floating stock
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Daimler-Benz has 93% of its stock in the hands of institutions and other companies; in the past month, buyers of small amounts of floating stock propelled the price from $243 to $363 within ten days.
From Time Magazine Archive
Major corporations as well as newcomers will increasingly have to raise fresh capital by floating stock issues�and the issues would not sell well in a bear market.
From Time Magazine Archive
The stock market plunge has also prompted some cutting back in the spending plans of small companies that had hoped to raise capital by floating stock issues.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet even before this fact had been clearly recognized, the railway magnates of the West had bought up all the floating stock without exception.
From Banzai! by Parabellum by Grautoff, Ferdinand Heinrich
I'll buy all the floating stock I can pick up.
From The Hills of Refuge A Novel by Harben, Will N. (Will Nathaniel)
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