Sentences with phrase «sold at fire sale prices»

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

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

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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.

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.

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.

The latter is often practically impossible to do at short notice, or even if it is possible, may only be able to be carried out by selling the assets (such as loan portfolios) at fire - sale prices.

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.

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

Certain lawyers are asking the president - elect Trump and family to sell all his assets including vast world - wide real estate at fire - sale prices and place the proceeds in a blind trust or US Treasury bonds.

The order was abruptly cancelled, so GM sold the majority of these oddball orphans in Canada, and at a fire - sale price.

Amazon has sold over 2.2 million Fire Tablets in the first quarter of 2017 and the Seattle company continues to market them at a very aggressive price point with a strategy to drive content and product sales via the device.

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

The pricing strategy would make waves, but it isn't a wholly new one: Amazon's own Kindle Fire tablets are sold at low cost with the intent to generate profits from app, book, video, and music sales, as well as advertisements.

The retailers will sell the Kindle Fire at the same price as Amazon, so Amazon will make less from each sale.

For each of the firms they track, they know what qualifies as the «fire sale» price of the stock, typically the lowest p / e or lowest price / book ratios at which the stock has sold.

And so was market volatility, which played a significant role in scaring retail investors into selling their mutual fund holdings which in turn caused large mutual fund managers to flood the market with inventory at fire - sale prices.

But it's a grave danger for those near or in retirement: Selling stocks at fire - sale prices, either out of panic or because you need income, can cause massive financial damage.

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.

However, the Federal Housing Finance Agency's well - intentioned bulk sales - to - rental program has the potential to destabilize markets that already have low inventories by taking properties that could be sold to individuals at market prices and putting them in the hands of a few investors at fire - sale prices.