Mr. Slim, a shrewd investor, deployed it well — buying up hundreds of Mexican companies and entering wireless markets across Latin America.
"There's a new crew of commodity market vigilantes out there as well, buying up hard assets in anticipation of how beaten up the dollar could get as a result of these moves by the Fed and Treasury," Mr. Kilduff said.
He said that the ECB could very well buy up commercial paper if it felt banks weren't lending enough, as well as government bonds if it felt the risk of deflation was growing dangerous.
This year, Uber continued to make strategic acquisitions as well, buying up artificial intelligence startup Geometric Intelligence, and self-driving truck startup Otto, in a quest to become a leader in autonomous vehicles and logistics.
Telecommunications Industry News is reporting that this buyout is giving rise to speculation that other regional mobile carriers could be bought up as well.
If well run, large slices of land bought up or leased by rich patrons may help preserve the area for future generations of locals.
He bought up half the state of Montana, and if he needed favors from politicians, he bought those as well.
She thumbed through the first pages, about Pavel Ryabushinsky's ancestors, merchants descended from the peasants of the Ryabushinsky community, old believers who'd launched a sackcloth business that had survived Moscow's fire of 1812 and left them well positioned to buy up looms and weaving mills.
These numbers don't mention Google, Facebook or Amazon but they might as well, because they are buying up servers.
Basically, they collect funds through complex financial means (using capital as well as debt) and buy up the big commercial centers and office buildings throughout the city.
The government's well-publicised efforts to buy up bad debts in the hobbled banking sector are proceeding too slowly, say some economists.
