Sentences with phrase «assets at fire sale prices»

Stewardship Capital acquires these nonperforming bank assets at fire sale prices and works with borrowers to create positive solutions.

Management was unhappy about at having to liquidate carefully accumulated assets at fire sale prices, lenders were getting near the end of their tolerance for further cure period extensions, and erstwhile bondholders were wondering what the heck they were doing holding a penny stock.

Not exact matches

The causes of the crisis that nearly killed Bilinkis's company were many: a patronage system, started by Juan and Eva Perón in the 1950s, that grew into a bloated government bureaucracy; a corrupt privatization of government services that sold off some of the country's most valuable assets at fire - sale prices; and a reactionary monetary policy that exacerbated both of these problems.

Past looks at the value of GE's individual businesses — also known as a «sum - of - the - parts» analysis — cast doubt on whether a fire sale of GE's assets would even fetch today's price at $ 13.28 per share.

Opportunity assumes the asset is purchased at a fire sale price and scale.

In simple terms, a bank must have enough liquid assets that can be easily liquefied (not at fire - sale prices) to meet any of its liabilities that fall due within that 30 - day period.

The latter is often practically impossible to do at short notice, or even if it is possible, may only be able to be carried out by selling the assets (such as loan portfolios) at fire - sale prices.

Certain lawyers are asking the president - elect Trump and family to sell all his assets including vast world - wide real estate at fire - sale prices and place the proceeds in a blind trust or US Treasury bonds.

4) «We have to buy up assets that are selling at fire sale prices.

Assets are at fire sale prices because there is not enough balance sheet capacity to buy and hold them over a period where the realization of value is likely.

Uncertainty in housing markets and the economy are forcing financial institutions to mark mortgage securities at fire - sale prices, rather than their value if held to maturity, effectively creating a vicious circle of more write - downs that further depress asset values, Mr. Bernanke explained.

Looking back, we enjoy the benefit of hindsight... but let's not under - estimate the existential threat to the company at the time: Operating free cash flow was minimal, there was little opportunity to realise assets (except at fire - sale prices) in 2009 - 11, almost EUR 400 million of net losses, investment write - downs & goodwill impairments were recorded in the five years ending in 2012 (which actually understates a near - 85 % collapse in net equity), as the banks kept shrinking their committed facilities & imposing harsher terms (and seriously considering pulling the plug).

Because of the vast number of problem loans on their books, some lenders want appraisers to value troubled assets at unreasonably low levels in order to serve their agendas of «dumping» troubled assets at fire - sale prices.