Sentences with phrase «zombie companies»

«It doesn't sound like a great idea to save zombie companies with zombie banks,» saidLarry Hu, China economist at Macquarie Securities, a Sydney - based investment bank.

Yahoo has spent hundreds of millions of dollars buying zombie companies in order to hire programmers

Why should we shun a bargain, just because our trading partner is imposing barriers to our exports and saddling its own citizens with higher costs and more protected zombie companies?

As a result Japan was littered with «zombie companies,» operations that are near insolvency, yet continue to survive.

It will always be uncomfortable to watch hopes, dreams and hard work end up in failure, but the alternative is even worse: tax - payer support of European & (especially) Japanese banks that «extend & pretend» with years, decades of bad loans to zombie companies, and no capital to lend to new, vibrant companies.

Modi has announced a plan to recapitalize the banks to deal with the problem of large non-performing loans, but I am wary that this is similar to China's propping up of «zombie companies» after the collapse in metal companies in 2011.

That includes everything from too many «zombie companies» kept alive by round after round of stimulus measures to the growing clout of the Internet, which, thanks to network effects, tends to favour the creation of monopoly firms that may have little incentive to operate efficiently.

Some of the most widely held Index funds are loaded with zombie companies.