Sentences with phrase «investor pressure on companies»

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Recently, the stock has come under pressure amid investor conflict on whether Tesla's technological advancements are enough to offset myriad auto production setbacks, and concerns regarding CEO Elon Musk's ability to stay focused on the company.

Investors, meanwhile, grew impatient not seeing returns fl ow back into their port folios, prompting them to put pressure on companies large and small.

Twitter shares have been under severe pressure of late, down more than 40 percent in the last six months as uncertainty over the company's leadership structure and growth potential weighed on investors.

Buoyed by an unquenchable thirst for short - term stock gains, traders and activist investors are mounting pressure on a wide array of companies to cut research and capital expenditures in order to increase stock buybacks and thus boost stock prices.

Offering investors «rewards» on top of equity stakes can ease the pressure on companies to deliver returns, Collins added.

He said the risk applied equally to companies, especially those that have been in denial about climate change risk to their business, and investors, some of which had been pressuring companies to lift their game on carbon risk disclosure but still had a long way to go themselves.

Combined with pressures we observe on profit margins, my impression is that investors may be surprised at the number of companies that attempt to offset earnings disappointments in the coming weeks by pairing those reports with cost - cutting, in the form of layoff announcements.

Duperreault arguably owes his new job to pressure put on AIG by activist investor Carl Icahn, who has been agitating for new management to join the company and move to split it up and sell the parts to unlock value for shareholders.

The deal also follows increased pressure on fund management companies from Britain's Financial Conduct Authority to provide better value for money for investors.

Rather, the increase in spreads appears to reflect both tightness in the Commonwealth Government bond market (where supply remains limited and demand by foreign investors appears to have increased) and upward pressure on swap rates (one benchmark against which corporate bonds are priced) as companies have sought to lock in fixed - rate borrowings due to expected increases in interest rates.

My worry as an investor: With February's unemployment rate at 4.9 %, companies may need to raise wages to attract workers, which would put pressure on corporate profits.

As investors discover how much more they have to pay on the actively managed mutual funds that many plans use as their only investment options, companies will feel pressure to turn to lower - cost alternatives that better preserve their workers» retirement savings.

Investors such as Carl Icahn have long used proxy fights to put pressure on companies and their managements.

Global Witness senior campaigner Billy Kyte says that foreign investors should be pressured to do real due diligence on projects, rather than just accept a company's claim that local communities were «consulted.»

«Investors are increasing pressure on firms, as evidenced by a record 101 shareholder resolutions in 2010 calling on North American companies to manage climate change risks.

Certainly investors can pressure companies to report on their carbon footprint or on how climate change could negatively impact their bottom line, but such transparency doesn't solve the core problem of stopping carbon emissions or demanding that these companies stop looking for more sources of carbon - based fuels and instead invest in renewable energy.

In the United Kingdom and the United States, where similar (but not identical) doctrines of legal professional privilege exist, and in civil law jurisdictions that do not recognise the concept of privilege but rely heavily on the doctrine of professional secrecy, significant pressure points arise as a company seeks to keep material privileged and confidential while also satisfying the appetite of public bodies (regulators, prosecutors and legislators) and customer or investor groups for unguarded candour.

But if the mounting pressure on Facebook and the company's falling stock price are anything to go by, the company's efforts at explaining away the controversy have so far failed to calm regulators and investors.

In a country flush with optimistic venture - capital investors and a lot of other cash sources, money often goes to the company that makes the grandest prediction — putting intense pressure on that company to follow through.

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