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  Small caps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In typography, small caps (short for small capitals) are uppercase (capital) characters that are printed in a smaller size than normal uppercase characters of the same font.
Small caps are often used for text that is all uppercase; this makes the run of capital letters seem less "jarring" to the reader.
French and some British publications use small caps to indicate the surname by which someone with a long formal name is to be designated in the rest of a written work.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Small_capitals   (425 words)

  
 Small caps: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The aspect ratio of a two-dimensional shape is the ratio of its longest dimension to its shortest dimension....
The text of a formal monumental inscription or the legend on a coin are often rendered in small caps: "Sir Christopher Wren[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject]'s tomb in the St Paul's that he designed reads simply si monumentum requiris circumspice."
In typography, all caps (short for all capitals; often written as all caps) refers to text or a font in which all letters are capitalized....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sm/small_caps.htm   (939 words)

  
 Caps lock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is akin to the caps lock, but also affects the number and punctuation keys, causing them to type the characters they would if the shift key were held down.
Use of the caps lock is also associated with newbies who do not consider the appearance of their writing.
Thus, when a user calls technical support and reports inability to log into a password-protected resource, a typical response is, "Is your caps lock on?" Many screens requiring log on now warn the user if their caps lock key is on to reduce the likelihood of this mistake.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caps_lock   (524 words)

  
 Penny stock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The terms penny stocks, microcap stocks, small caps, and nano caps are often interchangeable.
The market capitalization (market cap) of a company is calculated by multiplying its stock price by the amount of shares outstanding, this number gives you the total dollar value of all the shares in the company at that moment in time.
This volatility due to liquidity is both a positive and a negative, a small cap stock like Taser (TASR:NASDAQ) rallied from $0.30 to over $30 due to liquidity factors, high demand and low supply of stock sent the price higher.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Penny_stock   (412 words)

  
 Small Caps - Fonts.com
Small caps are available for a select number of typefaces and allow you to bring distinction and sophistication to your work.
Small caps for display designs vary in size and are often taller than the height of the lowercase letterforms.
True drawn small caps are superior to computer generated small caps or reduced caps as they are drawn to match the weight, color and proportion of the caps.
www.fonts.com /AboutFonts/Articles/fyti/SmallCaps.htm   (467 words)

  
 Introduction to Small Caps
The media usually focuses on the negative side of small caps, saying they are risky, frequently fraudulent and lacking in quality that investors should demand in a company.
Because small caps are just that, companies with small total values, they have the ability to grow in ways that are simply impossible for large companies.
Small caps are also more susceptible to volatility, simply due to their size - it takes less volume to move prices.
www.investopedia.com /articles/01/080101.asp   (1178 words)

  
 AIG VALIC: Education & Planning > Investment Types > Small- & Mid-Cap Funds
The terms "small," "medium" and "large" in the financial services realm are used to distinguish the various market capitalizations of any given security, stock or mutual fund.
Interestingly, large caps outdistanced the other two categories for nine of the 17 years and had higher overall performance for the entire period, with mid caps performing at a close second.
Small- and mid-sized companies may opt to pay little or no dividend income, instead channeling most of their earnings back into the company for growth.
www.valic.com /valic2003/aigvalic.nsf/contents/edu_type-smallmid   (1265 words)

  
 CrossingWallStreet.com: The Future for Small-Caps
The current cycle owes its longevity in part to the fact that small caps have not outperformed as dramatically as in some past cycles.
Through March 31, small caps gained a yearly average of 10.6% in the current cycle vs. a 1.3% loss for large caps, according to Merrill Lynch Small-Cap Research.
Market leadership is shifting now as small caps lose their edge in relative earnings growth.
www.crossingwallstreet.com /archives/2005/12/the_future_for_1.html   (312 words)

  
 FPA Journal - Investment Research: As the Recovery Ages, Do Small Caps Retain an Edge?
A casual examination reveals a slim advantage for small caps relative to large in that seven of the months have a positive premium compared with five having a negative premium.
In this case, we have wealth indexes created for both large caps and small caps where the index is set to $1 at the end of month t + 37.
The evidence is strong that small caps have led the way in the past, as one would expect, given their high beta nature.
www.fpanet.org /journal/articles/2004_Issues/jfp1204-art2.cfm   (970 words)

  
 creativepro.com - dot-font: Back to Typographic Basics
Small caps are wonderful things, very useful and sometimes elegant; fake small caps are a distraction and an abomination.
If the design calls for caps-and-small-caps -- that is, small caps for most of the word but a full cap for the first letter -- then it's even worse, since the full-size caps draw attention to themselves because they look so much heavier than the smaller caps next to them.
If you're going to use them, then use real small caps: properly designed letters with the form of caps but usually a little wider, only as tall as the x-height or a little taller, and with stroke weights that match the weight of the lowercase and the full caps of the same typeface.
www.creativepro.com /story/feature/15417.html   (1204 words)

