Sentences with phrase «fire sales of»

Vivendi has had an interesting past plagued by what seems to be fire sales of some of their properties, most recently a $ 35 million asset dump over the past two - years.

CEFC China Energy, the once high - flying conglomerate that is now conducting fire sales of its assets following an investigation into its chief, appears to be hitting rock bottom.

Some younger entrepreneurs are attempting to cash out early, before the predicted fire sale of boomer - owned businesses has a chance to depress prices.

After receiving a $ 10 - billion bailout from the Dutch government in 2008, ING embarked on a fire sale of foreign divisions and «noncore» assets that continues today.

Past looks at the value of GE's individual businesses — also known as a «sum - of - the - parts» analysis — cast doubt on whether a fire sale of GE's assets would even fetch today's price at $ 13.28 per share.

Khosromshahi and his companies have donated close to $ 1 million to the B.C. Liberal party since 2000, and a quarter of a million dollars just since the B.C. Liberals began their fire sale of public assets.

Given their contractual 50 % share on the revenue the ads they place generate from our site, this represents a fire sale of valuable site real estate.

The need for a formal ACCC review of potential competition issues if Saputo — Australia's fourth - largest milk processor through its ownership of Warrnambool Cheese & Butter — takes over Murray Goulburn, Australia's second - largest dairy processor, could delay the planned quick fire sale of the financially crippled co-operative by as much as 24 weeks.

In fact, with the Spanish side hovering just above the relegation zone, Arsenal might be better off waiting for the summer, when a potential drop to the second division could trigger a serious fire sale of players.

we have waited a long time for this club to truly step up, which is a difficult ask... to do so properly they will need to overextend themselves and get well outside the comfort zone they have become accustomed to... at the very least they owe their fans, most of whom supported this franchise for at least the first 8 years of this 10 year plan, one real shot at the «promised» land... remember phase one was build and save, phase two was the fire sale of all our top players, phase three was supposed to be our metamorphosis, when we were literally told how we could compete with any club in the world and phase four appears to be rinse and repeat, under the guise that we just can't seem to find any players that are better than our current lot (can you even imagine the state of world soccer if that were truly the case)... it's time for you Mr. Kroenke and Mr. Wenger to ask not what the fans can do for you, but what you two can do to make things right again for the fans... if you can't do this earnestly and honestly, simply move on before the only thing left in the cupboard are bitter memories and what could have beans?

Not after the Great Fire Sale of 2012.»

Rumours of a fire sale of players appeared again during the winter transfer window, but Shakhtar was able to resist several offers from abroad, including a concrete offer from Chelsea for the Brazilian attacking midfielder Douglas Costa, for whom the fee was rumoured to be in the region of # 30m.

In his book, Dark Days in Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah said that was no possible justification for the abandonment of Ghana's 1963/4 Seven Year Development Plan and the fire sale of Ghana's assets after the illegal overthrow of his government in 1966.

Ministers are pushing ahead with this politically motivated fire sale of Royal Mail to fill the hole left by George Osborne's failed plan.

The fire sale of the Fire Phone, Amazon's first smartphone, continues.

The fire sale of the $ 99 priced TouchPad should be a lesson to all for it has proved that if a product is priced cheap enough, there will never be a dearth of buyers.

They still only sell well now because everyone and their mom's is doing a fire sale of «Buy one get one free» on the S2's.

We saw just that scenario with a $ 99 fire sale of HP TouchPads last month, for example.

Last summer's # 89 fire sale of HP TouchPads was greeted with such a ravenous appetite that most stores sold out of the webOS slate within minutes.

There is the risk that the issuing company will go bankrupt in the meantime, but bondholders are usually ahead of shareholders when it comes receiving cash from the fire sale of a bust company.

«One of the big problems that we see is a lack of any new plan for good jobs, we see a fire sale of public assets, we see huge implications around cuts to jobs.

But loosely speaking, what has happened in the western world (not just the US, we have plenty going on in Europe) is something that has been done to the rest of the world since the 1970s; a debt fueled boom is induced, government ends up borrowing too much on the back of it, the boom turns to bust, and in the fallout there is a savaging of various government programs and a fire sale of assets.

