But the IPO, which will probably be priced at mid-March, comes during a weak market.
They also tend to trade like a bond in a weak market environment or when company fundamentals are weak.
Nonetheless, a weak market for takeouts clearly will slow the repayment train.
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The maker and marketer of packaged food products sold worldwide is a traditional defensive holding and has shown resilience in a weak market.
In 2009, a weak market forced Toll to cut prices by 25% on three-bedroom units at its massive 450-unit Northside Piers in Brooklyn, N.
Also, for financial reasons, REITS might be forced to sell trees into a weak market to maintain the healthy payouts investors expect, cutting into future returns.
Coal revenues declined 10% on the back of a weak market and cheap natural gas prices, as shares in companies in the sector including Peabody energy have taken a beating.
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The second lesson is that works that seem to be repetitious actually contain important, subtle differences. (Take heed, all you buyers who think one Damien Hirst butterfly or spot painting is just like another.) A weak market just exacerbates these differences.
Making Home Affordable was based on the idea that only minor obstacles were preventing lenders and borrowers from arriving at a mutually beneficial arrangement a reduction in payments that would prevent a default and allow the bank to get a higher return from a property than it could expect from foreclosure and resale into a weak market.
And that type of rapid slowdown can be a just as strong a warning sign as a weak job market or a demographic shift.
This has indicated that fewer and fewer stocks were pushing the stock market to new highs and was a sign of a technically weak market.
Falling home prices and a weak housing market are one more element of deflation.
Groupon said it had been hit by an unfavourable exchange rate and a weak European market.
High foreclosure rates and a weak labor market, coupled with inherent real estate market weakness, will remain a drag on economic growth going forward.
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The U.S. presents a mixed picture with high unemployment rate and a weak housing market on one hand and growing consumer spending on the other.
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CSX, the large railroad transportation company, posted first quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday, beating profit and revenue estimates despite a weak coal market.
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In the past few years Mexico's improving economy, slowing population growth and a weak jobs market in the north have cut the flow of immigrants across the Rio Grande.
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Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said in a press conference yesterday that the U.S. economy is facing a hurdle with a weak housing market and still-high unemployment staving off growth.
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Americans are strapped for cash, as personal income flattened in June while gas prices rose, further tightening the grip many individuals and families feel from mortgage payments, credit card bills and a weak labor market.
Americans are borrowing more to pay for college while reducing other debt as a weak job market prompts more people to go to school and tuition keeps climbing, new Federal Reserve Bank of New York data show.
Despite continued high unemployment rates and a weak job market, more than half (56%) of employers who recruited new workers in the last year reported that a candidate rejected their job offer, according to research conducted by CareerBuilder.com.
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Throw in deregulation, which gives depositors other places to place their cash, and a weak share market, which eats away at banks' unrealised gains on their equity portfolios and thus at their capital, and it is clear that many banks are in dire straits.
The proliferation of Internet real estate sites makes it more feasible, but the reason Realtors have been demanding a bigger cut is that selling a house in this weak market takes a lot more work.
And at a time when a weak UK housing market is contributing to our economic malaise, a further tightening of credit conditions would be regarded as highly unwelcome by the Treasury - and it would go against the grain of government and Bank-of-England policy, in the form of their Funding for Lending scheme to provide more and cheaper loans to households and businesses.
Clearly, a very weak job market is the prime cause for this loss of hope.
There are many reasons for this, not least a structurally weak job market.
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Platinum group metals, meanwhile, are also burdened by a continuing weak labor market in the U.S. that means softer car sales, Lewis added.
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And overall you see that the run-up at consumer debt truly was much more explained in the last few years by a fairly weak labor market, very weak job growth, especially in manufacturing, where especially African-American men are disproportionally concentrated.
This created a glut of supply in a market already suffering from weak demand.
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