Sentences with phrase «boosting stock prices»

However geo - political issues and demand can lead to higher oil prices in the coming months potentially boosting the stock prices of this sector and related sectors.

The keiretsu conglomerates» practice of cross-holding each other's shares played a significant role in boosting stock prices and caused Japanese corporate wealth to balloon along with stock prices.

If they succeeded in boosting the stock price, executives stood to profit personally from generous stock options.

And with recent news of consolidation under a new parent company called Alphabet, many believe this could result in more clarity and transparency on Google's wide - range of businesses, and boost the stock price even more.

Activist hedge fund Marcato Capital Management, which had put pressure on the company to pursue strategies to boost its stock price, said it would vote for the deal.

That means in order to boost stock prices (and hence their own compensation) CEOs merely need to boost expectations.

These practices may help boost stock prices, at least temporarily.

While Nordstrom wanted to perform well this holiday season, there was some concern that delivering too strongly could boost its stock price and edge the price out of financing range.

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.

Strong credit markets give companies borrowing options to boost their stock prices, while making bearish investors scramble to close out trades before losing any more money, both of which then push the stock market even higher and continue the self - reinforcing bullish cycle.

While the government may not do anything specific for investors, Russell does say that its commitment to lowering business tax rates and creating a more business - friendly climate helps companies grow earnings, which should then, theoretically, boost stock prices.

Publix, an employee - owned company, also boosted its stock price by 35 cents a share to $ 41.75.

Robert W. Baird's Benjamin Kallo's suggestion that Tesla offer more Model 3 updates to help boost its stock price was met with a blunt response.

My sense is that if the Fed had not started QE to boost stock prices, we would have seen a better correlation.

Icahn has a track record of targeting companies that he feels are undervalued in order to boost their stock prices.

-- Buybacks, which boost stock prices by making shares scarcer, have exploded in 2018 thanks to the huge windfall created by President Trump's new tax law.

He believes that Yahoo could boost its stock price by about $ 16 per share by coming up with a strategy that would minimize the company's taxes when it sells the rest of its holdings in Alibaba Group and another investment in Yahoo Japan.

The Shenzhen Exchange in China has started cracking down on companies using misleading blockchain affiliations to boost their stock prices.

The downside for Tesla is now that it has shown there is an aspirational market for EVs that can boost stock prices if not make money, the world's biggest and best automakers are lining up to compete with the tiny automaker, which sold just 31,655 cars globally last year and 13,785 units in the U.S., according to WardsAuto estimates.

Investors bid down yields as interest rates fall, which boosts stock prices.

Although there are many who believe a freefall is coming, much like a trampoline, a naturally occurring financial mechanism has provided a relentless bid to boost stock prices higher... a buyback bonanza!

The most obvious response would be that Management is trying to boost the stock price.

Plus, if Netflix can boost their stock price, maybe they'll put more effort into the fight scenes in next season of Iron Fist.

In 2015, the US federal indictment reports that email addresses stolen from JPMorgan Chase 83 million compromised account in 2014 were eventually used by the unauthorized party to boost stock prices in the pump - and - dump schemes.

Indeed, the 67 - year old investor should probably revisit his study materials — assuming he actually read them beforehand — on the latest trend for struggling companies rebranding to «blockchain companies» to boost stock price.

Email addresses retrieved in a 2014 attack that compromised data on some 83 million JPMorgan Chase customers was later used in pump - and - dump schemes to boost stock prices, according to U.S. federal indictments in the case in 2015.

AMD in particular noted in its most recent 10 - K Securities and Exchange Commission filing that its business, which boosted its stock price heavily last year, that a drop in cryptocurrency demand specifically could hurt its business.

For example, the Long Island Iced Tea Corporation randomly added «blockchain» to its name and boosted stock prices in Q4.

The company is being pressed by activist investor Land & Buildings Investment Management LLC to sell assets, reduce spending and put its properties into a REIT to boost the stock price, as other gambling companies have done.

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It echoes Druckenmiller's argument that cash is not being re-invested into machinery, labour and R&D but is instead being used to buy back company stock and artificially boost share prices.

Gold prices fell to the lowest in nearly six weeks on Monday as the US dollar strengthened and easing tensions on the Korean peninsula helped boost appetite for higher risk assets such as stocks.

Telecom firm TDC also got a boost, jumping 2.48 percent after Barclays raised its target price on the stock.

Still, the Fed chairman reiterated his argument that lower rates boost growth by helping increase prices of stocks, homes and other assets.

Though the firm, along with many others, expects Apple to use its mountain of repatriated overseas cash to boost share prices through the repurchase of stock, it says the result will fail to overrule the iPhone slowdown.

TORONTO — The Toronto stock market ended Tuesday on a high note as a surge in oil prices boosted energy stocks and rumours of U.S. wireless carrier Verizon entering the Canadian market appeared to lose steam.

Once that happens, Qualcomm will need to negotiate with a group of funds that have taken a position in the Dutch company's stock, demanding a boost to the $ 110 - a-share price agreed to by NXP's board.

Ford Motor said on Wednesday it plans to cut 1,400 salaried jobs in North America and Asia through voluntary early retirement and other financial incentives as the No. 2 U.S. automaker looks to boost its sagging stock price.

Alternatively, it is possible that managers whose compensation is tightly linked to stock performance become more aware of buyback's positive announcement effects in recent years and use buyback announcements to boost up stock prices for their own benefits.

Since then, though, NGL Energy has divested some of the same assets, which lowered its revenue more than 30 % in fiscal 2016, but boosted its sagging stock price.

The company's Wednesday earnings release, in which Cisco announced a $ 25 billion increase in its stock buyback program and a dividend boost of 14 %, helped lead to a 6.7 % jump in its stock price in after - hours trading.

Paying CEOs in stock and options sounds innocent enough, but the temptation for them to boost share prices is too tempting to pass up.

Not from China, Japan, or Germany, but from within, led by impatient investors eager to gain immediate boosts in stock prices.

By adding one preferred share for each common share could boost Apple's stock price by $ 150, he said.

The news also briefly gave a 5 percent boost to the company's otherwise free - falling stock price on Wednesday (it's down again 2 percent on Thursday).

Republican control of the legislative and executive branches of the federal government has continued to provide a boost to stock prices throughout 2017.

Now, they are suddenly getting calls from companies that seem to have access to capital through the stock market, even if most of them do not really have available capital; all they want is to add the word «cannabis» to their name in order to give their share prices a boost.

Sven Eenmaa, who covers the stock for Stifel, said that while savings on lighting projects from lower commodity prices will get passed on to consumers over time, Acuity Brands should see a near - term boost.

Surging mining stocks and a fall in the pound boosted Britain's FTSE 100 on Wednesday, with metals prices climbing on supply concerns and data showing an unexpected dip in inflation.

Morgan Stanley analysts are upgrading automaker Tesla's stock to overweight and significantly boosting their price target, citing improved hopes for the Model 3 launch, better prospects for electric vehicle production, less competition and a «supportive political environment.»

At current prices the stock boosts a dividend yield of 5.10 % and is expected to be able to grow that dividend by 8 % annually.