Sentences with phrase «became worthless»

If these investors purchased their stock with borrowed money, they would still have been held responsible to repay the money, even when the stock purchased became worthless.

Policyholders found themselves forced to pay premiums entirely out of pocket; if they couldn't, their policies became worthless.

The jury awards Perelman — who had sued Morgan over its role in his sale of Coleman to Sunbeam for stock that became worthless after an accounting scandal led to bankruptcy — $ 1.45 billion in damages.

CarbonWA was being asked to trust not just that the polling on the alliance measure was good but that it would get better when ballot language was nailed down; not just that the policy had moved its way but that it would continue to do so after January 1, when CarbonWA's 350,000 signatures became worthless.

They did not just avoid the area (don't invest in thrifts or banks, don't invest in home building stocks, don't invest in mortgage guaranty insurers) but found vehicles to invest in that would go up as the housing market bubble burst and the mortgages became worthless.

I learned this early on when I followed an investor «hero» of mine into a position that subsequently became worthless.

The new company then issued new stock, and you had to buy the new stock to see it rise; the old stock became worthless.

After the dust clears, you have one Roth that made a winning bet, making it worth $ 200,000, and another that became worthless due to a losing bet.

The answer is that you're allowed to claim the loss in the year the stock became worthless — but only under a strict rule that poses problems for many taxpayers.

The most the investor could have made is $ 15,000 which would happen if Bitcoin became worthless.

With this news, the entire night became worthless.

With the advent of email correspondence sites, these Russian ladies» addresses (the bread and butter of the small local agencies) became worthless almost overnight.

We had a bull put spread against SPX which today became worthless and we could close it early.

The once easy capital started to dry up and companies with millions in market capitalization became worthless in a very short amount of time.

It could become worthless to save for retirement if an unforeseen event forces you to cash out.

As we've seen in Zimbabwe, Venezuela and elsewhere, a nation's currency can rapidly lose its value and become worthless.

If a single company makes up 20 percent or 30 percent of your portfolio and becomes worthless, it is not a pretty picture for your financial future.

Your coins will essentially become worthless if you lose this.

There I say if the system collapses so badly where even stock certificates of major companies become worthless then we are all on the same boat.

If a hacker gets your password but you have changed it, the password becomes worthless to the hacker.

Of course, it is easy for options to expire and become worthless.

Buy gold and silver like as if the dollar will one day become worthless....

If the rights are non-tradable, they will lapse and become worthless.

Shareholders, as partial owners, can reap high rewards if the company's value soars, but could also see their stocks become worthless should the company price drop.

Having the entirety of your portfolio, or even a sizeable portion thereof, invested in a security that has a 50 % chance of becoming worthless represents an enormous risk.

In fact, when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt in 2008, shareholders of the three Lehman ETNs were left with securities that had become worthless.

Because bitcoins are not shares in a company which can actually become worthless, but rather tokens of a currency which is future - proof and largely immune to government intervention.

Fund managers are worried that some oil fields could become worthless as governments try to reduce fossil - fuel consumption to fight against climate change.

Old textbooks become worthless very quickly.

12All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.»

Once we begin to whittle away at the Word as the absolute authority, the whole thing becomes worthless.

Something that had become worthless to the city is now the pride of the neighborhood.

This is the natural consequence of the logic of exchange as the foundation of worth and value: if worth is based upon what one has or knows or achieves, those who have little by society's standards become worthless and expendable, objects of scorn, neglect and abuse.

If it is a right under present conditions, it is quickly becoming a worthless one.

Pushing them to make straight A's can backfire, especially if the parent believes or sends the message that their teen will become worthless if they don't.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has asked the Federal Trade Commission to protect consumers holding Toys R Us gift cards that could become worthless if the toy retailer moves forward with a liquidation plan.

«We make bold to say that organisational discipline relies on the power of sanction and any human institution that jettisons sanction and rewards impunity will become worthless over time.

Oil and gas reserves in the ground will become worthless, stranded assets; bets backing future discoveries will be binned.

More than a year's worth of expensive data used to trace the shape of the Milky Way galaxy could become worthless as a result of today's closure of U.S. - based radio telescopes because of the government shutdown.

But Sauer fears that some companies, including those making industrial enzymes using natural bacterial genes spliced into E. coli, may find that their intellectual property has suddenly become worthless.

I will concede that the scale can be a motivational tool in the first few weeks of paleo eating and proper exercise, but after that it quickly becomes worthless.

It is necessary to make it clear why single women are attracted to Harley guys before improving your online dating skills, otherwise, all your dating skills will become worthless.

The digital copy expires one year from street date, at which point the disc becomes worthless for all.

«Cutting - edge technology is as perishable as a truckload of ripe bananas: it's worth a fortune today, but if not used quickly, it becomes worthless» (Knoke 1996)

If (when) the automaker enters bankruptcy, the executives» shares likely would become worthless.

If those contracts are not accepted at other dealerships, they become worthless to customers who move away from the dealerships that sold them the contracts.

I do agree that «self publishing» has become a worthless phrase.

Israel has built its own version of the Suez Canal and the Middle East's petroleum reserves have become worthless after the U.S. invention of a new super-fuel.

Reviews are given for price reasons, for political reasons, for religious reasons, so much and so often, that reader reviews have become worthless on Amazon.

(They'll become worthless if the strike price isn't reached by expiration.)