With shrinking market share in the postpaid segment, Sprint needs capital infusion from Softbank to compete aggressively going forward.
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"We think it has growth potential but it needs capital - we want to build up the value of the enterprise through time, " he said.
Every start-up needs capital, but where do you go in Silicon Valley if you want capital plus expertise in building start-ups that make software for businesses?
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In simple terms, business needs capital to grow.
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But it still takes on some market risk, for which it needs some capital.
It also needs foreign capital and expertise to help its state-owned firms pull it off.
But Kobe, deep in debt, needs new capital to survive, and is now leaving the memory-chip business.
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Sharp needs the capital infusion to upgrade its plant and invest in new technologies to create cost savings.
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So, Amex needs less capital relative to its charge activity because fewer of the purchases turn into loans.
India is getting whacked by high oil prices and needs foreign capital to pay its obligations as it runs an account deficit.
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Such an approach can help use less water, eliminating the needs for capital-heavy investment such as desalination projects or long water pipelines.
But Chevron thinks Kirchner needs American capital and especially shale-drilling know-how badly enough that the terms of any investment it makes there will be secure.
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India needs outside capital, and expertise in manufacturing and infrastructure.
Central bank governor Rafael Buenaventura warns that while the Philippines needs foreign capital to boost industries like telecommunications and information technology, opposition demonstrations could raise "questions of political stability" in the minds of potential investors.
Nobody doubts the resource potential they all hold, but turning that into money needs major capital and technological skills, most of which sits with international oil companies rather than national entities farming out work to service companies on the cheap.
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Paul Miller of Friedman Billings Ramsey, an investment bank, says a government bad bank can pay more for assets than a private investor because its cost of funds is irrelevant, it needs no capital and can hold the assets to maturity.
The Saudi Government has less money and less need for landmark projects, some key industries - such as oil exploration and production - have been nationalised and the local workforce has developed to the point where the country needs foreign capital and expertise rather than foreign workers.
The pipe companies instead are benefiting from declining capital needs, improving free cash flow, attractive return of capital.
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If an entrepreneur wants to sell 40% of her business but the market dictates she needs to sell control to raise the capital she needs, she may be demotivated, and it may be an investment worth walking away from.
Regardless, the bank still needs to raise capital to "support this opportunistic deal, " he says.
Short-term capital needs--as in, assets likely to be expensed or converted to cash within one year.
This, at a time when GE Capital needs to hold on to its best customers.
But capital needs to be set aside more for unexpected losses than expected ones.
With its young population and high unemployment, Egypt desperately needs more venture capital.
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Banks and insurers remain animals with different risk profiles and dissimilar capital needs.
All three of these companies, as well as their capital needs, are interrelated.
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The company is planning a reorganization that includes the sale of some assets, but it also needs to raise capital.
The IMF's executive board emphasized that bank stress tests did not attempt to represent the full scope of capital needs.
With inventory averaging 35 days of sales and accounts payable averaging 45 days, the company has negative working capital needs.
Every startup needs access to capital, whether for funding product development, for initial rollout efforts, acquiring inventory, or paying that first employee.
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