Sentence examples for write off equity from inspiring English sources

NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest wireless operator, said today that its profit fell in the six months ended Sept. 30 as growth in the country's cellphone market slowed and plunging stock prices forced the company to write off equity losses.

Writing off negative equity could cost as much as $600 billion.

Some partners have already left, and there is a risk that more will simply write off their equity rather than stay around for an uncertain future.

A peculiarity of Chinese tax laws also makes it appealing to the banks for the Ministry of Finance to write off the equity stake.

Having the Ministry of Finance write off its equity stake in the banks will make it easier to find room in the banks' ownership structure for four investors to join Central Huijin in preparation for the sale of stock, with the Ministry of Finance itself possibly reacquiring a stake in the banks at some point, bankers said.

It consisted of four principal steps: 1. Write down the troubled assets to realistic economic values and consequently write off book equity.

Citigroup maintains that it was legitimate to reject pleas to write off a debt for equity swap.

And because the Treasury and other regulators, unlike their euro-zone counterparts, chose to confront the rot in their financial system quickly, American banks have had to write off debts and raise equity faster than their peers.

"Even though the banks are making efforts to write off losses, the stagnant equity market means they'll continue to face hardship," said Hironari Nozaki, a banking analyst at HSBC Securities in Tokyo.

"After writing off the equity in a handful of distressed deals, our annual returns on both a 10-year and a 30-year basis are over 20 percent, on average," Rob Speyer said.

The commission, which on Monday released its nearly 200 page report Forward Through Ferguson: A Path Towards Racial Equity, can't easily be written off.