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Issue
A particular financial asset.

Issue
A set of securities that a company or government offers for sale. That is, when a company sells stocks or bonds to the public (or offers them for private placement) the collection of stocks or bonds is said to be an issue. If the company or government is selling a set for the first time, it is said to be making a new issue. Typically, issues of securities may be bought and sold on the open market.

issue
A particular grouping of an organization's securities. For example, General Motors has a number of different issues of preferred stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

issue
To sell securities in the primary market. For example, in late 1996, Florida Panthers Holdings, Inc., owner of the NHL hockey team, issued 2,700,000 Class A shares of common stock at a price of $10 per share.

Issue. When a corporation offers a stock or bond for sale, or a government offers a bond, the security is known as an issue, and the company or government is the issuer.



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According to the study "Mobilizing Capital by Isuing Securities (a Real Possibility or an Illusion)" by Janka Dimitrova, director of the brokerage house Idea Plus Broker of Radovis, as much as 65 percent of the stock holding companies are aware of the possibility of issuing securities, 39 percent know the benefits of stock issue and 48 percent are willing to make a new issue of securities.
Stock Issues Stock issues have non-contractual, non tax deductible dividend payments.
But this regulation scared off many employee pension funds from returning the pension assets due to fears that they would incur huge financial losses because they would have to add more stock issues to their pension funds to meet the requirement.
 
 
 
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