Word: stockely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York, London and Hong Kong and their status as global financial and trade hubs: Rather than celebrating Ny-lon-kong, you should have hailed New-syd-don [Jan. 28]. Sydney is a larger city than Hong Kong, and more companies have their Asia-Pacific regional headquarters there. The Australian Stock Exchange, based in Sydney, is among the world's 10 biggest and No. 3 in the Asia-Pacific. Sydney is one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities: about 3 in 10 residents come from overseas, representing 170 countries. In asserting that Hong Kong was the 14th richest city...
Located behind a series of concrete and barbed wire barricades in a Christian enclave of Baghdad, the Iraq Stock Exchange, or ISX, can be distiguished from its counterparts in New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo and London by two things: the trading is done manually, and two cordial plainclothes guards at the white plastic table in the courtyard are happy to check your guns...
...series of white dry-erase boards that list each company's share buy and sell price. A man in the back takes out a pair of opera classes to read the writing on the wall. Once a sale is final, buyers wait 15 to 20 days for the stock certificate to be issued...
...expects some growing pains and adjustments when the automated system comes online. "It is an Iraqi tradition to see everything - we will not have a physical [stock] certificate anymore," says Taha, who expects that market capitalization of the index will increase 25% to 50% in the next year...
...Bears did not find as much luck playing shorthanded. Four minutes into the final period, Vaughn lifted a shot over a diving Stock to add an insurance goal for the Crimson. Vaillancourt and senior tri-captain Caitlin Cahow assisted on the play...