Rising values of physical assets comes from more assets, or higher price tags on the assets, which means the economy is moving forward.
At DISH's option, Clearwire would also sell or lease up to an additional 2 MHz of Clearwire's spectrum to DISH from a channel that is adjacent to the Spectrum Assets at a price to be calculated in the same manner as the Spectrum Assets.
It would help if the banks can price assets that are generating income at their holding values, which is a lot higher than the price buyers in the open market would currently be willing to pay.
Perhaps the simplest and most elegant valuation model used to price assets is the dividend discount model (DDM).
By contrast most value investors use a present value approach to price assets.
These rules say they must value some assets at the price a third party would pay, not the price managers and regulators would like them to fetch.
There are some folks who very much want to hold these specific assets and will bid up the price of the remaining assets thereby lowering their interest rate.
The financial institutions with assets that they could not price can now maintain that the mere existence of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) means that there is a potential market for the securities that they could not sell previously.
The administration abandoned its plan when it appeared too complicated to price the assets.
Do they all react by liquidizing the same assets and crashing the price?
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Of particular concern to some is his attitude towards bubbles in the price of assets, such as securities and housing.
Options are the right to buy or sell these investment assets at a set price before a specified date in the future.
Two implications follow: there will be too much investment, and the price of assets that are in limited supply, such as land, will rise excessively.
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Failures re-price their assets (human and physical) and try other experiments but the whole process supports tens of millions of workers who gain experience and incomes.
But a bad bank faces different problems, the most serious of which is setting a price for assets that both it and the seller can agree on.
Also supporting the surge of new issuance is demand among investors for higher-yielding assets to protect against price declines that could be caused by potential interest-rate rises.
There was a viewpoint at that time that Sprint was planning to force Clearwire into bankruptcy and then reclaim its very valuable spectrum assets at a bargain price.
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Or he could change accounting rules, giving banks a time out from the relentless, capital-killing mark-to-market rules that require financial firms to price their assets in an environment where no one wants them.
Nor have investors grown any more confident about their ability to price the banks' toxic mortgage-backed assets: Merrill Lynch's cut-price sale of collateralised-debt obligations in July has had few imitators.
While it is unclear how much of its private equity assets Harvard managed to sell or at what price, it seems to have sold some assets when the market was at its weakest point.
When a currency drops, the nominal price of hard assets in that currency generally rises.
Small volumes yes, but vital assets as far as global price implications are concerned.
In practice, however, natural assets are often hard to price well or at all.
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Paulson's in for a battery of questions: How to price the bad assets the Treasury will take over?
One of the biggest difficulties in getting the program off the ground will be how to price the soured assets.
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"By the time we get to 2010 or 2011 the price of these assets should be higher, " said Mr Bethune.
In doing the split for potential suitors, Elliott will also be likely to command a premium price for the assets it may sell.
By creating a tax wedge between the bid and ask price of financial assets, the APT tax provides incentives to lengthen the average holding period of financial instruments.
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