Another, for a Roth conversion done in 2010, is to to reverse the transaction.

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Speaking loosely, investors use the term to describe public offerings (for cash) of the sub's shares, and they call the reverse transaction a spin-in.

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As an investor who likes the Facebook story, I would prefer Facebook to post another quarter in order to reverse its margin compression and to prove its ability to leverage the Instagram transaction into a revenue-generating mobile strategy.

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