Word: nasdaq
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...downs of particular stocks or indices. Even something as sober as how stock markets are organized is as susceptible to fads as a teenage consumer. Just a few years ago, several big West European countries felt the need to reproduce their own versions of the U.S.'s tech-heavy NASDAQ exchange. After a few lackluster years, some, like Germany's Neuer Markt, fell out of favor and the survivors are lightly traded. More recently, market mergers have been all the rage - witness the so-far fruitless attempts by pan-European Euronext and Deutsche Börse to take over...
...Chinese companies have felt the thrill of shopping abroad before?and have later come to regret it. The first celebrated takeover came in 2001, when cell-phone designer Holley Group bought a NASDAQ-listed Californian company called American Champion Entertainment. Only later did the Chinese learn that American Champion's assets amounted to little more than a children's TV show called Adventures with Kanga Roddy. Chinese firms today still aren't rich enough to buy top-flight companies, but they do have money to spend. Lenovo earned $135 million in its last fiscal year on revenues of $3 billion...
Street Creds: Chartered Financial Analyst; President of Investment Company of America; Chairman of The Growth Fund of America; on board of Huntington Memorial Hospital, Westridge School and KCET Public Television, Los Angeles; former member of board of directors of NASDAQ and National Association of Securities Dealers...
...estate - even personal belongings. About 300,000 French citizens and residents are subject to it, and it causes some talented taxpayers to flee. Take entrepreneur Denis Payre. In 1990, he co-founded a French software company called Business Objects. The company quickly took off, and was listed on the nasdaq in 1994. By 1997, Payre was looking to withdraw from the day-to-day business. "I had to travel around the world constantly, and I had married and wanted to get to know my kids," he says. That's when the troubles started. As long as he was actively managing...
...Growth Fund of America and Fundamental Investors, in addition to his post as president and director of the Capital Research and Management Company. He was also the governor of the National Association of Securities Dealers from 1996 to 2002, and was a member of the board of directors of NASDAQ from...