joint stock company
joint stock company see chartered companies .
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(book reviews)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 12/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...group of merchants separate from those who controlled the chartered companies which dominated English trade in the early century. Second...The East India Company, the Levant Company, and other chartered companies willingly paid the imposts levied by the early Stuarts...
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The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 4/1/2004; 251 words
; ...greatest strength, its advance guard which defeats everything before it. It was preceded by mediaeval corporate bodies and chartered companies. In 1862 the Companies Act made it easier to set them up and they soon transformed the economy as private businesses...
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The Fannie/ Freddie time bomb: what happens to these giants when interest rates rise? Paul Sarbanes: call your office!
Magazine article from: The International Economy; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Freddie to register their securities with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Among the privileges these government-chartered companies enjoy is a statutory exemption from the requirement that their securities be registered with the SEC. Although Fannie...
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Maritime India.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2005; ; 602 words
; ...the traditional framework of European expansion studies, the work's revisionist aim was to analyze the era of the great chartered companies from an 'all-Europe' standpoint and yet to escape 'Europe-centeredness' and see the story from an Asian standpoint as...
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Employment Equity Act opens doors for Native job-seekers.
Newspaper article from: Wind Speaker; 12/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...public sector federal government departments. More than 70 federal government departments as well as 340 Crown owned and chartered companies including Canada Post, CN Rail, Air Canada and chartered banks, will be audited over the next five years by the commission...
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Taking stock: With the economy perking up and the stock market starting to roll, what's the outlook for mortgage industry stocks? (Cover Report: Secondary Market).
Magazine article from: Mortgage Banking; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...being two of the most closely watched players in the universe of mortgage stocks. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are federally chartered companies charged with a mandate to expand homeownership in the United States. Taken together, their combined market capitalization...
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British Columbia in Jane Austen's Time.(AGM 2007: Vancouver)(Essay)
Magazine article from: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...driven not by settlement from Britain but by slave labor and direct rule. In some parts of the world, Britain permitted chartered companies that were given a trading monopoly, notably the East India Company in South Asia and the Hudson's Bay Company in British...
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The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2004; ; 629 words
; ...cautiously underwrites Steensgaard's thesis of an early-seventeenth-century trade revolution achieved by the monopolistic chartered companies against the backdrop of long-term trends, moyen duree cycles, and short-term events. Chapters 7, 8, and 9 ( O Estado da...
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joint-stock company
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
joint-stock com·pa·ny • n. Finance a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders.
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Joint Stock Company
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
JOINT STOCK COMPANY An association engaged in a business...represented by shares of stock. A joint stock company is financed with capital invested...selected managers called directors. A joint stock company is a form of partnership, possessing...
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joint‐stock companies
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
joint‐stock companies assumed...In 1800 the only company stocks trading on the Dublin Stock Exchange were the...addition to several joint‐stock banks, 47 other companies...joint‐stock company and established a...
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joint-stock bank
Book article from: A Dictionary of Business and Management
joint-stock bank A UK bank that is a public limited company rather than a private bank (which is a partnership). During the 19th century many private banks failed; the joint-stock banks became stronger, however, largely as a result of amalgamations and careful investment. In the 20th century, ...
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stock exchange
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
stock exchange. The formal origins of the Dublin Stock Exchange date from 1799 when the Irish parliament passed a bill to regulate stock brokers. The original membership stood...businessmen. The foundation of the stock exchange reflects the growth of Irish...held in Dublin. In 1844 there were 47 ...
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