Sentences with phrase «deals were done at»

At the peak of the real estate bubble in 2006 and 2007, some deals were done at even lower rates: for instance, New York City's Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village apartment buildings sold at a cap rate of 3.1 % based on highly optimistic assumptions.

I would want to see what recent new deals were done at and what inducements were made.

The fact that the deal was done at a discount to VXGN's $ 0.70 close Wednesday and at a substantial discount to its $ 0.77 — $ 2.00 value in liquidation is frustrating.

Not exact matches

(See How to Deal with Time Wasters) Such sessions rarely accomplish anything except maybe some pseudo-bonding; they don't have a logical and clearly - understood endpoint so they seem both pointless and interminable; and, most often, they sorta drool to a conclusion without agreed - upon action items and / or documented next steps for at least half the people in the room.

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

So many of the other deals being discussed are «so what» stories at best and, as I always say, two warm cups of coffee don't make a hot drink.

As an ex-CISO, what advice do you have for the many startups at RSA Conference who are hoping to get attention and close deals?

There's a great deal to be gleaned from people who have actually done what you're hoping to do rather than from newbies who are inventing their «careers» as they roll along, hoping at the same time to get their businesses built and scaled before they run out of time, cheap money or good ideas.

Particularly companies going out to find deals because they feel that they are under pressure to do something,» Andrew Cave, Head of Governance & Sustainability at Baillie Gifford, said.

This doesn't mean there isn't a great deal of money to be made during the bear market (on both the long and short side), but at some point we must recognize that our global imbalances all remain.

Not to mention Jay Clayton, who is not technically from the private equity industry, but also did a lot of PE deals while in his most recent job at Sullivan & Cromwell.

But while the numbers are certainly big enough to justify the billing, the deal is almost certainly not what it appears at first sight — and the still - murky reality of it most likely has as much to do with geopolitics as with business.

«GBP fell on the back of the Telegraph report on fear that we could be out of the EU without a deal even sooner than thought — though actually this doesn't make sense because the only way we could leave earlier than March 2019 would be if a deal had been struck,» Jane Foley, head of forex strategy at Rabobank, told CNBC via email.

«It is a great way for us to look at deals we can do and companies we can get involved in,» he told me.

Or, if a colleague is great at dealing with criticism, reach out to them and see if they can show you how to do the same.

«We're doing very well, and that's primarily because the Irish VCs are particularly good at syndicating deals for Irish companies,» Breheny says.

«At some point, the lack of productivity by an employee catches up and has to be dealt with — either in the employee having to do marathon work days to catch up or by simply firing the offender.»

There is the cheaper Slingbox 350 at $ 179, but it doesn't have Wi - Fi or on - screen setup, both of which are bound to be deal breakers for many.

«In my own experience in dealing with the North Koreans, there's never been a discussion that they will denuclearize... I don't believe that they're committed to doing that now,» Cohen, currently the chairman and CEO of consultancy The Cohen Group, said Sunday at the China Development Forum in Beijing.

«While OPEC are doing really well in terms of compliance with their current deal and are likely to provide strong words of support for continuing some sort of an arrangement going into 2019, they will be talking about how to taper down the scale of the support at this May meeting,» Shah told CNBC Tuesday.

Executives at a half - dozen fintech companies said the Vision Fund has told them it's looking to do deals where it can put at least $ 200 million to work over one or multiple investment rounds.

If you have $ 150 to spend, we recommend jumping up to the Moto G4 instead of the A30, but if you have a hard cap at $ 100, Alcatel's budget phone is a good deal — especially if you don't mind the ads and get the subsidized version.

The most substantive results are eight deals done over the last 5 years that I have been involved with coming out of the University of Texas at Austin's Texas Venture Labs.

But although Canada's real national pastime is played on the green, in the tax man's eyes business deals conducted between swings aren't equal to those done at the rink.

We could at any time do one of the larger deals but it wouldn't surprise me if there is space between them.

M&A will never be 100 % successful and we learn from every deal we do, and so not to pick on any specific deal, but I've learned, based on relative success of deals we've done in the past, is making sure the key leaders at the company share a vision with the founder, making sure the strategy drives the M&A, as opposed to the M&A driving the strategy, and making sure we have good support mechanisms for these companies after they come in.

The deal to manage the NBA Store, which it signed in May, is new territory for Fanatics, although it does have some relevant experience in brick - and - mortar on a smaller scale, thanks to recent retail promotions at NASCAR tracks and at college and pro stadiums.

