Sentences with phrase «companies during the booming»

British banks increased their exposure to foreign individuals and companies during the booming financial markets of the last few years, a practice which raised few eyebrows at the time.

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During the boom years, those companies were brought to market too soon and scattered their resources in a race against one another, she says.

During the dotcom boom of the late»90s, many securities - law firms traded legal fees for equity to take high - flying tech companies public.

The quasi-state-controlled oil company has new leadership and its stock has been crushed amid the shake up and corruption charges, down as much as 70 % from its peak during the boom years.

For investors bargain hunting in the beleaguered sector, industry analysts recommend a relatively simple formula: Seek out companies that have low debt, that are growing their omnichannel presence (the term that is used to describe retailers» ability to serve customers either in - person or online), and that didn't expand too fast during the mall boom of the 1990s and 2000s.

During the oilsands boom, Canada's biggest energy company spent money as if oil prices would always be north of $ 100.

During the Dot - com boom, companies added dot.com to their names in a bid to attract investors.

That means that because many companies are already used to running their business on data during the boom, they will be able to use data to navigate the bust.

A record - breaking 16 % of Stanford B - school's class of 2011 chose to start their own companies at graduation, exceeding the school's 12 % peak during the dot - com boom.

During the boom years of the 1990s, when many large lenders were aggressively pursuing promising entrepreneurial customers, it made sense for fast - growing companies to upgrade their lending relationships.

And Baby Boomers who may have delayed selling their business during the economic recession are now interested in putting their companies on the market.

If he were following the dot - com millionaire rulebook, he'd have known that what you're supposed to do after hitting it big during the 90s boom is either retire off into the sunset of leisure and angel investing, or if you still have ambition, start a new company with someone else's money.

I recently read that a classmate of mine started a company that was acquired during the Internet boom for $ 500 million when it was just 18 months old.

Instead, the data shows that companies buy back more stock during booms and sell them when the market crashes.

With the economy booming during the Industrial Revolution of the late 19th century, investors wanted to buy shares of companies not included on the NYSE.

The private equity angle — a familiar name in the recent flurries of LBOs that collapsed into bankruptcies, including iHeartMedia, Toys «R» Us, Gymboree: Bain Capital acquired Guitar Center in an LBO during the boom in 2007, whereby the acquired company took on a large amount of debt to fund its own acquisition, and then took on more debt to expand further.

The private equity angle: Apollo acquired the company in a leveraged buyout during the LBO boom in 2007.

How many business leaders of publicly traded companies have the ability to leave gobs of growth on the table, especially during boom times when competitors do not leave growth on the table?

«It is impossible to know the extent to which crypto assets may transform the financial infrastructure and whether most new crypto assets are likely to disappear as in past episodes of technological innovation (as many tech companies did during the boom of the late 1990s, for example),» wrote the IMF.

The founder had sold their first company during the tech boom in 1999 for $ 23 million in less than a year with barely a finished project.

The company thrived during the post-war boom years through to the 1970s, designing bridges, sewage systems, dams and roads throughout Queensland.

After an unprecedented burst of buyouts during the boom leading up to 2008, a vast majority of these companies are hanging on.

At Viximo during the social gaming boom, numerous CPA offer companies like OfferPal, Sometrics, Gambit, SuperRewards, etc..

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Facebook's current annual revenue is around $ 150 million, about 1 % of the company's theoretical valuation of $ 15 billion, and if we learned one thing during the first internet boom, it's that site users» eyeballs only count if you can turn them into dollars.

During the tech boom, companies offered lucrative stock options as an enticement, «but those days are essentially over,» Vargo says.

Investment in the semiconductor industry was flat in Q2, and investment in networking companies, a favorite during the Internet - boom years, showed another drop in a long string of investment declines.

The Republic of Ireland's economy boomed during the 1990s and the early part of this decade on the back of infrastructure funding from the European Union and inward investment from international companies — the archetypal Celtic tiger.

This couple is beyond brains: Paul was an astrophysicist at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, became a software entrepreneur during the Internet boom, and now provides strategic advice to entrepreneurial companies while pursuing research in economics.

In 2012 during the height of the e-reader boom the company generation $ 565 million in a single year.

With one major anime company announcing they're phasing out DVD releases, Krystallina wonders how do we prefer our anime and manga releases.Back during the anime / manga boom of the 2000s, prices were simple: $ 10 got you a manga, and $ 30 got you...

I remember a similar argument when I had a real estate company during the big 70's boom.

The end of the boom comes when a significant amount of companies the overextended their balance sheets during the boom find themselves in a compromised condition, and have a hard time gaining financing.

During the housing boom, there were many of these programs offered by government agencies, nonprofits, and private companies alike.

The low beta, or relative risk and performance to the market, will show that these stocks tend to either perform better - or at least not as poorly - as cyclical stocks in bad times and will usually not be most investors» focal points during the boom part of the business cycle when investors are busy chasing technology stocks and high - growth companies.

(During the dot - com boom of the nineties, a company called Nortel once represented 70 % of Canada's entire stock market value.

However, if the local market experienced high appreciation (a big housing development came in, a big company announced huge expansions and new high paying jobs nearby, etc), then the short time period isn't quite so unusual - especially during boom times.

Nintendo's Amiibo business is booming, as the company revealed during a recent investor's meeting that more than 20.50 million Amiibo figures were sold last year.

Ali Ağaoğlu, a billionaire developer in Turkey, caused a stir last year when he admitted that his family's company — and most other developers — routinely used inappropriate materials during a building boom in Istanbul in recent decades, creating enormous vulnerability because of the long history of powerful earthquakes in the sprawling city.

While there has clearly been a shakeout of some of the large companies in the US and EU that had expanded during the initial FiT led boom, that's just the growing pains of a new, still - developing market.

During the dot - com boom of the late 1990s, many young lawyers left big firm jobs to become general counsels of young companies.

Circumstances beyond the control of Boom Interactive Learning and its affiliated companies may cause delays during the student's course participation.

During an investor call on Thursday, the company's CEO said that it was working to increase supply in order to meet the high demand spurred by the cryptocurrency boom.

However, as the public real estate market has boomed during the last 18 months, many retail - based companies have been left out of the investment community's shopping spree.

Another factor is that companies often buy when they have extra capital — during a boom — and sell when they need cash — during a contraction.

Although I joined the company in the middle of the housing boom, the majority of my tenure has been during the rockiest real estate market in many years.»

In its first salvo earlier this month, the federal mortgage task force formed by the Justice Department sued Bear Stearns & Company, currently a unit of JPMorgan Chase, accusing the company of widespread misconduct during the heady days of the housing boom in the packaging and sale of mortgage secuCompany, currently a unit of JPMorgan Chase, accusing the company of widespread misconduct during the heady days of the housing boom in the packaging and sale of mortgage secucompany of widespread misconduct during the heady days of the housing boom in the packaging and sale of mortgage securities.

The reason the number of affordable / subprime mortgages skyrocketed during the boom was because lower lending standards mean more people can get mortgages and that means mortgage companies can sell more mortgages.

When it comes to the best multi-tenant centers and the most coveted triple net leased stores, values are now higher than they were during the boom, according to Neill Kelly, president of DJM Realty, a Gordon Brothers company that offers consulting and advisory services to retailers.