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an offering of common stock to existing shareholders who hold subscription rights or pre-emptive rights that entitle them to buy newly issued shares at a discount from the price at which they will be offered to the public later
the investment banker who handles a rights offering usually agrees to buy any shares not bought by shareholders
How To Use rights issue In A Sentence
- The 2nd Klan 1910+ was allowed to thrive due to concerns about posse-comitatus. federal power and states rights issues. Think Progress » Steele on serving as RNC chair: God has ‘placed me here for a reason.’
- One of the main areas of concern for shareholders is the fees that a consortium of investment banks will charge for underwriting the rights issue. Times, Sunday Times
- The rights issue is fully underwritten. Times, Sunday Times
- Like the bloodhounds they are, they must have sniffed the overpowering scent of money mixed with a human rights issue, and went in for the kill.
- But the increased popularity of ethical careers is also a result of environmental and human rights issues becoming more mainstream. Times, Sunday Times
- This will include the terms of any discounted rights issue. Times, Sunday Times
- Sexual "diversity" may be the civil rights issue of the future but most normal people wish they would get a life which revolves around something more than their own peccadilloes. Obama Heckled over Don't Ask Don't Tell
- He championed human rights issues, was appointed ambassador-at-large by President Jimmy Carter, and worked tirelessly as an advocate before his death in 1990.
- The Indonesian coalminer that he co-founded said yesterday that he was thinking about underwriting a rights issue. Times, Sunday Times
- APAC and Shougang Concord have agreed to underwrite a one-for-five renounceable rights issue at 60 Australian cents a share to raise A$96. 5 million. Mount Gibson Scrambles as Iron-Ore Buyers Renege