I see founders who think they can be at every conference, advise multiple companies, do side investments in angel deals, leave the office at 6 pm and have a balanced life.

Some analysts suspect the deal fatigue consumers are already feeling will spread to merchants who find the rush of customers at 50 % off does not translate into repeat business at full price.

The demographic is still profoundly lagging when it comes to purchasing a home (at least when compared to previous generations), but when they do buy, they have been known to get rid of their car if it means getting a better deal.

Drummond suggests that no matter how the Americans deal with the debt, it could throw Canada into a double - dip recession: «It could be a lose - lose, because if they deal with it in a draconian fashion, then they'll kill off the recovery, but if they don't deal with it at all, they're going to see lower U.S. growth, drive down the U.S. dollar, raise the bond premiums — and that would be a disaster for Canada.»

If the company can demonstrate that it can figure out a way to make money at least as well as its peers — never mind the fact that its customers are almost entirely within the age 18 - 34 demographic that advertisers have traditionally most coveted — $ 19 billion isn't a goal; it's practically a done deal.

«We're at a crossroads, and what I worry about is that if we don't deal with this crisis properly, and just paper over the potholes, we'll be dealing with [these issues] again.»

«Each area needs growth in earnings and in sales, or at least one of those, and the only way to get it by now is to actually do deals, do deals with other companies in the industry,» he said.

Unfortunately for HP, things didn't work out well on the IT services front and the company is struggling under the load at a time when large outsourcing deals are shrinking.

When we were at the commission considering those things, four seemed to be in place just because the FCC didn't have the bandwidth to deal with it.

For simplicity's sake, and so the company doesn't have to deal with currency hedging, they decided to sell the scanner through the website at a single retail price of US$ 579, even though, as Cox observes, they're over-pricing in some markets and underpricing in others.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, asked in a conference call with reporters if the deal would go ahead if Moscow did not agree to joint production, said: «Contacts and negotiations at an expert level in the context of this deal are ongoing.

I think the speech was mostly because in order for this policy to work, our supervisor has to manually remove the unapproved minutes from our timecards so that we won't be paid for them (paying a supervisor to spend 10 minutes removing 5 minutes from a subordinate's pay doesn't work out for me in a cost / benefit sense but that is the sort of logic we're dealing with at this place).

Some customers don't click on the purchase button because, at the last minute, they want to assure themselves they are getting the best possible deal.

«The key is not to trap gains in a C corporation,» says Steve Wiltse, partner at accounting firm Argy, Wiltse & Robinson PC, in McLean, Va. «You want some flexibility by doing the deals in a pass - through entity like an S corporation or an LLC.»

«There are losers from (open trade) and as long as governments deal with the losers, so that they don't feel left out, then everyone can benefit,» Pissarides told CNBC on Saturday at the China Development Forum in Beijing.

What you need to do is design your price points and rewards properly so as to reach your goal, while at the same time giving your project's backers the best possible deal.

Salix Pharmaceuticals, which Valeant itself bought last year, did not have a permanent CEO when the deal was announced, but its acting CEO at the time, Thomas D'Alonzo, likely already knows Valeant pretty well.

«We are a nonpartisan group, but small businesses just don't benefit at all from tax breaks on in the upper bracket, and they don't benefit from large corporate loop holes,» says Arensmeyer, adding that not addressing this now just means Washington will have to deal with it later.

Last year, Microsoft Ventures chief Nagraj Kashyap told VentureBeat that the overwhelming majority of startups the company invests in are using clouds that compete with Azure at the time of the deal, and the tech titan doesn't force a change.

The worst thing you can do at this point is to give the discount, because then you've told the prospect you can't be trusted to offer the best deal.

And while it's true that there's really nothing you can do to ensure that you never have to deal with everyday psychopaths, apparently there is at least one way you could decrease your chances — you could avoid going into certain professions.

But just because conflict is inevitable when colleagues of diverse backgrounds and temperaments are thrown together in a high stress work environment, doesn't mean disputes can't be dealt with constructively and in a way that reinforces rather than erodes morale at your company.

He's struck a deal with Stein Roe to resell that company's mutual funds at www.youngmoney.com and is transforming his site — now just an online face for the magazine — into a transaction - oriented one that he describes as «E * Trade for kids,» where they can do online trading with very little money.