High valuations and the reluctance on the part of cash-rich corporations to dispose of assets have offset the wave of cheap money, leaving private-equity firms more willing to sell than to buy.
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Experts have also expressed concern at the way the news was handled, particularly during the current wave of uncertainty affecting world money markets.
In most cases they rode the deregulation wave and made a lot of money.
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So the city's education department is struggling to persuade the government that it still, 20 years after the main wave of immigration, needs extra money to pay for teaching children who speak little English.
Money will come from the second wave of government Pinch Point funding designed to solve local traffic problems.
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Lopez Research believes the second wave of cloud computing will help businesses save money while operating more efficiently.
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The sacking of Hansie Cronje as South African captain three years ago and his subsequent admissions that he accepted money from bookmakers sent a shock wave through the cricket world.
Molitor says she's seen a wave of families come to her to talk about money and the stress it's causing them.
Icahn thought he could ride the wave of hedge funds and raise a boatload of money which he could use for running larger and more frequent activist campaigns.
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The mobile money industry has also triggered a new wave of development, inspiring the creation of many secondary businesses, ranging from innovative financial services to the provision of utilities and digital goods.
Across the former euro area, there would be a wave of bankruptcies as firms suddenly found themselves either owed money in a depreciating currency or owing money in an appreciating one.
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Gerald Bailey, commissioner of Florida's Department of Law Enforcement, said the arrests are only the first wave of the investigation and the second wave will look at the "large sums" of money spent on lobbying and donations to political campaigns.
This relatively new wave of investing has created an entirely different landscape to managing money.
It is even possible that the first wave of stem cell backlash resulted in raised consciousness and new money in California and Massachusetts.
Can an investor make money owning the stock of a company that rides the wave of a fad without volatile exposure to market timing?
Introduced by TWA in 1961, the practice took off during the merger wave of the 1980s, when executives started pondering whether it was smarter to seek out merger opportunities to make money for shareholders or to hold on to their jobs.
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