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  • "Joint-stock banks will be the major beneficiaries of the latest spike in new-loans growth as increased lending will contribute to their net interest margin recovery over the next two quarters," said Nan Sheng at UOB KayHian.

    Japan Shippers Fall, Nikkei Ends Flat 2009

  • Still the great impetus to manufacturing, which completely revolutionized the character of the state, followed the Joint-stock

    The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene

  • Joint-stock establishments are recommended by it for the sale of clothes, shoes, and linen.

    Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson

  • * In his work on "Joint-stock Companion", vol. II, pp. 266 ff.,

    Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Mary Johnston 1903

  • Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable.

    What Social Classes Owe to Each Other William Graham Sumner 1875

  • Joint-stock companies were beginning to multiply in the commercial world at this period; and wherever there are many schemes for the investment of public capital there is room for such a man as Horatio Paget -- a man who, with the aid of a hired brougham, can inspire confidence in the breast of the least daring speculator.

    Birds of Prey 1875

  • Joint-stock companies have no souls; their managers, in general, no consciences.

    Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 01 (historical) 1874

  • Joint-stock operations with France are said to result in the disadvantage and discredit of this country.

    The Joint Expedition to Mexico 1861

  • Even the Co-operative Cotton-mills, or Co-operative Banks, which are nothing more than Joint-stock Companies, Limited, [1] may become bankrupt.

    Thrift Samuel Smiles 1858

  • If you were, instead, to buy a good mortgage at five per cent, you would pay four per cent to the Joint-stock Company, and one per cent. would be your own; in other words, a yearly addition of four hundred and fifty dollars.

    Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Gustav Freytag 1855

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