Word: shakeout
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...variety of factors are speeding a shakeout. They include falling oil prices and Russia's war with Georgia, which spooked foreign investors and sparked capital flight. Of course, the tumult on Wall Street and the general seizing up of global finance has caused a liquidity squeeze for banks worldwide. But the root cause of Russia's current crisis is homegrown: wannabe oligarchs who used debt to continue doubling down while the going was good, only to find themselves on shaky ground now that the market has turned. As one wag said this month, it's a case of minigarchs turning...
...take him many more hours - he planned to close out his investment. "There's nothing like cash in your hands," he said. It seems the expression "like money in the bank" has fallen out of favor with a public that is weighing what they stand to lose as the shakeout of financial-industry titans continues. - by Neel Chowdhury
...even be beneficial for the country in the long term, because it would weed out inefficient operators and boost China's productivity. A period of "creative destruction" is an inevitable part of any business cycle. China's economic policymakers can only hope that the creative aspects of the coming shakeout outweigh the destruction...
...even be beneficial for the country in the long term, because it would weed out inefficient operators and boost China's productivity. A period of "creative destruction" is an inevitable part of any business cycle. China's economic policymakers can only hope that the creative aspects of the coming shakeout outweigh the destruction...
...Throw in the fact that disappointed investors will likely migrate to those funds that did well during the recent bout of volatility and you have a shakeout scenario. Huw Van Steenis, an asset-management analyst with Morgan Stanley, told a forum of European hedge-fund managers in October that a "super-league" of funds is slowly taking control of the industry. In 2006, 67% of all assets under management were controlled by this élite group of the top 100 funds, compared with 49% in 2003. "We think there's going to be a Darwinian process, a sorting...