For example, an investor might contribute $100 in cash to an enterprise.
Argentine economy stumbled in 1995 as financial pressures fueled by the Mexican peso crisis and political squabbling within the MENEM administration undermined investor confidence and triggered capital outflows.
The landlord class deserves no worse than the stockholder class or the investor in a savings bank.
Even if the business is able to pay good dividends on watered stock, the crime of overcapitalization is not lessened, though the harm done is now not to the investor but to the public.
In studying the Corporation’s annual reports, the analytical investor will find certain indications that appear discouraging at first glance.
The investor knows that the big company has great earning power and enormous assets behind every dollar of its securities.
Industrious and saving Carnegie was soon in the investor class and when an opportunity arose to invest in what, it seemed to him, was an attractive business he was able to seize it, purchasing a one-sixth interest in the Iron City Forge Co.
The organization of the corporation put the supreme power in the hands of the banker, who as the intermediary between investor and producer, held the purse strings.
The investor who has used up the cream of the home investment market turns his eyes abroad.
The investor in a corporation cannot lose a sum larger than that represented by his investment.
I'll bet it ain't onct in a dozen times aninvestor gets a square run for his white alley, at that.
Many legitimate incorporations appeared on the books of the Secretary of State, and along with these were scores of frauds intended only to gull the small investor and separate him from his money.
His recommendation of a security to an investor meant that he would fully support that security and there were instances in his career when even his vast resources were taxed in such support.
If he advised an investor it meant that he would not hesitate a moment in investing his own money in the same security.
It was doubtless open to any individual investor of new savings to purchase sound securities at 2-1/2 per cent.
In many instances the investor may be acting wisely in preferring a smaller chance of much higher profits, because a secure 2-1/2 per cent.
Investor: An investor differs from a speculator in the fact that he buys stocks or bonds with the expectation of holding them for some time for the income to be derived from them, without reference to their speculative possibilities.
Held long enough, doubtless, it will repay the investor; or if the investor is satisfied with three per cent.
This recovery, along with a renewed government effort in 2000 to advance lagging structural reforms, have raised business and investor confidence over Russia's prospects in its second decade of transition.
Taiwan has become a major investor in China, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Vietnam.
In 1998, international financial turmoil caused by Russia's problems and increasing investor anxiety over Brazil produced the highest domestic interest rates in more than three years, halving the growth rate of the economy.
Investor confidence will remain low and few new jobs will be created under these circumstances.
In addition to direct defense costs, the violence has led to a sharp decline in investor confidence.
Fighting along the Sierra Leonean and Liberian borders, as well as refugee movements, have caused major economic disruptions, aggravating a loss in investor confidence.
These achievements, along with a renewed government effort to advance structural reforms and fiscal restraint, have raised business and investor confidence in Russia's economic prospects.
Risk premiums on Peruvian bonds on secondary markets reached historically low levels in late 2004, reflecting investor optimism regarding the government's prudent fiscal policies and openness to trade and investment.
Domestic and foreign investor sentiment is tempered by political uncertainties ahead of elections, corruption, and widespread lack of trust in institutions.
In this situation, if a Federal valuation is to be undertaken, it is primarily important that it should be under such auspices and by such methods that the investor will not be alarmed as to its consequences.
Not only has the public in Texas been benefited, but also the investor in railroad securities from the outside of the State.
Never, since the beginnings of the American railway industry, has the American and foreign investor been so reluctant to supply necessary capital, or so doubtful of the future of railway enterprises.
The people of Texas now have just and uniform rates of transportation, and the investor knows what he is purchasing, and may be reasonably sure of a return on his investment.
On the other hand, this appeals to the investor because it has genuine proof in it: "No stockholder of ours has lost a dollar through fluctuation in the price of the stock, though we have been doing business for fifteen years.
A New York trust company gets the same effect by sending the prospective investor a specimen bond complete to the coupons which show exactly how much each is worth on definite dates through several succeeding years.
A conservative investor once told me there was no better or safer property than a cheap lodging-house on the Bowery.
It was curiosity and not a desire to educate myself for the day when I might become a Conservative Investor that led me to enter No.
The ultimate purchaser acquired a real bargain by happening along at the psychological moment when the investor was sick of his deal and ready to part with it at little or no profit.
But occasionally the regular investor finds the matter of resale neither as simple nor as rapid as he had expected.
It was a desirable property but the investor had been over greedy and had put his original asking price far too high.
With growing nervousness the investor applied a coat of paint to the house and hung neat painted shutters at the windows.
For some years we watched a charming little place that a real estate investor had acquired at such a partition sale.
In addition, the buyer can still make his own mortgage arrangements with some investor who has money to loan if he knows such a person.
The investor of this type is, in effect, engaging in a form of banking business.
Actually institutional buyers had already committed to vast amounts of it, leaving precious little for the small investor before driving the price up.
Max was looking for an investor to finance the marketing of his engine that would change the world.
Investor confidence was strong at yearend 2001, in part because of the strong recovery in the trade balance.
The economic situation worsened still further in 2001 with the widening of spreads on Argentine bonds, massive withdrawals from the banks, and a further decline in consumer and investor confidence.
The economy shrank about 4% because of decreased trade, intermittent border closures, increased deficit spending on security needs, and investor uncertainty.
No better illustration of the attitude of the shrewd New York investor to "Copper" can possibly be given than to detail my first interview with H.
The flutter of an eyelash, a hair-breadth of hesitation, a mumbled word and there may be born in the mind of the investor that instinctive distrust which is the beginning of panic.
These achievements have raised business and investor confidence in Russia's economic prospects, with foreign direct investment rising from $14.
Turkey's high current account deficit leaves the economy vulnerable to destabilizing shifts in investor confidence, however.
Political uncertainties associated with this year's power transition, corruption, and lack of trust in institutions continue to dampen domestic and foreign investor sentiment.
No Investor ever had to Pay Taxes, Costs of Foreclosure, Wait for Interest, or Take Land, and not a Dollar has been Lost.
For the present purpose, that the commission merchant was an investor is enough, except only for the consideration as to whether it were wise to invite his connection in the first place.
There is no working law, let us repeat, which actually protects theinvestor against this sort of thing, nor which always protects even the promoter, though he be honest.
Supposing this to be true, it is of value for the investor to learn something of the theory of mines, something enabling him to pass on the natural value of any mining stock which is offered to him.
But let not the credulous investor suppose that even such a law would guarantee him against loss.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "investor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: backer; capitalist; financier; friend
