Foreign companies tend to distribute capital to shareholders on a more sparse and unpredictable basis.
Not exact matches
When business folks do engage on public policy, it
tends to directly involve their bottom line, like the recent feud between the big telecommunication
companies and Harper over
foreign ownership rules.
China has proved a particularly tough environment for
foreign Internet
companies, which
tend to encounter both cultural and regulatory headwinds.
The study contrasts with earlier research which concluded that
companies that repatriated
foreign earnings following the 2004 legislation
tended to be those with rather limited investment opportunities both at home and abroad, a paucity, it was argued, that explains their failure to fund domestic investment through debt financing before the tax holiday.
«People
tend to confuse what the government can do with what these individual
companies can do,» said Karen Kornbluh, a senior fellow for digital policy at the Council on
Foreign Relations and former ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development under the Obama administration.
The regulations
tend to hold measures conducive to direct
foreign investment and conducting business within a SEZ results in a
company receiving tax incentives and opportunities to pay lower tariffs.
I'm not saying you need to rush out to overweight your portfolio with
foreign companies but U.S. investors
tend to be extremely underexposed to international stocks.
As US courts
tend to grant legal privilege to correspondence and documents held with
foreign companies only when such documents enjoy legal privilege in the country where they are located, this may also lead to the loss of legal privilege of such documents in US proceedings and the US court will ask the
company to deliver such documents.
Many
foreign - born agents
tend to congregate with each other and, in many cases, work for small
companies that serve the local
foreign - born community.