This was heavily oversubscribed but many investors sold soon after buying.
Such firms may have sold minority stakes to private investors, but they operate more or less like government ministries.
The economy minister says preference shares should never have been sold to retail savers but agrees that bank investors must bear some losses.
Ecompanies won't discuss Eparties' revenue figures, but no investors showed interest in backing it before the carcass was sold last summer to Etoys, which has since obliterated most traces of the site.
Unlike Apple, its margins will remain wafer thin, but the sheer quantity of goods sold should keep revenues flowing and investors happy.
But the advantages to taxpayers of having a bank that is well-capitalised enough to lend, but also well-run enough to be sold back to private investors one day, should not be underestimated.
In what was a positive spin on recent real estate news, the number of homes sold has increased in the area but buyers have been mostly investors looking to rent the homes they are buying at distressed prices.
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But since the city sold its metered parking to a group of private investors led by Morgan Stanley last year, the level of rage in the city over hikes in parking-meter rates and aggressive parking enforcement has gone way up.
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But there are billions in capital gains taxes due as a result of investors who sold stocks this past year end to avoid higher 2013 tax rates.
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Back at Kleiner, the biggest headaches probably don't come from the ones that have gone public, but from the green ventures that haven't yet been sold to other investors.
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But we can say that none of their CEOs racked up massive debts or sold investors on a plan they couldn't deliver.
Finally, some of these marketplaces are designed to facilitate the sale of not only secondary securities sold by existing shareholders such as venture investors, founders, angels and employees but also primary offerings where the proceeds of the sale are used by the issuing company to fund its operations.
But then when we sold the company in June of 2005, there were all these fat cat investors who were celebrating and pretending they were part of the team, and they shouldn't have been.
Like the balky human hearts its pacemakers regulate, results at Medtronic ( MDT) sometimes skip a beat, but the medical device giant is now so over-sold that it deserves a look by long term-minded investors.
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