Sentence examples for sell preferred from inspiring English sources

Whether operators can successfully sell preferred Internet access to big Web businesses remains to be seen.

Others, like UFJ Holdings, may try to sell preferred shares to raise capital.

Companies sell preferred stock when they seek more leverage but wish to avoid the fixed charges of debt.

But he expects strong interest in G.M.'s plan to sell preferred shares as well as its creation of a market for its common-stock shareholders — including the Treasury Department — to sell off their holdings.

Britain's plan also hinged on the willingness of several of the largest banks — Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays and HSBC Holdings, among them — to sell preferred shares to the government.

Abandoning a plan to sell preferred stock overseas to raise 1.1 trillion yen $9.4 billionn) in new equity capital, the bank sold the shares instead to Hitachi, Nippon Steel and other domestic companies in which it owns shares and to whom it lends.

CIT has said it may seek $2.5 billion by selling preferred shares to the Treasury's Capital Purchase Program.

Under the largest deal announced on Monday, Chesapeake reaped $1.25 billion from selling preferred shares of a new subsidiary, CHK Cleveland Tonkawa, which owns "unconventional liquids-rich" assets in Oklahoma.

Goldman Sachs and General Electric just sold preferred stock issues that yield their Berkshire Hathaway holders 10%.

Negatives: The fund relies on leverage, having sold preferred shares to pay for 32% of its holdings, and its expenses are a pricey 1.2%.

Freddie Mac, one of the big government-sponsored mortgage entities, is raising capital by cutting its dividend and selling preferred shares.