BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Auction Market Preferred Stock
- stock in a company owned in the United Kingdom that pays dividends which track a money-market index.
- Abbr. AMPS
Additional Resources
- Fitch Affs Flaherty & Crumrine/Claymore Total Return Fund's Pfd Shares
- NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings affirms the ratings on the following Flaherty & Crumrine/Claymore Total Return Fund preferred shares at 'AAA': Flaherty & Crumrine/Claymore Total Return Fund Inc. -- Auction market preferred stock 2,570 shares series T7; -- Auction market preferred stock 2,570 shares series W28. ...
- Research articles 2004-11-09
- Fitch Rates Banc of America Dutch Auction Pfd Corp's Pfd Stock 'A+'
- CHICAGO -- Fitch Ratings has assigned a long-term rating of 'A+' to the auction rate preferred stock issued by Banc of America Dutch Auction Preferred Corporation BADAPC, an indirect majority-owned subsidiary of Bank of America, N.A., which is the principal operating subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation BAC. BADAPC will...
- Research articles 2005-12-09
- Brazil's bankrupt Varig fails to sell at auction
- RIO DE JANEIRO AFP — Brazil's 79-year-old flagship carrier Varig sailed into limbo at auction after the bankrupt airline attracted a single bid, at half the minimum price. The price of Varig's preferred stock plunged 58 percent on the Sao Paulo stock market after the auction to rescue it...
- Research articles 2006-06-08
- Bidville, Inc. Completes $2.5 Million Financing Substantially Above Current Market Price to Compete in Marketplace Dominated by eBay
- CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Bidville, Inc. (OTCBB:BVLE), a rapidly growing online auction company and an alternative to eBay (Nasdaq:EBAY), announced today that it has completed a $2.5 Million financing at a price approximately 50% above the market price of its common stock on the closing date. The financing will be obtained...
- Research articles 2005-05-17
- Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. Provides Information on Preferred Share Auctions
- CHICAGO -- Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. today commented on the disruptions in the short-term fixed income market that have resulted in recent failures in the periodic auction or remarketing of certain series of preferred stock issued by many closed-end funds, including the three closed-end funds advised by Duff...
- Research articles 2008-02-19
- ADC Telecommunications, Inc. F4Q07 (Qtr End 10/31/07) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. And your first question is from Simon Leopold of Morgan Keegan. Simon Leopold - Morgan Keegan & Co. Thanks, I wanted to get in a couple of clarifications first, one is just trying to come up with the pro forma earnings number...
- Earnings calls 2007-12-12
- MBIA Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionGregory Diamond Now we will begin the Q&A session which will last up to one hour. We are going to start with questions that have been submitted to us in writing. We have few of those. And we will address those first and then we will open up...
- Earnings calls 2008-11-05
- Treasury Earns 12% Return on First Few TARP Banks: Is That Enough?
- Banks that took Treasury TARP funding are eager to cut their ties to the program, in order to demonstrate their self-sufficiency, and regain full control of their institutions including how much they can pay the top brass. Eleven smallish banks have completely wound up their TARP participation, and the Congressional...
- Blog posts 2009-07-12
- Earnings Preview: American Eagle Outfitters
- American Eagle Outfitters AEO is expected to report Q3 earnings before market open Tuesday, November 25, with a conference call scheduled for 9:00 am ET. Guidance Analysts are looking for a profit of 30c on revenue of $753.55M. The consensus range is 30c - 32c for EPS, and revenue of...
- External links 2008-11-24
- Shaw Communications, Inc. F4Q07 (Qtr End 8/31/07) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. [Operator Instructions]. And our first question will now come from Vince Valentini. Please go ahead. Vince Valentini - TD Securities Inc. Hey, thanks. Good quarter guys and good dividend increase. Just on the subscriber side, the numbers on the telephony are a...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-28
- 7 Drug Companies Explain How They Dodged (or Didn't) the Credit Crisis
- Drug companies have been the eye of the storm in the recent liquidity crash. High profitability, high cashflow (and making products that people literally can't live without) have left them in a comfortable economic position compared to other consumer-oriented companies. Here’s a selection from recent earnings calls...
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Google Under Fire: Four Ways Search Giant is Vulnerable
- Google stock is soaring back toward $500 -- double from a year ago -- even though it faces new resistance and competition in online media, advertising and tech. While it remains the dominant search engine with nearly 60 percent global market share, Google is confronted by growing risks elsewhere. The...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06




