Why a Stock Price Matters to a Company
A stock price affects a company’s market value and acquisition power. High prices ease stock-based acquisitions and fundraising, while low prices hinder flexibility and signal value changes. Online brokers and sites like Yahoo Finance let investors track portfolios and watch lists by entering holdings and purchase details.
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Name That Company’s Oldest U S Brewery in Pottsville
A German immigrant founded the Pottsville brewery in 1829, now America's oldest and largest domestic beer producer after foreign ownership shifts. It stayed open during Prohibition by near beer and an ice cream plant. The name derives from youth in German, its Rathskeller brewery bar remains, and a fifth generation owner leads today.
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Pottsville
Pennsylvania
America
Tax advantaged accounts cut taxes on bonds and stocks
Invest in tax deferred or tax free accounts for bonds and frequent traders to lower taxes. Traditional accounts delay tax until withdrawal, Roth accounts offer tax free withdrawal, and long term holdings qualify for lower capital gains. Consider tax efficient funds and avoid frequent trading. Roy Richmond, Virginia shares his later AMF Bowling note about IPOs and industry decline.
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AMF Bowling
Roy
Richmond
Virginia
Motley Fool Goes Mobile Free on Android and iPhone
Motley Fool offers free mobile access to investing advice and market information on Android and iPhone apps. The move aims to reach more users with on the go insights and tools for investing decisions.
Google a long term buy on core search and Android dominance
The Motley Fool views Google as a lasting investment due to 58 percent of global search share and Android leading 85 percent of mobile. It notes free services funnel users to ads while Google expands into AI, robotics, biotech, and smart home ventures with about 13 percent of revenue spent on R and D. The bull case cites 875 percent revenue rise from 2005 to 2013 and continued upside if core strengths translate to new markets.
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Apple
MetLife History Briefs Its Global Insurance Reach
The text traces MetLife from its 1863 National Union Life and Limb roots serving Civil War sailors to a modern global insurer with about 65 000 employees and 100 million customers in over 50 nations. It notes public health campaigns and free nursing, involvement in Rockefeller Center and the Empire State Building, and its current offerings in life insurance annuities employee benefits and asset management. The brand icon is a doghouse.
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Rockefeller Center
Empire State Building
MetLife
Fool
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Exiles leave Harlan County seek work in Bluegrass region
The Harlan County Community Action Agency has given relocation grants totaling up to 37500 to 75 workers who moved to jobs around Toyota's Georgetown plant and other Kentucky sites. Many locals faced layoffs from coal companies, with workers like Donnie Reeves finding better pay in heavy equipment maintenance while others stay behind, bittersweet over leaving mountains as Promise Zones and SOAR initiatives aim to spur regional revival.
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Harlan County
Reeves
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Georgetown
Keith Johnson
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Harlan
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Japan coal funding dominates early climate finance efforts
An AP review of 300 top climate finance projects from 2009 to 2010 shows Japan was the only country to fund direct support for new coal plants. The second largest item was a $729 million JBIC loan for an energy efficient thermal plant in East Java used to build an 815 MW coal unit at Paiton.
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East
Java
Bank For International Cooperation
JBIC
Paiton
Mortgage rates and Japanese firms in energy projects
The note discusses mortgage rate variability and lender contact for details and down payments. It then describes a Japanese linked energy finance landscape with Marubeni Mitsui and Tokyo Electric involvement, including the Cirebon and Paiton coal projects, a $214 million JBIC loan, and climate finance tied to coal plants in Asia. Environmental concerns are raised, with scientists urging carbon capture as a gap to meet UN goals, while local fishermen report dwindling catches near the Cirebon plant.
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Indonesia
Vietnam
U.N
Paiton
Cirebon
Foreign Ministry
Marubeni
Mitsui
Tokyo Electric
Japan
Kanci Kulon
West Java
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