The deal, which is subject approval from the courts, will be pushed through after Cobbetts yesterday (30 January) filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators ahead of a fire sale of its business.

Banks initially tried to avoid a fire sale of their loan assets by issuing billions of dollars in new equity to strengthen balance sheets.

Not exact matches

Ultimately if you're seeking for approval or board consensus on an action (getting approval for a budget, raising money, investing in CAPEX, firing a head of sales — whatever) your job is to hold a discussion in which all board members who want to voice an opinion can do so and ultimately pushing for a vote or a resolution.

Widespread fires forced many Main Street business owners to evacuate or close their stores, just as shops geared up for the last three weeks of holiday sales.

The Google - owned startup has halted sales of its hand - gestured smoke alarm because — oops — it might not go off during a real fire.

So, while managers of sales teams give lip service to learning experiences derived from failure, that speech isn't going to help the low - earning salesperson who's on probation (or worse, fired) or even the whole team.

Either your head of sales is the right person, or fire him or her.

Since the dawn of time, sales experts have been obsessed with an element more elusive and unpredictable than fire: the perfectly - written Twitter bio.

The transaction — which Laliberte said wasn't a «fire sale» at a reported value of around $ 1.5 billion — will also see partner Dubai World sell its 10 per cent stake.

One example is the use of stolen financial information to undercut an acquisition target's market value in order to later acquire the company at a fire - sale price.

The causes of the crisis that nearly killed Bilinkis's company were many: a patronage system, started by Juan and Eva Perón in the 1950s, that grew into a bloated government bureaucracy; a corrupt privatization of government services that sold off some of the country's most valuable assets at fire - sale prices; and a reactionary monetary policy that exacerbated both of these problems.

You may not have heard of Wayfair, but neither have a lot of the people who've turned the online purveyor of home goods (faux florals, ceiling fans, fire pits) into a nearly $ 1 - billion - in - sales business.

Robert Cihra, another industry analyst, thinks Kindle Fire could «vaporize» other tablets running the Android operating system, and comprise 50 % of Android tablet sales this year.

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.

A sudden fire sale might signal the wrong kind of message.

That's because one of the advantages of owning preferred stock is that preferred stock holders get their money back before «common» stock - holders in the case of a fire sale.

He also bought competing sites in fire sales as they went out of business.

People are promoted rapidly because of a single great quarter or sale — or written off or fired because of a single bad quarter or lost client.

Ariad's leukemia drug, Iclusig, which is expected to generate sales of $ 170 million - $ 180 million in 2016, came under fire in October for «staggering» price increases.

Still, the Silk Road fire sale exposed the feds to ridicule from cryptocurrency devotees — and in an era of strained budgets, the pressure to sell high is great.

Bump stocks have never been more than niche firearms accessory, although Slide Fire's sales exceeded $ 10 million its first year of business.

Despite having share prices that move with market prices, these funds can give rise to first - mover advantages for redeeming shareholders and create the potential for destabilizing waves of redemptions and asset fire sales if liquidity buffers and other tools to manage liquidity risk prove insufficient.

«The main result of this analysis is that the best clients of the aware brokers are significantly more likely than other clients to sell the stocks that the liquidating manager is offloading during the fire sale,» wrote Marco Di Maggio, assistant professor at Harvard Business School.

More broadly, the regulatory agencies in the United States and the Financial Stability Board internationally have work under way focusing on possible fire - sale risk associated with the growing share of less liquid bonds held in asset management portfolios on behalf of investors who may be counting on same - day redemption when valuations fall.

The company's comparable sales for the third quarter were down 3 percent, including an estimated negative impact from a fire at one of its distribution centers in August.

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

That may present be an opportunity for visitors who couldn't afford a theme park vacation this year, but it won't be anything on the order of the fire sales held almost 15 years ago.

At that point, Rosen did the unthinkable: he fired the rest of the sales force and nearly every person on staff.