Word: investors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, an investor might want to acquire 100 shares of IBM. On April 7, before the surge, it would have cost him $240 a share, or $24,000 plus commissions. But he could have bought a three-month option on IBM for $2 a share, or $200 for 100 shares. This would have given him the right to buy those shares at any time over the next three months for $260 a share. So if the price rose much above $260, he would turn a handsome profit. As it happened, IBM closed last week at $266, and option holders...
...market during the past few weeks. But he argues that it is only one factor: "The rally was one of the broadest based I have ever seen. There is more buying to come from institutions and from abroad." And, he adds, "we are not even counting the small investor, who could further increase the rate of gain when he decides it is finally time...
...proves impossible to use the work of the ACSR and the Investor Responsibility Research Center, which Harvard helped set up in 1973 to investigate the social and ethical implications of investment decisicns, then Radcliffe may have to set up its own stock advisory structure, Wolfman said...
Although it expects far-reaching changes from the improvement of working conditions in U.S. firms, the report minimizes the firms' role in South Africa in other areas. It claims U.S. investment represents "only a small faction of the local economy." This is simply untrue. As the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), a Washington-based group that examines ethical implications of corporate investment, points out, U.S. subsidiaries in South Africa provide important strategic inputs to the South African government--for instance, they supply almost half the market for computers; a third of the country's motor vehicles; and over two-fifths...
...ACSR has met since October to formulate a South African investment policy. Along the way, the ACSR has relied greatly on the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC)--a Washington-based service set up in 1972 by Harvard and other large institutions and first chaired by Farber...