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As befits the sometimes high-risk nature of stock picking, the term "blue chip" derives from the card game poker.The simplest sets of poker chips include white, red, and blue chips, with American tradition dictating that the blues are highest in value.
The cash dividend forecast for 2015 is ¥105 per share. [2] As of June, 2015, the composition of shareholders by category is 37.4% foreign companies, 22.5% individuals and others, 21.9% financial institutions, 15.3% domestic (Japanese) companies, 2.1% treasury stock and 0.9% financial instruments firms.
This caused the NASDAQ and S&P 500 to fall to more than 20% below their all time highs, and so the declines activated a trading curb at the New York Stock Exchange for the second time that week. [ 254 ] [ 255 ] Oil prices dropped by 8%, [ 256 ] while the yields on 10-year and 30-year U.S. Treasury securities increased to 0.86% and 1.45% (and ...
The forecast of tourist arrivals for the year 2019 is maintained at 1,450,000, representing an increase of 3.6% over the figure of 1,399,408 in 2018. [ 210 ] Mauritius currently has two UNESCO World Heritage Sites , namely, Aapravasi Ghat and Le Morne Cultural Landscape .
First, there can be no surprises; that is, the conditions for receipt must be stated clearly and the beneficiary must be aware of those conditions and their consequences. Second, the conditions imposed must be related to the spending in question. Last, the incentive must not be so significant as to turn cooperation into coercion.
A dividend of 10% was paid that October, an additional dividend of 20% at the beginning of 1904, and another 68% in June 1904. Two dividends of 100% each in June and July 1905 brought the total investor profits to nearly 300% in just over two years; 1905 total profits were almost $300,000. [4]
Business history is a historiographical field which examines the history of firms, business methods, government regulation and the effects of business on society. It also includes biographies of individual firms, executives, and entrepreneurs.
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. In the western Pacific Ocean , it consists of 7,641 islands , with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon , Visayas , and ...