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cent

[sent] / sɛnt /


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If you had put your money in the S&P 500 at the end of May, you’d have made exactly 1 cent per share by now.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

“He took not one cent from Ralston,” Mr. Blackwood says of Mr. Peterson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Between 2020 and 2025, the carbon footprint of its investments had dropped 42 per cent, the fund said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

The president of the American Farm Bureau Federation says “every cent per gallon matters” when you run a fleet of grain trucks.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

He’d had it for over two years and he hadn’t made a cent.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

Adjusted earnings of 44 cents a share also surpassed the FactSet consensus view of 41 cents.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

That compares with a profit of $475.6 million, or 18 cents a share, a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

I’m considerably less enthusiastic about the possibility of an algorithm deciding that my apparent dependence on black beans means I could stand to pay another 30 cents per can.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

Prices dropped 17.1 cents over the last week, for the biggest weekly decline since the week that ended June 21, according to data from GasBuddy.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

“Fifty cents to save our butts from detention?”

From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya


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