gain
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Despite a 150% year to date gain, Samsung shares dropped 16% last week amid foreign investor sales and leveraged local buying.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
Your capital gain would be $400, and the federal tax due on that would be as much as $80, while for California taxpayers, the state tax due would be as much as $53.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
That was significantly higher than the 3.4% gain in average hourly earnings registered in the May jobs report.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Radio Bar's loss was VfB Stuttgart's gain, as Tuchel threw himself into his new life as a youth coach.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
Ophie knocked her shin into a wooden crate full of Christmas ornaments and stumbled into a hatstand before she managed to gain her bearings.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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