Word: investors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...investor puts up $25,000 in cash, his share of the loan will be about $75,000, and the total cost of the movie to him will be figured for tax purposes at $100,000. He gets three tax breaks: 1) he can deduct interest on his $75,000 share of the loan; 2) in the first year, he can take two-thirds of the 10% investment tax credit on his $100,000 share of the movie's cost; 3) most important, he can take a depreciation write-off on the whole...
...leading international investor with returns on these investments representing for some major U.S. enterprises the critical source of their margins of profits ... overtone of old fashioned isolationism, nonetheless, do make themselves heard, most notably within American labor concerned with the export of American jobs abroad...
...determined to drive out the foreign investor. LDC rhetoric, for example, has made the multinational a pariah, branding it as the handmaiden of neocolonialist exploitation. Many corporation executives believe that laws could be enacted making the multinational responsive to local government without necessarily creating an environment hostile to foreign capital...
Last week, for example, an investor putting up $250 could have bought on the C.B.O.E. an option to purchase 100 shares of Polaroid at $40 a share any time before Jan. 31. Polaroid was then selling at $37.50. If by the end of January it were to rise to, say, $45, the option buyer could buy the stock itself at $40, sell immediately at $45, and make $500 on 100 shares; subtracting the $250 he had paid for the option would still leave a profit of $250, less commissions, in less than three months. Alternatively, if he did not want...
...course, if the market price of Polaroid stock remained under $40, the option eventually would become worthless -but even if he let the option expire unused, the investor would lose only his initial $250. More likely, he would resell the option before its expiration date at a price lower than $250, to someone who was still betting on a rise in Polaroid. The vast majority of options are never exercised, and the average option buyer holds onto his contract only for about a month. The stock covered by options is held mostly by institutions or wealthy individual investors who sell...