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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

1999 : Provisions that prohibit a bank holding company from owning other financial companies were repealed on November 12, 1999, by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. 2001: Decimalization (further loss of economics to provide market support for small companies), by reducing minimum commissions from 12.5 cents or 6.25 cents or 6.25

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

In 2008, Teva acquired American company Barr Pharmaceuticals, a maker of generic birth control pills, for about $7.5 Teva, Israel’s largest company, has a market value of about $56 billion. Ratiopharm, a privately-owned subsidiary of German holding company VEM, was founded in 1973 and has annual sales of about $8.6

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