Certainly, financial assets in general are over-priced, especially those, such as shares in technology companies, that are seen as a source of future growth and profits.
Yet, gold also has had days lately when it rose on optimism about a fiscal-cliff resolution, riding the coattails of other risk assets in general, particularly the euro.
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"It seems to me that we ought to have the same ability to give away our earnings as we have to give away our assets in general, " Sir Peter said.
The sectors, which have fared well for much of this year as investors flocked to high-dividend-paying shares, sagged Tuesday amid the rise in Treasury yields and the general rush to riskier assets.
The factor builder returns the answer that trend-following has not been particularly efficient when cross applied to FX assets in general (though you can data mine to make it look good as most technical analysis books do).
These partnerships shelter all manner of assets--stock, real estate, cash--with the parents usually remaining in control as general partners while giving the kids assets in the form of limited partnership units.
In contrast, General Electric is selling down assets and paring its expansive operations.
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One suggestion is that sanctions might be tightened and an attempt made to freeze some of the personal assets of the general and his men.
From " Bailout: An Inside Account of how Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street, " by Neil Barofsky, former special inspector general to oversee the Troubled Assets Relief Program: Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke "confided that he believed that Goldman Sachs would have been the next to go" after Morgan Stanley.
During bull markets, the general public invariably gets enamoured with assets whose prices are rising.
On the U.S. side of the border, more funding will support "prosecutor-led, intelligence-based task forces" that bring together the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies to dismantle drug cartels through investigation and extradition and the seizure and forfeiture of assets, Deputy Attorney General David Ogden said.
The subsidiary does not recognize gain on the distribution of any appreciated assets to the parent, which is an exception to the general rule of Section 311(b) that treats a corporate distribution of appreciated assets as a sale.
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General Motors, now loaded with liquid assets, sells at 3 times enterprise value with a junk credit rating.
Depending on whether investors buy the soccer clubs as well as the land on which the clubs' assets are sited, the General Presidency of Youth Welfare could raise more than 5 billion Saudi riyals, according to the same member of the committee.
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American Funds in general are suffering from a massive outflow of assets.
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The general impression conveyed is that henceforth future foreign assets must have the pedigree of Mother Teresa or Saint Francis of Assisi.
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For investors in the stock market, it is a general rule to assume that long-term assets should not be needed in the three- to five-year range.
Assets:Chairman of Daily Mail and General Trust, of which the viscount and son own 54%.
The donor contributes assets to a partnership, becoming the general partner and keeping at least 1% of the limited partnership shares.
The typical private equity fund is a partnership in which limited partners pay the general partners a fee of 2% of the assets under management along with 20% of the investment profits they make dubbed carry.
In general the law is biased toward allowing people to leave assets as they wish even if the wish seems silly.
The recent annual report for Enterprise GP Holdings states that Duncan had the sole power to appoint and replace directors and officers of these companies, and the report takes pains to assert that Duncan oversaw a thicket of potential conflicts of interest between the general partner, limited partners and other investors in these assets.
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Later, General Augusto Pinochet's government excluded the Luksics from repurchasing the assets because Andrnico Sr. was considered "tainted" by his dealings with the Allende regime.
Xoom said it plans to use proceeds generated from the IPO for general corporate purposes and for acquisitions of complementary businesses, technologies or other assets.
The government took a 60% equity stake in General Motors, and as part of the deal GM began selling off assets, closing facilities, making itself smaller.
R.5: The element is included in the General Inventory of Valencian Cultural Heritage as well as in the Register of Assets of Cultural Interest maintained by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
Asked on Wednesday if he had the backing of the attorney general - the government's chief law officer - for unfreezing Libyan assets, Mr Hague said the government "based on any legal considerations as well as political considerations are united in this position".
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"We have a fantastic set of brands and assets, " asserts Thomas Park, the Sydney-based executive general manager of Southcorp Wines.
The larger company will own most of General Growth's malls, and the smaller one will hold its riskier assets such as residential developments.
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Au set up a general ledger for PLP to categorize and account for all transactions affecting the partnership assets and Capital accounts 10 as well as ledger income beginning in 1999. accounts were established for each partner to show distributions to each partner, income received by the partnership, and expenses incurred by the partnership.
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