareholder return. There is also a law on VW's books preventing any other investor from holding more than 20% of the company, an effective bar to a takeover bid. For these reasons VW's share price languishes at 1997 levels. "The feeling is that the management in place has tended to give low priorities to investors, having several other constituencies that come higher up the attention...