Sentences with phrase «of voting interest»

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(A) An individual who is a citizen of the United States; (B) A partnership each of whose partners is an individual who is a citizen of the United States; or (C) A corporation or association organized under the laws of the United States or a State, the District of Columbia, or a territory or possession of the United States, of which the president and at least two - thirds of the board of directors and other managing officers are citizens of the United States, which is under the actual control of citizens of the United States, and in which at least 75 percent of the voting interest is owned or controlled by persons that are citizens of the United States.

The deal, which requires further approvals, would give the cable TV distributor 80 per cent of the voting interest and at least 20 per cent of the equity interest in a Canwest Global Communications Corp..

Dell currently owns 82 % of VMware stock, and 97 % of its voting interest, thanks to the 2015 Dell / EMC merger.

Not exact matches

At the March 20 - 21 meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee voted to raise its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to a range of 1.50 % to 1.75 %, as had been widely expected.

The Federal Reserve Board voted Wednesday to raise interest rates, ending close to a decade of virtually free money — and that could mean financing challenges for startups and small businesses.

University of Chicago grad student David Andrew Finer realized that the data could shed light on how Wall Street interacts with the Federal Reserve, especially around the critical times when the central bank is voting whether to raise or lower interest rates.

«It's a really interesting way to see what your potential customers are interested in during the development stage instead of when they vote with their wallet,» he says.

The nomination of Garrett, who voted against reauthorizations of the bank in both 2012 and 2015, incensed many business interests, even those who agreed with other elements of the Trump agenda.

The Bank of England Thursday raised U.K. interest rates for the first time since 2007, in an effort to support the pound and head off inflationary pressures caused by a slump since the U.K. voted to leave the EU 16 months ago.

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

But while the markets may have seen violent swings in the immediate aftermath of the vote to leave, the longer - term political ramifications of a Brexit are interesting to consider, too.

The closed - session council vote was unanimous with one councilman abstaining due to a conflict of interest, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reported.

SoftBank's interest is an incredible vote of confidence in Uber's business and long - term potential, and we look forward to finalizing the investment in the coming weeks.»

In charting his trade agenda, Pres. Trump must also balance the interests of two industries with heavy presence in states that voted for him: Manufacturing and agriculture.

Also of interest, the groups that were the most negative on the new economic policies were those with college degrees and people living in the Northeast, both demographics that exit polls show voted more for Hillary Clinton.

The Bank of England cut interest rates on Thursday for the first time since 2009, revived its bond - buying program and said it would take «whatever action is necessary» to achieve stability in the wake of Britain's vote to leave the European Union.

He should have taken a lesson from London, Ont., mayor, Joe Fontana, who did declare a conflict of interest when his council voted to ask him to leave office in light of fraud charges stemming from his time as a federal cabinet minister.

It is more important than ever that investment managers vote their shares to ensure companies act in the interest of shareholders, Bogle told me.

Bogle sees some positive changes in investment managers voting on behalf of their clients» interests, but it is «moving with glacial speed,» he told me, because fund managers «don't like controversy.»

Senators with young children like Duckworth are similarly not allowed to hand over their children to a staffer during a vote due to conflict of interest rules.

Though the firm is maintaining a strict policy of neutrality on the vote, it said it has a responsibility to its customers to take action to protect their interests.

When the Federal Reserve's policy - making Open Market Committee meets next month to decide whether to raise interest rates, every one of the 10 voting members will be white.

Current proxy rules work against shareowners who are trying to vote in alternative and independent board members, but it is shortsighted of firms to ignore owners» interests.

Canadians did not vote to see government power used to carry out a mandate written by the oil patch in the interests of a single province.

Nevertheless, the bank received enough interest from hedge funds, endowments, and other institutional investors that its board of directors voted to approve the move that will see it become the first major US bank to use its own funds to trade cryptocurrencies or cryptocurrency derivatives.

It said the tactic was meant to confuse shareholders into voting for a package of reforms, even if it included the stock change that was not in their interests.

