Special vehicles sprayed detergent on the road and vacuumed it up again.
One option reportedly being considered is to sell assets to special vehicles jointly owned by private investors and the government, with the latter financing part of the sale to make the assets more attractive.
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Also:special country vehicles, primarily from Venezuela and Brazil, and some Russian debt, but not much.
Acquisitions can be effected through existing operating companies or special purpose vehicles (Article 3 par. 2).
Trades are made in cash instruments, futures, forwards, options, structures, special purpose vehicles, collateralized products and can be OTC or exchange based.
Instead they set up special purpose vehicles that raised money from investors.
Should the U.S. Consider the creation of Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) to represent the hundreds or thousands of investors in a deal as a single unit?
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Also, the use of investment platforms (special investment vehicles) to fund local governments steers funds to SOEs involved in development projects, thereby affecting the balance between state and market.
The Fed also allows the big banks to use the devices that Enron used to keep its skullduggery from the public view Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) with a new label, Variable Interest Entities (VIEs).
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The potential of an S-1 filing this October will surely also drive up interest in secondary transactions through sites such as SecondMarket and Sharespost, as well as special purpose vehicles targeting Facebook stock.
Similar to REITs as special investment vehicles created under the Regulated Investment Company (RIC) guidelines by Congress in 1980, the BDCs are required to pay out 90% of taxable income as dividends to shareholders.
In connection with investor redemptions it could not meet in 2008, Yorkville Advisors restructured its hedge fund operations, creating special purpose vehicles and giving redeeming investors the option of receiving securities in-kind or ownership in the SPVs.
These two were special purpose vehicles, a sort of independent holding company, that the New York Fed created to ring fence toxic residential mortgage backed securities and collaterized debt obligations in the heat of the crash.
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In connection with investor redemption requests it could not meet in 2008, Yorkville Advisors restructured its hedge fund operations, creating special purpose vehicles and giving redeeming investors the option of receiving securities in-kind or ownership in the SPVs.
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Yet after Enron's abuse of this structure, special-purpose vehicles have fallen into disrepute.
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Under the second scheme, the EFSF would create a set of special-purpose vehicles financed by other investors, including sovereign-wealth funds.
Special-purpose vehicles usually are formed to move assets off a company's balance sheet to help avoid some regulatory scrutiny and capital requirements.
In recent months several other financial institutions have formed similar special-purpose vehicles that invest in private companies' stock, piquing the SEC's interest.
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However, some observers say that the SEC may be tempted to conclude that the new breed of special-purpose vehicles being created by the likes of Goldman have been set up specifically to get around the 500-shareholder rule.
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Known as conduits, these special-purpose vehicles borrow in the short-term, commercial-paper market to make acquisitions of highly rated paper in American asset-backed securities, and have been walloped by the plunging value of those assets since the frailty of subprime loans were exposed.
Each convoy was led by a pickup truck loaded with supplies, followed in one case by Special Forces members on six all-terrain vehicles and in a separate case by Special Forces members on 25 ATVs, all heavily packed with equipment.
Some versions of the helicopter can carry up to 9, 000lbs of external equipment like all-terrain vehicles used by special forces.
Since being decommissioned in 1960 it has been used to tow vehicles and runs on special tours.
Both vehicles were manufactured with special keys that include a chip to prevent thieves from starting the vehicle without the key.
The commission says records showed 424 city and state judges and 1, 832 present and former town and village justices have special identifying license plates on private vehicles.
So long as natural gas prices remain low compared with petroleum and diesel, the cost savings on fuel can offset, and sometimes even outweigh, the added price premiums required for the special CNG and LNG-adapted vehicles.
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But it is loans made to Local Government Financing Vehicles (LGFVs), special companies set up to fund ambitious and often redundant infrastructure projects, that have attracted the greatest attention.
The vehicles looked like those used by the Iraqi special police.
Eventually, the networking of forces will enable all units to possess a common picture of the battle area reflecting inputs from dozens of sources, including unmanned aerial vehicles like Global Hawk, spy satellites, and Special Forces on the ground.
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