Sentences with phrase «bought big stakes»

In December 2014, hedge fund Glenview Capital Management bought a big stake in Avis Budget, just over 5 % of outstanding shares.

DO you suppose it's a coincidence that this stuff happens only a year after Microsoft buys a big stake in B&N?

Warren Buffett's firm buys big stake in retail credit card issuer while dumping shares in its former parent, GE; long - awaited update speeds transactions in the digital currency network.

Moreover, series developer tri-Ace looked bound for background roles and mobile - game toil after Nepro Japan bought a big stake in the company and Square Enix relegated them to support work on Final Fantasy XIII sequels.

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There's some inherent drama to buying a house: big sums of money, high emotional stakes, tense negotiations, simply tragic interior decor.

Reuters reported last month that Walmart was close to buying a majority stake in Flipkart, Amazon's biggest rival in India, for $ 10 billion to $ 12 billion.

When the news broke late on Wednesday in Moscow, Russian and western media trumpeted it as the energy deal of the year: Glencore (glncy), the world's biggest commodities house, and the Qatar Investment Authority had agreed to buy a 19.5 % stake in Rosneft, Russia's national oil champion, for 10.5 billion euros ($ 11.1 billion).

Of course, it includes a lot of assets that an average investor can't easily buy — including big stakes in privately held companies and infrastructure facilities like toll roads and airports, to name just a couple.

Steve Williams, head of the oldest and biggest operator in the business, gave his answer recently when Suncor Energy bought a further 10 % stake in the Fort Hills oilsands project for $ 310 million from partner Total SA.

The MCNs behind some of YouTube's biggest stars have grown to become quite valuable to major media and entertainment companies: in just the last year, Disney bought Maker Studios for $ 500 million, German - based broadcaster Prosieben invested in Collective Digital Studio, Otter Media took a controlling stake in Fullscreen and Europe's RTL Group bought a majority stake in StyleHaul.

So if he buys up a chunk of your company, take it as a mark of confidence: The sale of CPPIB's stake in auto parts manufacturer Gates Corp. for $ 1.5 billion and its $ 128 - million purchase of 115,000 acres of Saskatchewan farmland are just two recent examples that show no deal is too big or small for the CCPIB head honcho.

In June, Tencent Holdings Ltd, China's biggest gaming group, agreed to buy a majority stake in Clash of Clans mobile game maker Supercell from SoftBank Group Corp in an $ 8.6 billion deal.

It is not the first time Brookfield Property's attempt to buy out a real estate investment trust in which it already owns a big stake has been rejected.

PARIS, Feb 9 - L'Oreal on Friday underscored its readiness to buy Nestle's 23 percent stake in the world's biggest cosmetics firm were its Swiss shareholder to sell, saying it had access to cash and funding at its disposal.

One of the more cryptic moves of the conference came when it was mentioned that Nelson Peltz has bought up a big stake in DuPont.

Eight months after the big - box giant's initial bid to buy Massmart Holdings, the South African government has approved the deal, giving Walmart a 51 % stake in the local retail chain.rn

Eight months after the big - box giant's initial bid to buy Massmart Holdings, the South African government has approved the deal, giving Walmart a 51 % stake in the local retail chain.

NYSE in 2015 bought a stake in Coinbase, one of the biggest crypto exchanges.

We're just one month into the New Year and already, big - name challengers are muscling in on the competition, buying up rival operators and staking their claim to new (and old) territories.

A big earnings beat might cause a lot of «Transient» investors to buy that stock, pushing up the price, but most of these investors will sell their stakes not long after, pushing the price back down.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters)- Saudi oil giant Aramco will buy an equity stake in Malaysian firm Petronas» major refining and petrochemical project, the companies said on Tuesday, pumping in $ 7 billion in its biggest downstream investment outside the kingdom.

Geely has bought a nearly 10 percent stake in Daimler AG, becoming the German automaker's biggest shareholder and gaining leverage to push for technology sharing.

In what is considered a first step for even bigger foreign direct investment to Sri Lanka, TPG Capital announced in August it would invest $ 113 million to buy a majority stake in Union Bank, a small distressed financial institution based in Colombo.

Meanwhile, Markel pays no dividend, but instead uses its cash to buy other companies (or big stakes in them), which deliver further cash flow.

But there's a big difference: Money given to a company through a Kickstarter campaign is a donation often rewarded with a company's product; money given through an SEC - approved portal buys an ownership stake.

And whoever buys Yahoo has to also deal with SoftBank and its desire to get out of large annual payments it makes to the company, which owns a big stake in Yahoo Japan.

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M&A typically involves a bigger, better funded business buying a controlling stake in a high - potential brand and using its deep pockets, international expertise and existing support network to accelerate growth.

Chinese firm Beijing Kunlun Tech buys a controlling stake in Grindr, the worlds biggest gay.

Elsewhere in the big gala stakes there's Damien Chazelle's La La Land (his follow - up to Whiplash) which, after its breathless reception at Venice, will no doubt sell out instantly, so get your ticket - buying finger limbered and ready.

As a fund gets bigger, its menu of potential purchases shrinks; it can no longer invest in smaller companies because buying a meaningful stake could drive up the price.

But because they buy a small slice of every stock, and hold them through thick and thin, the impact is muted when any single company falls out of bed — and they always have a stake in the market's big winners.

That's because we try to sell high and buy low by cutting back on stocks after a big run up, and increasing our stake after a drop.

Although it's nice to publish big, fancy numbers on these updates I really wish the run in equities was much less and I'd actually have larger ownership stakes in many companies because my money would have bought more shares.

Last year, Tencent bought a majority stake worth $ 8.6 billion in Supercell, developers of Clash of Clans and Clash Royale, two of the biggest mobile phone games in the world.

The iPhone maker struck a deal this week to buy a 30 % stake in three subsidiaries of Goldwind, China's biggest wind - turbine manufacturer.

According to the New York Post, one of China's biggest business and entertainment tycoons has bought a 27 % stake in the Delaware Board of Trade, a company operating one of

But the deep - pocketed firm already has a big stake in the industry as controlling shareholder of publicly held Brookdale Senior Living Inc. (NYSE: BKD), which has been on a buying binge.

When General Growth Properties announced last month that it would acquire the venerable Rouse Co. in a deal worth $ 12.6 billion, it was the latest in a series of big - money plays that saw Simon buy Chelsea Property Group for $ 3.5 billion and Mills Corp. buy a $ 1.3 billion stake in nine malls owned by GM's pension plan.