91. Tyco can buy assets for Kozlowski, but if it does not have a business reason for buying them, he has to pay income tax. 92. What are usually called vulture funds buy assets on the cheap in troubled or bankrupt companies. 93. When Egghead.com declared bankruptcy recently, Amazon bought the assets. 94. When Japanese investors buy foreign assets, such as U.S. stocks and bonds, they need dollars to buy them. 95. When Patriot American decided not to proceed with a purchase, PaineWebber stepped in to buy the assets. 96. When foreign investors buy South African assets, they sell dollars and other hard currencies to get the rand to pay for them. 97. When they want to sell, potential buyers typically offer less than what is nominally full value because they are buying assets over which others exercise control. 98. Wine merchants say that when investors seek to buy assets in Romania, the government overvalues them. 99. With billions of dollars flowing into real estate, property prices are quickly rising and making it harder for REITs to buy assets on the cheap. 100. Asset injections refer to deals where Hong Kong-listed red chips buy assets from their well-connected mainland parents at less than market prices. |