the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit
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money that is invested with an expectation of profit
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the commitment of something other than money (time, energy, or effort) to a project with the expectation of some worthwhile result
<noun.attribute> this job calls for the investment of some hard thinking he made an emotional investment in the work
outer layer or covering of an organ or part or organism
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the act of putting on robes or vestments
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the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank
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Investment \In*vest"ment\, n. 1. The act of investing, or the state of being invested.
2. That with which anyone is invested; a vestment.
Whose white investments figure innocence. --Shak.
3. (Mil.) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
The capitulation was signed by the commander of the fort within six days after its investments. --Marshall.
4. The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property; also, the amount of money invested, or that in which money is invested.
Before the investment could be made, a change of the market might render it ineligible. --A. Hamilton.
An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens. --Hawthorne.
It wants to develop Birmingham as a business centre on a European and world-wide basis. Mr Moore says: 'The West Midlands is attempting to revive economically by attracting new investment in industry.
To diversify the family's holdings and shield some of it from taxation, the investment company lately has plunged into U.S. commercial real estate.
The erosion of existing barriers to trade and investment in air services is likely to be accompanied by a major restructuring of the world airline industry.
"Our investment banker felt the price should be increased to enable it to render a fairness opinion," said James E. Buckman, Days Inns executive vice president and general counsel.
At the end of the two years, he says, an undiversified portfolio that held just one or the other investment would have a cumulative return of zero.
Private investment funds will be created to manage and invest the vouchers on behalf of the public.
But Ginnie Maes and other mortgage-backed securities were unchanged to slightly higher, bolstered by demand associated with two large new offerings of Remics, or real estate mortgage investment conduits.
"Maybe some of us were a little arrogant at times," conceded one Chase investment banker.
A spokesman for Affiliated said that Mason Hawkins, who heads the investment firm, "has in the past been supportive of management" and that he didn't know why Southeastern had changed its stance.
American businesses, worried about a recession, plan a barely perceptible 0.4 percent increase in spending to modernize in 1991, the most pessimistic outlook for business investment in five years.
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation yesterday announced its second investment in Chinese container ports in 10 days. The group is to take a controlling stake in the Yangtze river port of Zhangjiagang.
Mr. Kehler, a former Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. investment banker, charged his share of big fees to put together takeover deals in the 1980s.
But Charles I. Clough Jr., chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch & Co., said it might be too early to turn aggressive.
With the stock market open, analysts now are advising him of that morning's developments in stocks he already owns at the same time that investment bankers are trying to sell him more deals.
Orange County's loss on its investment portfolio now stands at Dollars 2.02bn, Mr Tom Hayes, the newly appointed chairman of the restructuring team said yesterday, Tony Jackson reports from New York.
Dickens's Hard Times is this year's choice, perhaps an appropriate title for an investment manager at the end of a deep recession.
There are signs that Fox Network's Dollars 1.6bn investment in American football rights is paying off, while the losses from his Asian satellite venture were a modest Dollars 20m.
As widely predicted, issuance in the real estate mortgage investment conduit sector remained strong.
Without such rules, the expense would be personal interest, for which the deduction is being phased out, unless it could be treated as investment or passive-activity interest.
In the latest quarter, investment gains of $22.1 million resulted in net income of $162.2 million, or $1.11 a share.
As business slows at Wesray, some of its younger investment bankers, who haven't made Simon-size fortunes yet, are jumping ship.
Indeed, Merrill Lynch Capital Markets and several other big investment firms suffered a shock from falling bond prices last April.
Steven Axelrod, another New York literary agent, is meeting next week with an investment newsletter writer who has proposed a guide to investing in the stock market.
Rafsanjani has been seeking to reestablish ties with the West and attract investment and technology to revive Iran's sluggish economy.
Tenneco said the two companies would share equally in an about $40 million initial investment for the venture and would be equal partners.
Direct foreign investment in the US rose from Dollars 83bn in 1980 to Dollars 403.7bn in 1990, according to the Commerce Department. The surge has slowed somewhat over the past two years as the takeover wave of the 1980s has died away.
It explains which trusts qualify for a Pep, describes their investment objectives, and gives performance tables and details of how self-select Peps work.
"If the project was so compelling, they wouldn't have had to hire investment bankers." Mr. Picchi also notes that Mobil, Chevron and Petro-Canada themselves don't have the wherewithal to pour more money into Hibernia.
The offering circular shows the company's annual profit at $19 million on sales of $100 million, according to investment bankers and consultants who are familiar with the information.
"The Age of Diminishing Expectations" is the first in a planned quarterly series of "briefing books" aimed at institutional buyers such as investment houses, law firms, banks and foreign embassies.