When they do, will RIM have added anything to this core asset that will keep them a competitive step ahead?
Just when they had started to trust emerging markets as a core asset class, it seems to have let them down.
If data drilling is your game, then your core asset is trust.
His desire to dump NBC on Comcast made it clear that his entertainment division is not a core asset and the industrial giant is eager to get out of show business.
"Even so, the company remains committed to selective acquisitions, non-core asset sales where appropriate and an extensive project plan which currently numbers 30 in an effort to underpin future production across several energy sources, " he added.
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At a time when Nokia is conserving cash by suspending dividend payouts and leasing its headquarters instead of owning it, NSN is proving highly valuable with its steady cash flows despite not being a core asset.
Mr Bush's core political asset is his reputation for resolute leadership.
So long as the oil-fired band keeps playing, most Russian banks are cheerfully sticking to their core competences: asset shuffling, kickback lending, capital flight and money laundering.
The Fed Chair and his band of core believers appear committed to using asset prices to stimulate growth, investment and eventually, hiring.
Richard Repetto of Sandler O'Neill, an investment bank, says that the priority now should be getting back to core strengths of retail investing and asset accumulation.
Included are strong performance indicators such as dispositions (improving asset quality in disposition of non-core assets), modest ground-up development (providing accretive revenue), and strong capitalization (access to debt and equity).
More recently, online HR services provider Monster Worldwide (NYSE: MWW) also sold its China operations earlier this year as part of a global asset disposal to focus on fixing its core US operations.
However, the company is now realigning its asset base, revamping management and selling non-core assets.
It wouldn't be much better for Vivendi executives who have been candid about their disinterest in NBC Universal, an asset they've publicly dubbed "non-core"--and, perhaps more poignantly, their desire to off-load it to get "more headroom, " as Vivendi Chief Financial Office Philippe Capron put it at a conference in Spain last week.
This might be its last major asset sale as it been selling off its non-core divisions to focus more on its main business offering.
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As it stands the current policy of engaging in large asset purchases but then signaling that the Fed will keep core inflation below 2% seems to have a bit of the worst of both worlds.
As always host David Asman got to the question at the deep core of the issue: is our friendship with Israel more of an asset or of a liability to the U.S.? Is our alliance with them worth it?
At the core of CIC's investment strategy is a framework that currently consists of seven asset classes.
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