Sales in London last week generated a fresh round of head-spinning prices: a Freud for £11.8m and a Jeff Koons sculpture for £13m.
Both elements carry risk, though: Those top labels were acquired at head-spinning prices, and the tempting of youthful customers invites the outcry that entry-level products are a ticket to alcoholism and other unhappy consequences.
Both elements carry risk, though: Those top labels have commanded some head-spinning prices to acquire, and the tempting of youthful customers invites an outcry that entry-level products are a ticket to alcoholism and other unhappy consequences.
By this point, however, they had selectively eliminated all genres of music, and the DJ was just spinning their price list of cocktails and their annual financial statements.
It said up to 800 more wells might be drilled in the region, creating 5,600 jobs and promising a repeat of the "shale gas revolution" that swept the US, sending local energy prices spinning downwards.
In September, the FL Group, an investment firm based in Iceland that holds about a 9percentt stake in AMR, asked American to consider moves to bolster its share price, including spinning off its frequent-flier plan.
On 3 March 2011, when the culture secretary publicly announced he was "minded" to approve News Corp's takeover of BSkyB at the price of spinning off Sky News, Murdoch dropped him a text message at 6.33pm to say: "Big few days.
By Walter Hewlett's estimation, HP can add $14 to $17 to its share price by spinning off its crown jewel, the printing and imaging business.
He had pressed Oshkosh to take steps that he argued would have improved its stock price, including by spinning off JLG, a maker of construction equipment.
With private-equity firms unable to raise debt, and strategic buyers not exactly flush with cash, getting a good price for bits of GE's industrial portfolio would be hard and selling chunks of GE Capital in today's market could happen only at distressed prices.What about spinning off GE Capital as a separate public company?
In Micron's case, the company's stock price could turn around rather quickly, says analyst Dan Scovel of New York-based Neednam and Co. "Micron's stock price can spin on a dime based on market prices," Scovel says.
