Sentence examples for funds pushed from inspiring English sources

Last-minute buying by commodity funds pushed wheat prices higher.

Activist shareholders such as hedge funds pushed companies to pay out surplus cash.It is only in recessions that this enthusiasm for debt reveals its dangers.

Conventional wisdom in Washington holds that speculative money flooding into the market from index funds pushed up oil prices earlier this year.

Its breach of the spirit of Labour's election promise not to raise income tax was dishonourable but not surprising: over the past five years, Gordon Brown has ransacked our pension funds, pushed 700,000 workers into the top tax band and confiscated extra billions through duplicitous stealth taxes.

However, her lack of funds pushes "struggling" to a new extreme.

There are a number of factors behind sovereign funds' push to make direct investments.

That higher return, known as alpha, against the market return, or beta, is what proponents of hedge funds push.

Until recently it opposed a central authority with access to pooled funds, pushing instead for a network that would leave German money in German hands.

The worry is that beyond the possibility of foreign funds pushing up prices on bonds, stocks and real estate, they might exercise inappropriate control politically or in the private sphere.

The US hedge fund pushed for change at the top of Alliance Trust, one of Britain's oldest investment firms.

Its most famous victory was earlier this year, when the fund pushed ABN Amro, the Dutch banking giant, to sell itself.