Sentences with phrase «to clean up one's balance sheet»

You do know what happens after indices go through lengthy consolidation periods and the underlying companies clean up their balance sheets, right?

REITs are also in a stronger financial position today because they have spent the past two years cleaning up their balance sheets.

While other financial companies were scrambling to clean up their balance sheets in the wake of the Great Recession, Fairfax raked in a profit of more than $ 2 billion on Watsa's bearish bet.

Ryan Krauch, principal with Mesa West Capital, a Los Angeles - based privately held, institutional commercial real estate lender, notes that once banks clean up their balance sheets, they might feel more comfortable underwriting commercial real estate transactions.

It also vindicates Buffett «s confidence in Bank of America Chief Executive Brian Moynihan, who accepted his money when the bank was only midway through cleaning up balance sheet and litigation issues tied to the U.S. housing and financial crises.

At the same time, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) launched an asset quality review for banks to take necessary steps to clean up their balance sheets by March 2017.

Tasked with avoiding a new financial crisis, the ECB is putting pressure on banks to clean up their balance sheets from unpaid loans inherited from the last recession, a problem for most countries in the south of Europe, as well as Slovenia and Ireland.

«These include cleaning up their balance sheets, reducing legacy exposures largely originating from the financial crisis, such as certain non-marketable financial products, and from the ensuing Great Recession, such as non-performing loans.»

Our message is there is an opportunity in down markets when your share prices are depressed to take steps to clean up the balance sheet even though it has a significant dilution effect on existing shareholders.

That robust liquidity is a culmination of factors, including a concentrated focus on cleaning up balance sheets, not only as a strategic step to be ready for any acquisition opportunities that arise for purchases, but also to be able to ride out any potential weakness or volatility in the market, says Mui.

But the success by the larger banks at cleaning up their balance sheets signals a move toward stability in the broader property market.»

Put another way, if the government gives Canada Post the tools it needs to clean up its balance sheet and make a serious run at new markets, this Crown corporation may turn out to be an attractive buy a few years hence.

With the exception of the U.S., which recently extended Bush - era tax cuts and unemployment benefits under what has been dubbed «Stimulus II,» the push for deeply indebted countries to clean up their balance sheets has taken centre stage.

Since Slim's loan, Times Co. has cleaned up its balance sheet, created a paywall for its website and introduced new digital products.

Lastly, many managers see opportunity in the financial sector, as banks in Europe have worked very hard in recent years to clean up their balance sheets and get stronger.

That said, while EM governments seem to have cleaned up their balance sheets, overall leverage in total EM debt has increased due to the build up of leverage from EM corporates.

Frank says when it comes to the price of oil, it's important to recognize that some of the big name companies are cleaning up their balance sheets.

Board member and hedge fund manager Gary Rabin took the CEO role and cleaned up the balance sheet, settling lawsuits and swearing off toxic debt.

Many of them have cleaned up their balance sheets.

At such a time, there would be an inclination to clean up the balance sheet, because no one would see the income statement effect from adjusting values closer to economic reality.

Institutions, funds and even private buyers have continued to accumulate capital over the past two years from both equity and debt sources as they restructured debt, cleaned up balance sheets and continued to raise funds from individual investors and stock offerings.

The government stepped in and propped up the banks by giving them essentially free money and extra time to clean up their balance sheets.

Companies are using the capital to clean up their balance sheet, improve their credit rating by paying down existing debt, or put that money back into the business to boost sales performance.

The activity not only illustrates ongoing investor interest in REITs, but also indicates that REITs are continuing to clean up their balance sheets and to look for capital to grow their businesses.

«Disposing of commercial and residential loans on behalf of financial institutions allows lenders to free up capital, clean up their balance sheets and ultimately reinvest this capital back into the local markets,» Managing Director Samuel P. Boyd states.

«Banks have made good progress in cleaning up their balance sheets,» says Thompson.

Over the past two years, REITs have been working diligently to clean up their balance sheets and, as a result, the industry's average debt to market capitalization ratio now stands at approximately 39.9 percent, in line with the historical average, according to Case.