And their job is to make money for the people holding the shares.  \nIf this bothers you so bad then I suggest that you by some stock and enjoy the so called record profits
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the problem is that people don't understand the difference between profit and profit margins.  When the cost of Oil (a tradeable commodity) doubles, oil companies will pay twice as much for oil and their cut becomes bigger (twice as big in fact)
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I think this is disgusting behaviour from this bank and I would urge anyone that banks with these people to move their money immediately. Why the hell should anyone go into debt just in order to stay with a bank ?!\nOn top of this, surely it is obvious discrimination against those that do not have £1500 to deposit or keep within the bank !! It seems this bank thinks we are there to line the pockets of their share-holders by increasing personal debt, just when people are needing to tighten belts due to higher mortgage payments.\nShame on those greedy sods.\n\nThank you for you help, but all the same I will not be making this bank "look" as if they are keeping their customers happy.
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Usually, that's a bit too personal.  Just accept what you make , do a great job, and get a raise as you work more at the company.
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I don't begrudge entrepeneurs for their wealth, especially if they took personal risks to get their businesses started.  They are necessary in a free economy and if they play fair they deserve to be rewarded.\n\nI think executive pay at established companies is obscene, however.  These people take no risks and when they screw up they are richly rewarded on the way out, while the peons are lucky to get two weeks' severance pay when they're downsized.  They always rationalize it as a function of supply and demand, but the boards have allowed themselves to be hypnotized into creating too much demand.  It's a mass mania, a lot like the tech stock boom of the 1990's that created excessive demand for stocks.  People who take advantage of this and then treat their employees like dirt are despicable.\n\nIn general, though, I have a lot less problem with how people earn money than with how they spend it.  Conspicuous consumption is a cancer on US society.  It's bad for the earth on which we all depend, it corrodes relationships, and it destroys people's spiritual lives so they're more inclined to corruption or outright crime.  In a lot of so-called Christian circles this teaching is unfashionable and even denied, but it's abundantly clear that the Biblical prophets and Jesus warned that people who were rich and selfish did so at their peril.  \n\nAs for Bill Gates, unlike most modern successful entrepeneurs, he is  a model of philanthropy, so I don't personally begrudge him his wealth.  I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices but that's another issue.
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Depends on the information.\n\nMartha Stewart's stockbroker got in trouble by sharing information.
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Their is no point in holding on to them unless you are doing it for 100's of more years.  Unless their is something irregular about them they are just as much money as they have printed on them.
105955
If these companies weren't so greedy and always thinking about profits all the time...americans needs jobs, too.  The state in which I live in have offered some companies here very nice incentives for them to stay instead of moving operations to Mexico or somewhere where is are plenty of cheap labor.  There are too many greedy companies and corporations out there.  Seriously, what are they going to do with all that money?
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Why do you publish a question that you yourself give the answer to.  The greedy employers have to step up to the plate and start to pay a fair wage, a job doesn't stink if the wages are fair.  You must be able to live on the wages that you make, when a company like Exon gives its retiring CEO 400million dollars in benefits, it is ridiculous that they then pay their clerks in the convenience stores that they own the minimum wage.  Big Business SUCKS.
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Times are changing and so do prices. How can they expect you to keep giving great service if you can't make enough money to keep your buissness afloat. If anyone has a good idea of how to explain that with finece be my guest.
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I agree with this person.  A lot of the collectors on the street also work for private firms and take a cut of the money!  If you want to donate to charity you should do it through the website or post a cheque as you want it all to go to the charity, not a collector.
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The whole system...OPEC on down to Exxon... all-time record profits for any company ever are EXTREMELY SUSPICIOUS... regardless of the situation... and it usually points to violations of anti-trust laws... is there one... I don't know... but it's suspicious...
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I believe that Those business have high egos, and wishing eagerly to take much money out of your pocket, I am also a business owner, but I don't think that the people who comes to my business should have to pay anything extreme. It is not right for business owners to have to lie, those who lie in their business do not have JESUS in their business! That is great of you to not sue the people who sold you that product. I once bought a product like that and it costed me some good money. The bad thing about it is that they did not explain everything to me, nor give me some instruction on how to use it. But oh well, I am going to try what you did, Not Sue the theives.
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DONT buy penny stock for fucks sake\n\ninvest in mainstream shares with good invetsment analysis\n\nyou should ask yourself ....why are such companies valued so low?? its cos \n\n1  they are poor performers\n2 the invetsment community dont see any upturn ...if they did then they would pile in and the share price would increase ....supply and demand!\n\nif you have money to invest and you put it in penny shares then u might as well put allof it on a horse race!
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Really, this is a judgment call.\n\nIs there a public market for the warrants? If so, check the price you can get for a direct sale--it might be better than the profit from exercising and selling the security.\n\nIf the warrants are about to expire, then obviously this is the right time to cash out. If the warrants have a long time until they expire, and you think the company is good, you might want to hold on to them. If you owned the stock itself, would you sell it?
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the company's first responsibility is to the shareholders/owners\na company must make profit and be competitive to survive\nyes there are lots of people in the US that need jobs but most are not willing to work for as low of a wage as other people in the world are\nif you want to blame somebody for outsourcing blame union greed\nthis is a global economy, the US needs to adapt
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Unfortunately, all the accounting catches in the world don't prevent someone from having a duplicate set of data, which is the most common way to "cook the books".  If you could interface between their books and the actual stock price, and you had some serious computing power, you might be able to tell that something fishy was going on, but you'd have to have access to the data.
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I of course do not know the answer to that question, I can speculate. It might be that they like having a stock with a very high price. I remember when IBM always sold about $400 a share year after year. There is a certain mystique with having such a high stock price. It is a status symbol.