Sentence examples for kept stock from inspiring English sources

Disappointing corporate earnings reports have kept stock prices in check all year, and only seem to have grown worse in recent weeks.

Repeated and often heavy handed interventions by Beijing have kept stock valuations at what many consider excessively high given the slowing economy and falling corporate profits.

Those lingering fears kept stock rallies in check, especially as official figures from Greece showed the economy shrinking by 1.8 percent in the three months that ended in June, compared with the previous quarter.

Any shareholders who kept stock with a fixed dividend could eventually fight another battle over valuation, if Vodafone wanted to use a squeeze-out to gain 100 percent control.

The recommendation, from a group led by the Bank of Finland's governor, in some ways recalls the old Glass-Steagall Act in the United States, which for decades after the 1929 stock market crash kept stock trading and other investment banking activities separate from retail lending.

The Dow Jones industrial average's four-day winning streak fell by the wayside Wednesday as the latest bumps on the road to economic recovery and a mixed bag of earnings kept stock in the red.

That kept stocks from falling far Monday, although the major indexes reversed course several times.

Corporate results and economic news offered investors a mixed picture and kept stocks fluctuating throughout much of the day.

This volatility, coupled with the lack of discernible trends, has kept stocks on edge for months.

By late morning, profit taking and a refusal to fall below 10,000 kept stocks from completely sinking into an abyss.

Some of them keep stock at home.