Sentences with phrase «fire sale prices»

Aurora has been especially quiet, with they last release being some time last year, and books sold at fire sale prices.

In extreme cases, liquidity risk can cause you to take huge losses because you have to mark down your property at fire sale prices to attract buyers.

At the request of the government, J. P. Morgan originally agreed to rescue Bear for $ 2 a share, a stunning fire sale price that was eventually raised to $ 10.

The question is whether Sharp will decide to sell off any remaining 5.5 in and 10.8 n Galapagos tablets at fire sale prices like HP did, which could lead to an avalanche of falling tablet prices, something that market leader Apple won't be keen to see.

For example, Sally would have sold for a 7.6 % loss but would have had that capital available to invest in large blue chip stocks trading at fire sale prices during the financial collapse.

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.

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 only did the company itself say that webOS isn't necessarily dead, the TouchPad was also sold off at the fire sale price of $ 99.

Swallowing Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual — both of which JPMorgan absorbed at fire sale prices — was «the right thing», Diller said.

These included overly optimistic economic growth and oil price assumptions; cutting the contingency reserve by two - thirds; selling shares in GM at fire sale prices; raiding EI revenues; and even booking «savings» from unilateral changes to federal employees» sick leave benefits.

Despite the unforeseen fall in oil prices in 2014, the Conservative government, with a lot of slight of hand (reduction in contingency reserve, selling GM shares at fire sale prices, optimistic economic and oil price assumptions), produced a budget that financed all of its pre-election promises, while still leaving a surplus of $ 1.4 billion in 2015 - 16 rising to $ 4.8 billion in 2019 - 20.

«I have never sent an email like this to friends and family but this is a damn good opportunity for anyone if they are looking for an investment and a fire sale price.»

During the least recession, I was picking up shares of stock in a rapidly expanding teen retailer that had fallen to fire sale prices.

Market participants were forced to sell securities at fire sale prices.

The couple have traipsed all over the world, from Thailand to Africa (where Alice had a miscarriage) to South America, where they live in what was once a drug lord's splendid hacienda, bought at a fire sale price.

Give it a rest... its a pile... just like every other badge engineered FCA product about to be handed over to the Chinese at a fire sale price tag

Turns out, he can lease an Outlander Sport for the fire sale price of $ 117 a month.

AT&T is selling off their remaining supply of Lapdock 100's at the fire sale price of $ 49.99, with free shipping.

The rub: No tablet maker can make money at HP's fire sale prices.

At some point in the not too distant future I believe we'll see ebooks on Amazon at fire sale prices.

When impatient investors offer quality companies at fire sale prices, Mr. Deysher buys.

The Federal Reserve Chairman told lawmakers the plan to spend $ 700 billion to buy up bad assets would allow banks to avoid unloading loans at fire sale prices.

However, even with the post-2008 crash and stocks selling at fire sale prices, I was just getting my feet wet and wasn't willing to put thousands of dollars on the line quite yet.

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

No one can sell except at fire sale prices.

All of these were large enough in their own right to be minor crises, and they sent measures of systemic risk up for a while, but ultimately, they were self contained, because market players with strong balance sheets picked up the pieces from failed players, and earned a reasonable return off them after buying up the «toxic waste» at fire sale prices.

Investors won't know beforehand which large companies are likely to disappear (e.g., Lehman Brothers), thereby forcing an unplanned liquidation of the funds at fire sale prices.

I bought at a time when it appeared to me Mr. Market was valuing the company based on a worst case scenario, at a fire sale price.

A big bill for estate taxes, for example, can force a transaction at a fire sale price just to raise sufficient cash to pay the government.

Cancelling the wind power contracts and the next bid process would stem the tide of surplus power, which Ontario sells at «fire sale prices» Gallant claimed recently in a radio interview on CFRA, and save millions.

The table consensus was that Reed - Elsevier eventually would sell off the remnants of LexisNexis to a book publisher at a fire sale price.

If you have a mortgage then I would make sure that the total amount of the mortgage plus another $ 20,000 is there so that your heirs do not have to worry about selling the house at a fire sale price in order to avoid paying the mortgage payments.

Deal terms were not revealed, though one report is puts this deal at the fire sale price of $ 17 million.

Auction properties aren't always great deals — the auctioneer could set a hidden reserve price on it, the minimum you must bid — but the potential to get a luxe residence at «fire sale prices» is such a big draw that, for many people, it compensates for the numerous potential drawbacks.