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Examples of disinvest
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What good is it for investors to object, or disinvest, once the money is out the door?
From the businessweek.com
Students at Berkeley have recently decided their school should disinvest in companies that supply the Israeli war machine.
From the metro.co.uk
We can't disinvest and expect to grow, and we can't go broke no matter what we do since we are the currency monopolist.
From the forbes.com
As I mentioned in the November AGM statement it is the Group's intention to disinvest itself of its German payphone operation.
From the hemscott.com
The trademark was initially launched under Creative NZ in 2002 but was transferred to TIKI after Creative NZ made a decision to disinvest in it in 2009.
From the nznewsuk.co.uk
Sir Jonathan replied graciously, thanking the archbishop for his promise that the synod had stopped short of a formal decision to disinvest.
From the economist.com
The trademark was initially launched under Creative NZ in 2002 but has been transferred to TIKI after Creative NZ made a decision to disinvest in it in 2009.
From the nznewsuk.co.uk
Indeed, it would appear that California, at some point in the past generation, must have decided to disinvest in its children and to reallocate resources to such things as prisons.
From the economist.com
At the time, the region was heavily invested in money-losing local industries, everything from textiles to pastries to petroleum, and it was seeking to disinvest.
From the businessweek.com
- Divest: deprive of status or authority; "he was divested of his rights and his title"; "They disinvested themselves of their rights"
- Divest: reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment); "The company decided to divest"; "the board of trustees divested $20 million in real estate property"; "There was pressure on the university to disinvest in South Africa"
- Strip: remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments"
- (disinvestment) the withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation
- In finance and economics, divestment or divestiture is the reduction of some kind of asset for either financial or ethical objectives or sale of an existing business by a firm. A divestment is the opposite of an investment.
- Disinvestment, sometimes referred to as divestment, refers to the use of a concerted economic boycott, with specific emphasis on liquidating stock, to pressure a government, industry, or company towards a change in policy, or in the case of governments, even regime change. ...
- (disinvestment) the process of disinvesting; negative investment
- (Disinvestment) The process of dilution of the government's stake in Public Sector Undertakings.
- (Disinvestment) Opposite of capital budgeting decisions, because they concern whether to terminate rather than start an operation. In general, if the marginal cost of a project is greater than the marginal revenue, the firm should disinvest.
