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...changes would be more heavy-handed. Those phone-payment fees would be prohibited outright (unless a customer asks for expedited service, a genuine additional cost which the card company would be allowed to pass along). It could also be substantially harder to market or sell credit cards to young people (those under either...
...That raises a question for investors. If the government buys the bank's common stock outright, investors know how much their own stake is diluted. But since some of the preferreds may convert and others won't, investors are left with a less clear picture of a bank stock's worth...
...MEPs to reconsider the ban. The MEPs did amend the ban to exempt seal products coming from traditional Inuit hunts. But Inuit leaders warned it would still kill their market. "This exemption is nothing but a ruse," Nunavut Environment Minister Daniel Shewchuck said in a statement. "With an outright ban on commercial trade, the price of skins will collapse, and with it one of the few ways in which the Inuit people are able to bring cash into their communities...
...recent report analyst Mary Ann Bartels of Bank of America/Merrill Lynch told clients she thinks the current rally is being driven by outright buying, and not just by short sellers closing out their positions which involves a stock purchase. "The market rally can continue," she says...
...Iran, however, is not currently in the process of directly hijacking an election. The Saudi bribes are also a breach of Lebanese electoral laws, which forbid the outright purchasing of votes and place a cap on the spending of candidates in the two months prior to an election...