Sentences with phrase «keep the asset afloat»

The prices of the assets being financed are so high, that one borrowing to own the asset faces a negative arb — he has to keep paying to keep the asset afloat — the net yield is negative.

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A failed business may simply cease operations; with the owners and investors absorbing the losses (if any); a troubled business on the brink of going under may seek to merge with another company that has the resources to keep it afloat and out of bankruptcy; or a dying business may be bought up by another, stronger company, seeking to breathe new life into it or simply to acquire its assets.

Assuming you are a long - term investor, you need to have other asset classes to keep you afloat and sane during these severe market downturns.

They understandably wanted yields higher than the Treasury was paying, as the Fed was flooding the economy with credit to keep asset prices afloat to save the banks from having to take loan write - downs and admit that debt creation was not really the same thing as Alan Greenspan euphemized in calling it «wealth creation.»

At the end, investors have to feed the asset to keep it afloat, giving up current income to support the «asset.»

The 15 ETFs attracted assets of about $ 100 million, which at the ETFs» extremely low expense ratios apparently produced far too little revenue to keep the ETFs afloat.