  
 Safe Haven | Small Caps Are a "Sell"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
As we outlined in last weekend's commentary, small caps, in general, have outperformed large caps by 135% from 1999 to 2004 (2005 figures will be released in March per Ibbotson Associates).
Given the fact that small caps have out-performed large caps for a total period of six consecutive years from 1999 to 2004, and given that global liquidity is declining as we speak, this author is not exactly thrilled with investing in small cap funds over the next few years.
Precisely because of this, subscribers who are investing in individual small caps should at least have 10 to 15 stocks (and in different industries) in his portfolio in order to properly diversify his portfolio.
www.safehaven.com /article-4563.htm   (2030 words)

  
 Small Caps: Part 1 of 2 - Are They For You?
Small caps are also an area where you get what you pay for.
It is not uncommon for a small cap stock to fluctuate 5% or more in a single day.
Now that we've laid out the arguments for and against small cap investing, it is up to you to decide whether or not they fit with your investing personality.
investrio.investopedia.com /articles/01/080101.asp   (692 words)

  
 Small Caps-Small Cap Stock Directory
An optimal size for small caps is somewhere in the...
Small caps are uppercase (capital) letters that are about the size of normal lowercase letters in any given typeface.
Small caps are less intrusive when all uppercase appears within normal text or can be used for special emphasis.
www.small-cap-stock.com /small-caps.html   (506 words)

  
 Stock Promotion, Investor Relations, Email Marketing Stocks, NASDAQ small Caps, OTC Stocks, Pink Sheets Stocks, Penny ...
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 SmallCapReview.com, Small Cap Stocks, Penny Stocks, Microcap Stocks, Your Eye On The Small-Cap Stock Market
As investors pour cash into mutual funds that focus on small companies, money managers are facing an unexpected headache: They don't know what to do with all the money in their funds because there aren't enough promising small companies.
Small caps led the way in what is now an all-too-familiar pattern.
Despite their strong historical performance, micro cap stocks are ignored, unloved, and generally shunned because most investors think they're either on the brink of bankruptcy or penny stocks that will never see a dollar.
www.smallcapreview.com   (812 words)

  
 Small cap outperformance to come to an end? - Dec. 5, 2005
As measured by the Russell 2000, small stocks are up 5.9 percent this year, versus a gain of 4.4 percent for the S&P 500.
In general, small caps -- companies with a market cap from $300 million to $1.5 billion range -- can respond faster to the demands of a worldwide economy, due to their size.
The small cap fund she co-manages is up 12 percent year to date.
money.cnn.com /2005/12/05/markets/smallcaps   (1284 words)

  
 The Standard - Small caps squeezed as oil prices surge - Markets Section
"Small caps have been underperforming in the second half of this year, as they tend to be more sensitive to economic direction,'' Tadashi Ohta at Tokyo-based JF Japan Smaller Company Fund said.
``Generally speaking, small caps which have done well tend to have a strong competitive advantage in a niche business, be in a sector with pricing power such as resources, or are leveraged on Asian consumption,'' Wang said.
The fund is up 20.1 per cent in the year to September 30 compared with the benchmark MSCI World Small Cap Index, which rose 19.2 per cent during that same period and the MSCI World Free Index which gained 12.2 per cent.
www.thestandard.com.hk /stdn/std/Markets/FK11Ag03.html   (535 words)

  
 [DIVIDE BY ZERO] Fonts : 1993-1997
Yikatu (Caps/Lower [small caps], numbers, most punctuation, some special) is the name of a sort of Club that I made up with my cousins when I was a wee child; here is the font in honor of that now defunct (?) organization.
Natural Log (Caps, Lowercase (lots of repetiton, but some are different), some punctuation) is a rather simple font, following the design philosophy that the absence of the expected is as striking as the presence of the unexpected.
Germs (Caps, most punctuation) is a typeface I used to draw all the time when I was a kid -- each of the letters is made into a monster with sharp ravenous teeth and a glaring eye (sort of).
fonts.tom7.com /fonts93.html   (1426 words)

  
 Small-caps: picking winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Big caps, he forecast, will grow their earnings per share by 37 per cent this year, giving them a 2002 PE of 22 times.
Small caps, however, will see their EPS rise by an average of 47 per cent.
But while small caps may have more upside in a good market, investors must be careful with stock picks.
ir.zaobao.com /huanhsin/news/huanhsin160302a.html   (890 words)

