Sentence examples for chunk of assets from inspiring English sources

These instruments give investors a claim on a large chunk of assets, with only a small downpayment.

Financial markets had been moving money around based on expectations that central banks would end up buying a very large chunk of assets.

But beginning in the spring Federal Reserve officials made statements hinting that they would in fact end up buying a somewhat smaller chunk of assets.

In January, Goldman approached the New York Fed, offering to buy a chunk of assets from Maiden Lane II that had a face value of $7 billion.

Since his election in 1997, Mr. Jospin, who had campaigned with a pledge to end privatizations, has sold a further chunk of assets worth roughly $30 billion.

Though Berkshire Hathaway is an amalgam of insurance companies, like Geico and General Re, and dozens of other businesses including Ben Bridge Jeweler, Fruit of the Loom and See's Candies, it still invests a big chunk of assets in publicly traded stocks -- through a variety of its entities.

"As the Chancellor has said, if we want a more productive economy, then we should get the Government out of the business of owning great chunks of assets that should be in the private sector.

"The largest risk seems that, if this liquidity crisis continues and the banks keep funding large chunks of assets," a recent Citigroup report said, "the credit crunch will spread to corporates and the wider consumer sector".

In defending the agreement, SL Green CEO Marc Holliday Marc Holliday has dismissed that notion, saying that Rechler is paying an extremely rich price for the assets and noting that, a year ago, Hersh and Mack-Cali passed on the chance to buy a chunk of those assets, the EastRidge portfolio, at a lower price.

But JGBs still make up a big chunk of their assets (see chart).

Endesa and Belgium's Electrabel snapped up a big chunk of these assets.