The stockholders are making money hand over fist.

Should Shareholders Be Kings?

But the shareholders of Arcelor have made their choice.

Consumers will gain and shareholders will lose.

But IMF policies affect lives and economies in ways no corporation could ever do.

Disgusted, many UES shareholders sold their shares.

In the IMF world, member countries are referred to as shareholders.

Shareholders were concerned about the company's swift expansion overseas.

Thirty years on, shareholders have broken definitively with this system.

(1971) Shareholders protesting against Mitsubishi arms production.

At the same time, there is a double agency problem, as the ultimate shareholders individual shareholders don t directly control boards and CEOs.

Shareholders organized themselves into pension funds, investment funds, and hedge funds.

The Fund s shareholders would have to agree to incur those costs.

Above all, every developed economy pursued policies designed to provide high wages, which would guarantee high consumption and thus rapid growth. Shareholders used to put up with relatively meager dividends compared to today.

Shareholders used to put up with relatively meager dividends compared to today.

It is good to have a business sector in which shareowners are not prey to self dealing CEOs.

For banks and their shareholders, it looks a case of heads they win, tails we lose.

Whether the firm or its shareholders and other stakeholders spent the money was beside the point.

The few that are noticed typically end with a slap on the wrist, with the company meaning its shareholders picking up a modest fine.

When companies are fined for malfeasance, their shareholders, not their CEOs and managers, pay the price.

But the minority shareholders are certain to recover their costs, since Gazprom assumes the entire risk.

In a nation like the US, where employees can be fired easily, shareholders have less to fear. But in a labor strong society, dominant shareholders those with the most to lose if expansion goes awry have reason to keep managers on a short leash.

Rating agencies and shareholders are nervous when they hear that a stricter regulatory environment is not necessarily a disadvantage.

These have little to do with Gazprom s main business, are loss making and are probably used to channel company money to managers.

Shareholders know of hundreds of agricultural enterprises, hotels, luxury villas, banks, investment companies and corporate jets owned by Gazprom.

In a nation like the US, where employees can be fired easily, shareholders have less to fear.

The managers chose overly risky operations, because they knew that the shareholders would not participate symmetrically in the risks.

They are under constant competitive pressures shareholders expect a return on their investment.

But its failure, and the failure of its European shareholders, to adhere to its own best practices may eventually prove to have been a fatal misstep.

Shareholders of British companies must approve, by majority vote on a shareholder resolution, any political spending that exceeds 5,000.

After more than a year of rumors, the stockholders of Russia s largest online social network, Vkontakte, have finally fired founder and CEO Pavel Durov.

Faced with a no fire rule, shareholders have reason to be very cautious if expansion is not profitable, they cannot reduce labor costs. France, for example, is notorious for forcing foreign firms like Britain's Marks and Spencer to keep redundant workers on the payroll.

Shareholders were often required to suffer losses or were even wiped out, but bondholders were generally saved by the government s infusion of cash.

Faced with a no fire rule, shareholders have reason to be very cautious if expansion is not profitable, they cannot reduce labor costs.

The shareholders of Bear Stearns, AIG, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac essentially had ownership positions and all their wealth confiscated for pennies.

This 300 billion is a tax that shareholders of growing companies think is worth paying (or perhaps cannot find a way to avoid paying) for energetic corporate executives.

Bank officers may have walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars, but everyone else in our society shareholders, bondholders, taxpayers, homeowners, workers suffered.

Shareholders also hear of Gazprom providing financial guarantees to parties which officially at least have nothing to do with its business.

To safeguard its resources that is, to be sure that its shareholders are paid back the Fund must demand difficult policy adjustments on the part of these borrowers.

To boost the value of their shares, these shareholders backed the drive to reduce the global volume of the payroll and the number of workers that companies employ.

When shareholders balked, Chubais sought to neutralize his opponents, unilaterally changing the agreement with the Bank of New York to control the votes of most holders of American Depository Rights (ADRs).

In any case, new SDR allocations require the support of 85 of votes within the IMF s board, which appears unachievable in the foreseeable future, as major shareholders are opposed.

Impunity is widespread indeed, most corporate crimes go un noticed.

When a country finally suffers through austerity and repays its IMF loans, no rich private shareholder gets fat as a result.

For example, shareholders could direct that the corporation may not spend funds for certain types of political purposes, or that it must follow certain principles in allocating whatever budget is authorized.