fire sale

Everything from boxes of pencils to an aircraft carrier is to be cleared out in an emergency fire sale.

But selling such operations at more than fire-sale prices might be tough at a time when they're showing elevated credit losses.

So the company did what you do in such a situation. It announced a fire sale.

The most stressed developers would be forced into a fire sale of inventory, sharply lowering prices to attract buyers.

Activity in the secondary markets for securitised products dried up as well, as investors stopped trading except if forced into a fire-sale.

There are now fears that Dubai might be forced into a fire sale of assets, which would push asset values down further.

While others struggled with the fire sale on Wall Street, we were making serious money and I lived the lifestyle to prove it.

Due to store too much and would like a part of the external rent, suitable for stock virtual fire sale, or sell seasonal things.

A low fire-sale price might be good for the Treasury but could have detrimental effects on the banks selling the assets.

Across the Pacific, waste traders in the United States are shutting mills, cutting production and selling their stock at fire-sale prices.

According to one of Europe's most senior bankers, there will be "an unending fire-sale of non-core assets" over the next 18 months.

Over-the-counter instruments tend to be illiquid, so their prices fall especially hard under the pressure of a fire sale.

By not selling some assets at fire-sale prices, the estate will be able to recoup much more money for creditors, notes Mr. Marsal.

In 1907, some of his critics charged that he had started the panic in order to scoop up assets at fire-sale prices and line his own pockets.

The fire sale of Bear Stearns, the US investment bank, brings the credit crisis to a new, more dangerous phase.

The pledged securities behind those loans could be dumped in a fire sale, deepening the plunge in securities prices.

The opposition has accused Mr Obasanjo of a "fire sale" before he leaves.

Bernanke suggested that an auction mechanism would also keep the price near a fundamental value instead of a lower 'fire-sale' price.

Existing investors in American debt, such as China, have no incentive to drive down its value with a fire sale of their holdings.

Yet just two years ago, Ms Wu was fending off creditors and being pressed to sell her business at a fire sale price.

This fire sale was not enough for one creditor, Merrill Lynch, which seized collateral and threatened to auction it off to cover its losses.

If the government withdrew its endorsement and Salomon lost its funding, it would have to liquidate assets at fire-sale prices.

Clearly, much depends on the price Lehman can get for its troubled assets in a fire sale.

Suspending accounting rules that peg assets at their market value has its attractions, because fire sale prices are probably too low.

Ireland, Greece and Portugal, in particular, are offering what amount to fire-sale prices as hotels and tour operators slash rates.

KDB had hoped to make itself a Wall Street powerhouse by buying a leading investment bank at a fire-sale price .

Attempts to sell the instruments ran into trouble because few traders offered anything except very low, fire-sale prices.

In the initial months after the bail-out, a fire sale ensued.

Congress should also determine if the proposed federal purchases of bad mortgages will come at fire-sale prices.

One or two long-awaited disposals could go through, and some European investors are showing interest, hoping for fire-sale prices.

The new fire-sale buyers are the so-called sovereign wealth funds, and China's are the most prominent.

Then dump your TouchPad in a $99 fire sale and announce you're just not going to offer it anymore.

Greece will benefit far more from a well-designed privatisation scheme than a fire-sale to raise cash.

It's too early to say just what the Great HP Fire Sale of 2011 really means.

If this sparked a fire sale of dollar assets, contagion could spread to US banks.

' Happily, a few more of us will be answering 'yes' after this morning's surprise fire sale of FA cast-offs.

This is the fire sale of a continent lurching from the farm to the factory.

Chrysler's sales surge has not required fire sale prices.

That was probably helped along by fire-sale deals, which might weigh more heavily in consumers' minds than the taint of bankruptcy.

Howell picked up whatever furniture he needed at a Bronx fire sale.

Rio can't afford to walk away from Chinalco only to find metal prices slump again and it needs to sell assets at fire-sale prices.

There is never a fire sale at a brothel, and if you ask again I'll tell my ladies to charge double.

Howell left his fire-sale furniture for the super.

If they haven't noticed, everyone thinks there's a fire sale going on.

The best argument in Mr Brown's favour is that a forced fire sale would be even worse.

The best argument in Mr. Brown's favor is that a forced fire sale would be even worse.

The biggest fear in the market is that banks will foreclose on borrowers and start a fire-sale.

Prices are also higher because last year AIG "was under pressure to make a fire sale" to repay the US government, the person added.

When markets fall this leverage works the other way, as could be seen when investors offloaded assets at fire-sale prices last year.

The rub: No tablet maker can make money at HP's fire sale prices.

Must have missed the signs that said it was a fire sale