Sentence examples for dicey assets from inspiring English sources

What was a plan to buy dicey assets turned into a plan to invest directly in banks.

To wit: After the Enron scandal, the Financial Accounting Standards Board drafted rules intended to make companies confess to dicey assets held in separate entities that weren't consolidated on their balance sheets for all eyes to clearly see.

So to grease the wheels, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has essentially given Citi an insurance policy against outsize losses on the $312 billion of Wachovia's mortgage-related and other assets regarded as dicey.

Unsurprisingly, "Younger Than Jesus" has dicey aspects.

In practice, however, asset forfeiture has become a dicey business, largely because the rules are stacked in the government's favor.

But Chris Whitmore, of Deutsche Bank Securities, said it was clear that unless Kodak could generate significant cash from its patent portfolio, or sell some other assets, "their cash position becomes pretty dicey by the middle of next year".

As with other levered financial concoctions, that dicey strategy works only if the price of the underlying asset stays high.

As Jeff Mobley, his investor relations spokesman, explains: "If we lived within cash flow we'd miss the opportunity". As with other levered financial concoctions, that dicey strategy works only if the price of the underlying asset stays high.

Now some of them are likely to hold on to their distressed mortgage securities in the hope that the housing market recovers — rather than face the pain of selling the assets at a loss now (a situation that may get dicey if housing doesn't, in fact, recover).

I think it's dicey when people say they want to walk away from certain asset classes.

Companies normally leave a hard core of 10 or 20 men to safeguard the company's local assets, and when it's time for them to leave, the situation is usually dicey.