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Global Shares Shares that trade on multiple exchanges with different currencies. For example, if a publicly-traded company issues shares in dollars for the New York Stock Exchange and pounds for the London Stock Exchange, it is issuing global shares. These are fairly uncommon, and certainly less common than International Depository Receipts, whereby a company issues its shares in one currency but allows banks effectively to trade them in another. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In order to preserve this structure, to insulate the companies from takeover concerns, to maintain home-country control and to encourage sensitivity to domestic labor and other issues, these companies often use nonvoting stock when entering a second national market through an issuance not involving ADR or global shares. And Winnick has held onto about 70 million Global shares, Christensen said. Malone also agreed to buy $500 million of the Sky Global shares in that sale, to increase his stake to about 6 percent. |
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