The Board determined to adopt a «net long» definition of ownership because it believes that only stockholders with full and continuing economic interest and voting rights in our common stock should be entitled to request that the Company call a special meeting.

In Tallahassee, the National Rifle Association, one of the most influential special interest groups in the state, asked House lawmakers to vote against the legislation.

«There should not be unequal voting rights as they could allow management or minority share owners to override the wishes or best interests of majority shareholders for personal benefit and compromise accountability, leading to potential entrenchment issues,» Mary Leung, head of advocacy for Asia at CFA Institute, an association of investment professionals, said in a statement.

Both the House and the currently proposed Senate bills (note that the Senate bill has not been voted on at the time of this interview) also have provisions that limit the deductibility of interest for corporations.

a person in respect of which all of the owners of interests, direct, indirect or beneficial, except the voting securities required by law to be owned by directors, are persons that are accredited investors,

These holders of our Class B common stock may have interests that differ from yours and may vote in a way with which you disagree and which may be adverse to your interests.

Following the British vote to exit the European Union, global economic concerns, coupled with weakness in the Japanese economy, drove interest rates in Britain, Europe and Japan to fresh lows, prompting a burst of yield - seeking speculation that has driven the S&P 500 Index a few percent above its May 2015 peak.

Elsewhere in governance, on Friday the Wall Street Journal endorsed Jamie Dimon's criticism of shareholders who lazily follow the voting recommendations of Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis, and Nicholas Donatiello and Harvey Pitt argued that the Securities and Exchange Commission should regulate proxy voting to reduce the influence, and conflicts of interest, of ISS and Glass Lewis.

The minutes, published almost two weeks after the decision, have as a result lost some of their previous power to drive sentiment though the voting pattern will always be of interest.

There are concerns about potential conflict of interest in vote recommendations, lack of transparency, undo influence and inaccurate assessments with inadequate review.

Each investment advisor is committed to fulfilling their fiduciary duty to vote proxies in the best interests of their shareholders.

The people who voted for the bill decided to sell out the public and vote against the public interest in their own interest and that of their backers.

It's not surprising that general partners and their respective limited partners want to keep this activity quiet — an LP interest transfer resulting from a very practical reason could unnecessarily be misconstrued as a vote of no confidence by the LP or a signal of an LP's poor financial health.

Second, even with respect to those disparate voting rights plans that do raise conflict of interest concerns, it must be recognized that there is only a potential conflict of interest.

Another good example of a dual class transaction that fails to raise conflict of interest concerns is subsequent issuance of lesser - voting rights shares.

[20] In essence, this was an early version of the conflict of interest argument made below: promoters were using nonvoting common stock as a way of maintaining voting control for themselves.

One of the governance principles is that «Shareholders should be entitled to voting rights in proportion to their economic interest...» In other words, the Group does not favour multi-voting share structures that characterize over 80 companies on the TSX and that have been popular in Canadian IPOs over the last few years (see comments on Aritzia's IPO here).

The Brexit vote impact is so important to the U.S. that it's part of the reason the Federal Reserve, our country's central bank, decided not to raise interest rates recently.

The Ways and Means Committee voted on a number of tax bills last week, including legislation that would restore and expand bonus depreciation at a cost of $ 360 billion over the next decade (including interest).

The SSE Holdings LLC Agreement may be amended with the consent of the holders of a majority in voting power of the outstanding LLC Interests; provided that if the managing member holds greater than 33 % of the LLC Interests, then it may be amended with the consent of the managing member together with holders of at least 50 % of the outstanding LLC Interests, excluding LLC Interests held by the managing member.

For most corporations, the basic governance structure is this: shareholders vote for, and hence empower, a board of directors, who then have a fiduciary responsibility to look out for shareholders» interests.

«Crowdfunding is building on this phenomenon, where the masses give their vote on whether or not there is interest in a project, as opposed to a couple of investors being the ultimate judges.»