  
 Small Cap Fund Market Timing Signals With Rydex Russell 2000 Advantage
At this time, the Small Cap Market Timer goes either long (bullish small cap fund position) or to cash (bearish small cap fund position).
The Small Cap Timer is designed to allow only very small losses and always be on the right side of all bullish small cap trends.
The small cap timing system has been traded in real time since 2002 and back tested through the beginning of 2000 so that its performance in both bull and bear markets could be measured.
www.fibtimer.net /about/small_cap_fund_market_timer.asp   (443 words)

  
 Rules of Typography: Part III
An optimal size for small caps is somewhere in the range of 80–90% of the size of the surrounding text.
It’s easier, however, to type text from the regular font in all uppercase and then select it and reduce its point size, than it is to change to the small cap font, type the text, and then change it back to the regular font.
Capitalized text or small caps appearing within normal text can appear too tight and crowded compared to the surrounding text, and really needs to be loosened up a bit.
www.fontsite.com /Pages/RulesOfType/ROT1197.html   (762 words)

  
 Small Caps Go Into Extra Innings - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
NEW YORK - Last December, Richard Band, editor of Profitable Investing, declared to Forbes.com, that the small cap game was in its fifth or sixth inning--still a few runs to be gained but with the end in sight.
Over 80% of his top-rated picks are small caps such as sub-prime mortgage lender New Century Financial (nasadq: NCEN - news - people), and Southwall Technologies (nasdaq: SWTX - news - people), a firm that makes thin protective films for auto glass and LCDs.
The small cap managers who were boasting a few months ago have cotton in their mouths now.
www.forbes.com /business/smallbusiness/2002/05/02/0502watch.html   (721 words)

  
 Stocks, Small Caps Stocks, OTC Stocks, Pink Sheet Stock, Investor Relations, Penny Stocks
Welcome to Small Caps News, where small publicly held companies are featured for stocks investors who understand the risk and rewards of small caps stocks or OTC stock trading.
As more and more investors are taking charge of their investment choices and doing their own research, we here at Small Caps News.com can make sure small publicly held companies get the stock investors attention.
Small Caps News.com is not a licensed broker, broker dealer, market maker, investment banker, investment advisor, analyst, or underwriter.
www.smallcapsnews.com   (955 words)

  
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The new Schwab study projects 10.3% long-term returns for small caps, which compares favorably to the study's estimate of 8.6% gains for large-cap stocks.
Peterson said the study's estimates for the long-term performances of large caps and bonds are significantly below respective returns of 11.1% and 8.6% during the years 1970 to 2005.
During bull markets, small caps generally outperform large caps, a phenomenon that explains the disparity in Schwab's projected returns for small- and large-cap stocks in coming years.
www.marketwatch.com /News/Story/Story.aspx?guid={954D1E65-0AD8-46C3-B1AC-9C4661F381D3}&siteid=mktw&dist=   (756 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Small caps leave others in their dust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Small fry companies you may have never heard of, like TradeStation (TRAD) and Pumatech (PUMA), are the ones giving the market its juice.
While they have been leading over the past three years, small stocks are now on an absolute tear and are making the bulkier end of the market look like it's standing still.
Small stocks tend to do best when bonds fall, because small companies tend to benefit when the economy grows, a condition that's deadly for bonds, says Keith Wirtz, chief investment officer at Fifth Third Bank.
www.usatoday.com /money/markets/us/2003-08-05-smallcaps_x.htm   (669 words)

  
 Italic Small Caps
small Caps font, Italic style > minion.sty where i say \let\scit\itsc, proving that i can't rememebr > myself which i choosed...
MEO> Not having a real italic MEO> small caps font isn't necessarily a problem, because an oblique version MEO> of a real roman small caps font could be an acceptable substitute.
Even MEO> if a user doesn't have a real small caps font, faked italic small caps MEO> are no uglier than faked roman small caps.
www.tug.org /pipermail/fontinst/2000/000606.html   (556 words)

  
 CAP's
In Caps on classical varieties and their projections we improve on this construction by projecting to a space of much smaller dimension.
In Large caps in small spaces we construct large caps in projective spaces of small dimension (up to 11) defined over fields of order at most 9.
As an application of these constructions we obtain a 1216-cap in PG(9,3) a 6464-cap in PG(11,3) and several caps in ternary affine spaces of larger dimension, which lead to better asymptotics than the caps constructed by Calderbank and Fishburn.
www.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de /~yves/Matritzen/CAPs/CAPMatIndex.html   (916 words)

  
 Ask the Expert: The risk in small caps - Jan. 7, 2005
Invest during a time when small stocks are on a run, and you end up with a big pile of money.
The reason that large caps are large caps is that investors overall have decided (through their dollar "votes") that they deserve a bigger share of the total investment dollars.
If you invest a larger percentage of your stock holdings in small caps than the market overall, you're essentially saying that all other investors as a group have it wrong and that you've got it right.
money.cnn.com /2005/01/07/pf/expert/ask_expert   (953 words)

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