Saban and Arkin held that Bezeq stake for five years before selling in 2010, and Arkin made a small return on selling his 3% share of the company.
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Wallison acknowledged that taxpayers might actually reap a higher return by selling Fannie and Freddie to the private sector as going concerns.
The government could then monetize these high return investments by selling them to the private sector.
Gas was also an easy out for Mulva, allowing him to dodge what the gathered crowd of oil executives would have been more interested in hearing: a well articulated plan for ConocoPhillips to return to strength through selling off noncore assets (including Syncrude, some sadsack refineries and even a stake in Russia's Lukoil).
It runs a trade surplus, selling goods in return for financial claims on foreigners.
They realize that in return for the privilege of selling a medical product to the public industry bears a responsibility to ensure that all data concerning the risks and benefits of that product are available.
What Google gets in return is more real estate for selling ads.
The United States takes advantage of the dollar's position to borrow cheaply from the rest of the world, selling its assets in return for goods.
The Equus Total Return Fund ( EQS) literally is selling for 59 cents on the dollar.
Stuckey says they are selling because they plan to return to Georgia, where they are from.
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Given that one of REI's selling propositions is an extremely liberal return policy, these frills make sense.
On Friday, police arrested six people for allegedly running the influence-peddling ring selling government permits to businesses in return for bribes.
To regain its lost market share, Yahoo must be better than Google at attracting users and selling them advertising that generates a return on investment for the companies trying to reach those users.
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In general, firms selling technology that will earn a quick return, in fields such as energy efficiency, are proving most resilient.
Could banks have shown risk out of the front door by selling loans, only to let it return through the back door of prime broking?
But as friendly firms themselves face financial pressure, some are demanding a better return, or, desperate for cash, are selling some of their shareholdings to financial institutions.
The entire selling point of the annuity is a lower return in exchange for a guarantee.
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High-risk, high-return funds like most of those that New Jersey is selling interests in, control tens of billions of dollars of property world-wide.
Thus, when you are investing in stocks, a company selling at fair value may still generate plenty of return for you, but those returns will be constrained by earnings growth.
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Pressed to show a decent return for shareholders, giant oil companies that would never have dreamed of selling out in the past are putting themselves on the block.
However, in January, once the tax-selling and waiting period was over, my picks recovered significantly and showed a return of 12.9%.
That the costliest Lumia model is selling so well is a big positive for Nokia, which is looking to return its mobile device division to operating profit as soon as possible.
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Hedge fund managers are already believed to be selling out of positions to avoid a June crunch when they may have to return cash to investors, and some may be preparing to jump back into sectors that look oversold.
"This is a case of buying low and selling high, because the lower the price goes, the higher the implied expected return rises, " he said.
Another way of looking at China's current-account surplus with America is that in exchange for selling lots of cheap shoes and fridges to American consumers, China receives little by way of return except IOUs in the form of American Treasuries.
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