shares
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s shares rose after regulators eased the limit on how much funds can invest in a single stock, allowing fund managers to pile in the world’s largest contract chip maker.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Investors can buy and sell shares on the open market without any limits, and those trades move the share prices up and down as they would any public equity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
The fund’s shares traded at 81% of their net asset value at the time, and have since rebounded to around 90%.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Musk’s also looking to maintain firm control of his space company with a dual-class of shares that would give him 70% to 80% of voting control.
From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026
In the early 1990s, the first subprime mortgage lenders—The Money Store, Greentree, Aames—sold shares to the public, so that they might grow faster.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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