Word: share
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postwar dollar shortages. In many cases the changes were more psychological than real, for tariffs or market conditions will continue to exclude what quotas do not. Still, the U.S. was only hoping to boost exports 10%. As for Washington's appeal for other volunteers to shoulder a bigger share of foreign aid costs, the echoing silence was loud...
...months it will cancel restrictions on a wide range of dollar imports, including bourbon (though the Japanese prefer Scotch), TV sets, household appliances, autos and cosmetics. Biggest item will be liberalization of such vital U.S. supplies as soybeans, scrap iron, hides and tallow, which should capture an even bigger share of the Japanese market, boost total U.S. sales to Japan by 5% ($40 million...
Getting down to business, he pointed out that Rockefeller's father had given his children a bicycle to share, but that "one man (Nelson) wound up with all the wheels. It is this sort of luck and gimleteyed perspicacity that marks a man suited for the Presidency...
Call options are most popular with bulls, who think the market will rise. A call is a negotiable contract giving the purchaser the right to buy stock, usually in 100 share lots, any time during a specified period running from 21 days to a year or more. For example, last June Filer sold a six-month, ten-day call on American Motors for $625. This gave the purchaser the right to buy 100 shares of American Motors at 37⅛ at any time before the option expires on Dec. 7. With American Motors now selling around 80, there is already...
...Paris stock market Machines Bull stock has lately been tracing a spectacular trajectory of its own. From $118 a year and a half ago, the 657,600 shares of Machines Bull jumped to more than $260 per share in September. The company recently announced plans to raise more capital by issuing 328,800 new shares. Shareholders were given rights to buy new shares, and the price jumped to $366. Today Machines Bull is valued on a stock basis at $240 million, among the top French companies...