If the bank stayed in business the preferred had to trade up near its call price.
That would crystallise their negative equity, scuppering their plans to trade up or move on.
However, the persistence of debt will subsequently constrain homebuyers' ability to trade up in the market.
But a shrinking price differential between them has apparently induced some Bud drinkers to trade up to Corona.
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Brewers are betting that Africa's fast-growing middle class will want to trade up.
So, probably, millions of Motorola users, especially the younger ones, will eventually want to trade up to the real thing.
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This plugs the brand and nudges people to trade up, from homebrew to mass-produced beer and finally to premium brands.
This is a good time to buy a first home, to trade up, or to buy a property as an investment.
As incomes rise, Chinese consumers will trade up from bicycles to sedans.
The directionally higher spend in Computers and Electronics reflect consumer desires to trade up from computers to tablets and cell-phones to smartphones.
Johnnie Walker's market research suggests that, with a little push, many Africans will trade up, just as people in other emerging markets have.
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Fewer than 0.3% of students getting places used the system allowing those who surpass their expected exam results to "trade up" to another university.
In the New Asian Economy, both profits and fears are on the rise as markets open up, customers trade up and competitors toughen up.
In early September it was my prediction that the Dow Industrial Average would trade up towards my annual risky level at 11, 235 by Election Day.
With a 60" TV offering more than twice the screen viewing area of a 42" TV, now is the perfect time for consumers to trade up.
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Barbara Ryan at Deutsche Bank wrote that the results were "as good as could be expected at this time, " and that shares will trade up for now.
Within a few years 2 million of those motorcycle owners may trade up to buy the Tata car, figures McKinsey and Co. partner Ramesh Mangaleswaran in Mumbai.
Their monthly fees remain only a fraction of cellular-phone charges, though the upwardly mobile will probably trade up to a handset as soon as they can afford to.
It's no accident that to get from the campground to the clubhouse visitors who otherwise weren't looking to trade up must pass by a fleet of glistening 40-foot RVs.
This is the first Twitter stock we or anyone else has had in the past six months and like Facebook it will continue to trade up in price rapidly!
To clobber GM in this battle, Ford needs to create a car for consumers to trade up for in its Lincoln brand for when the economy recovers more, Whiston says.
Its sales may be enjoying a multi-year boost as emerging market smokers trade up from cheaper local competitors to premium Western cigarettes, but worldwide demand for their products is shrinking, and fast.
When interest payments comprised a higher proportion of earnings, as in the late 1980s, inflation swiftly eroded the burden of debt, which allowed house purchasers to trade up in the market after a few years.
You could argue that getting users into the iOS ecosystem is worth the possibility of damaging profit margins, even the actual level of profits, in the short term in order to benefit in later years as people trade up.
Home Depot does have some premium exclusives, such as John Deere riding mowers and Ralph Lauren paints, but Lowe's dedicates proportionately more sales training and floor space to show off the best in each category to get shoppers to trade up.
Android devices dominate the playing field now and it mentioned offereing new devices soon.. But it is also clear from the disappointing ATT results, that consumers of smart phones in the U.S. are not willing to trade up from devices that are doing the jobs they need done.
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If you'd rather trade up to an iPhone 4 rather than pocketing some cash and keeping the 3GS, you've got an option there, too: anyone who picked up a 3GS between May 7 and May 21 can preorder an iPhone 4 by June 21 and get the new phone for only the difference in cost, assuming you bring in your 3GS when you pick it up.
Bringing all European countries up to the level of English proficiency enjoyed by the Dutch could increase European trade by up to 70%.
Also, new jobs will be created by the economic opportunities that trade opens up.
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