On the first day of our Do the Math tour, the Mayor of Seattle announced that he would be looking
into divesting the city from fossil fuels.
Latest case in point comes from a NY Times report that de Blasio is trying to strong - arm trustees of NYC employee pension funds — who are supposed to be fiduciaries of their beneficiaries, not mayoral rubber stamps —
into divesting from oil stocks:
The last thing any entrepreneur wants is to be forced
into divesting at a fire - sale price.
Not exact matches
Qalaa will
divest a number of its non-core assets over the next five years and reinvest the money
into the five key sectors it is now focusing on, says Ahmed Heikal, chairman and founder of Qalaa Holdings.
RBS had also contemplated seeking to keep Henry Bath as a merchant deal after buying
into the Sempra Commodities business in 2008, but ultimately decided that it would be better to
divest Henry Bath than hold it at arm's length, according to a person familiar with the decision.
That bodes ill for Canada's short - term economic prospects, and therefore is another reason to
divest before Trump's tweets turn
into profit - killing tariffs.
Michael Hudson: I guess the main thing that came out of the Panama Papers was that Ukrainian President Poroshenko had promised to
divest of his chocolate company and instead, he simply moved it
into an offshore account.
Alphabet's self - driving arm, Waymo, has recently sued Uber for allegedly stealing trade secrets, and Alphabet's other investing arm, CapitalG, just this fall led a fundraising round
into Lyft, leading many to believe that Alphabet would seek to
divest somewhat from Uber, Lyft's main US competitor.
According to a recent report by Deloitte, 25 percent more companies expect to go the M&A route to
divest and 85 % indicated that their deals involved acquiring companies to expand
into foreign markets, up from 73 % last year.
Calls to
divest from Remington, which made the AR - 15 used in Sandy Hook, are one factor that pushed the company
into bankruptcy.
If any one of them loses contact with the others, it degenerates
into a caricature that eventually
divests it of its revelatory character, of its transparency to mystery.
I had to be the caregiver, the cleaner, the cook because my wife was to
into herself to
divest any time for her family.
I should take a quote from «Equities Market Outlook in 2017» issued by Afrinvest reported in the media under the headline «Multiple Exchange Rates Stall Foreign Inflow
into Nigerian Equities» in January 2017, «Our interactions with several foreign investors with interests in Nigeria suggest that a decision to stake any position in the Nigerian market will be a function of currency liquidity and a greater certainty on their ability to repatriate capital anytime they
divest.
New York, NY — Just one day before dozens of New Yorkers will take action at the New York City pension fund meeting calling for full divestment from fossil fuels, actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio added his voice, calling on New York to step
into its leadership and
divest from fossil fuels.
«As the hottest year in recorded history comes to a close, New York has a unique responsibility to step
into its leadership to fully
divest and take meaningful action on climate,» said Beta Coronel, 350.org Reinvestment Coordinator.
He says the study «does not take
into account the efforts by DSM - 5 task force and work group members to
divest themselves from relationships with the pharmaceutical industry».
The opening sequences, in which Gallo's character is captured, interrogated, and tortured by American soldiers (from whom he then manages to escape), turn the ostensible political substance of the film
into caricature,
divesting it of weight.
She turns
into a popular revival - tent preacher who threatens Joe's plans to
divest his rum smuggling
into a casino.
An anti-auteur of these movies, Walt Disney determined their outcome by
divesting resources from their development — including his own expertise — and pouring them
into his personal Taj Mahal, Disneyland.
Although I had been toying with the idea of taking some profits, I did also take your advice
into consideration and
divested my BAC shares today.
And there's nothing stopping them from
divesting into growth stocks once they learn more and feel more comfortable with investing.
As oil and gas prices decline and the availability of reserved - based senior credit becomes increasingly scarce, exploration and production companies are seeking to refinance
into more traditional term loans or to
divest royalties in an effort to...
Shortly afterward, the same guidelines forced Pax to
divest itself of its Starbucks shares, after the coffee company entered
into a deal with Jim Beam, the distiller, to market a coffee - flavored liqueur.
Building upon this notion of the disembodied image in his video installation... a hazy and confused landscape, Barocca cuts, reassembles, slows, and loops various sections of Kreta, a WWII - era German propaganda film,
into four sequences, to
divest the moving images of any ideological or historical identification and disrupt the film's narrative structure.
Compound Flat 50, 52, 59, and 58 (subtitled Pink Dropout) are based on stacked double rectangles, suggesting open sash windows — or, again, stretcher bars —
divested of their glass or canvas, with swaths of fabric (actually pigmented epoxy) inserted
into the mechanisms, holding them in place, or together; the window idea is borrowed, of course, from traditional painting.
The essential point, insofar as Minimalism and its impact on our thought is concerned, is that the industrial materials Bladen used are
divested of whatever inherent meaning their origins may have held and transformed
into vehicles for the sculptor's imagination.
Each painting revealed a consistency of steady curves and constrained marks, partially adumbrated surfaces, replete with figures, birds, planets, meteors, all wistful billowing amorphous shapes shielding obtuse forms and
divested fields of color, all emerging
into luminous, conflicting patterns.
After looking
into the growing movement to
divest from fossil fuels and invest in climate solutions, I was convinced to make the pledge on behalf of myself and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.
That makes me hopeful for our future, and it's sending a clear message to world leaders as they head
into Paris: It's time for them to follow suit, and
divest our governments from fossil fuel companies too.»
Beginning as a movement in 2011, young people on campuses across the US were determined that their college or university should not be putting money
into fossil fuels, and urged their schools to
divest their endowments away from fossil fuel companies.
While that will be a recurring question heading
into Paris later this year, some institutional investors already have
divested from fossil fuels, most visibly eschewing coal.
PhD student Alex Hemingway, spokesperson for
Divest UBC, felt that an institution like UBC would send a «powerful message,» about the urgency of tackling climate change and the importance of putting words
into action.
As Bainbridge explains, a specific Tax Code provision allows judges to
divest an asset causing a conflict of interest so as to hear the case and avoid paying capital gains so long as any gains are deposited
into a Treasury security or an approved mutual fund.
If it's a minor territory, the company will sometimes enter
into an agreement to
divest itself of local assets or entities.
«The company has entered
into definitive agreements with a consortium of investors led by True North Managers, an India based private equity fund, to
divest its entire stake in Religare Health Insurance Company Ltd (RHI),» Religare Enterprises Ltd (REL) said in a BSE filing today.
Liberty Property Trust hopes to raise up to $ 800 million for reinvestment
into industrial acquisition and development by
divesting its remaining suburban office portfolio by the end of the year.
Not
divesting everything
into notes, but a place.