operators tariff and payment problems with accumulated debt to vendors ; large debts were restructured and foreign investors lost out.

Also, Taiwanese investors lost their claim to the Japanese bond certificates they possessed.

Rossetto and Metcalfe lost control of Wired Ventures to financial investors Providence Equity Partners in May 1998, who quickly sold off the company in pieces.

The first attempt failed and the investors lost their money.

Jay Cooke lost the company in the Panic of 1873, but bought back a major portion of it four years later with a group of investors as the South Mountain Mining and Iron Company.

With this announcement for a lot of these investors their investment dramatically lost value.

The amount of lost investment in Ajman real estate and the consequences on people's lives all over the world can be seen on several websites, which were set up by desperate investors:

The British lost most of their money — as did eastern investors like Theodore Roosevelt, but their investments did create a large industry that continues to cycle through boom and bust periods.

In addition, the media and entertainment industry during the 1980s glamorized the stock market and financial sector ( e. g. the 1987 movie Wall Street ), causing many young people to pursue careers as brokers, investors, or bankers instead of manufacturing and making it unlikely that any of the lost industrial base would be restored any time soon.

Copperfield was not an investor in the project ; the investors reportedly lost $ 34 million on the project, and subcontractors placed $ 15 million in liens.

Constantine and Woodall also became the co-founders of Ready2shop. com, a dot-com, but the business venture failed, and investors subsequently lost a reputed £ 10 million.

The business dissolved in July 2001 and lost its investors a reputed £ 10 million.

The purpose of the income statement is to show managers and investors whether the company made or lost money during the period being reported.

In July 2009, a senior Central Bank official told the Oireachtas Enterprise Committee that shareholders ( later corrected / clarified to refer to institutional investors ) who lost their money in the banking collapse were to blame for their fate and got what was coming to them for not keeping bank chiefs in check.

Five years elapsed before they forced Davy Stockbrokers to inform investors, who lost tens of millions of Euro, that ‘‘ the instrument sold was not compliant with the Trustees ( Authorised Investments ) Order at the time of its sale as it was not listed on a recognised Stock Exchange ’’ and it " dealt as principal in both the purchase and sale and was in breach of the rules of the Irish Stock Exchange by not disclosing this fact on its contract note ’’.

Hundreds of thousands of investors lost their money and would never recover it.

Savers also face significant risk as individual investors, since if they lend to a single firm or individual, that entity can collapse, with the savers having lost the money they lent.

By 2009 the entire CDO was almost worthless and the investors ( including Deutsche Bank itself ) had lost most of their money.

Some 23, 000 Lincoln bondholders were defrauded and many elderly investors lost their life savings.

The operations of the investor compensation fund which aimed to compensate investors who had lost money to defunct stock brokers such as Nyaga Stock Brokers and Discount Securities Limited were launched under his watch.

Some financial advisers and stamp dealers have doubted the wisdom of investing in stamps due to the relatively high prices charged by Stanley Gibbons compared to other dealers and the experience of the 1970s when many investors lost out after a speculative bubble in stamps burst.

The Flamingo started making a small profit, but the Mafia investors had finally lost patience with Siegel.

Frankel moved to Florida in 1987, and attracted Palm Beach investors, but the Frankel Fund lost money on trades, and Frankel was using shareholder accounts to paying expenses, including rent, stock-quote services, and personal spending money for himself, his sister, and his mother.

The founders ' families who controlled a significant amount of HP shares were further irked because Fiorina had made no attempt to reach out to them and consult about the merger, instead they received the standard roadshow presentation as other investors.

The decision was made public shortly before Medawar took responsibility in a United States District Court for bilking $ 3. 4 million from about 50 investors.

The hedge fund's prospectus, also known as an offering memorandum, offers potential investors information about key aspects of the fund, including the fund's investment strategy, investment type, and leverage limit.

Historically, hedge funds have been exempted from certain registration and reporting requirements that apply to other investment companies, because in most jurisdictions regulation permits investments in hedge funds by only " qualified " investors who are able to make an informed decision about investment decisions without relying on regulatory oversight.

Registered advisers must provide information about their business practices and disciplinary history to the SEC and investors.

While " legal " insider trading cannot be based on material non-public information, some investors believe corporate insiders nonetheless may have better insights into the health of a corporation ( broadly speaking ) and that their trades otherwise convey important information ( e. g., about the pending retirement of an important officer selling shares, greater commitment to the corporation by officers purchasing shares, etc.

Although both film professionals and investors were willing to support her work, most of the projects she attempted were stopped owing to ever-renewed and highly negative publicity about her past work for the Third Reich.

Critics argue that about half the aid was a gift from the American taxpayer to American businesses, as $ 400 million consisted of incentives for U. S. business to export products to Panama, $ 150 million was to pay off bank loans and $ 65 million went to private sector loans and guarantees to U. S. investors.

The aim of public relations by a company often is to persuade the public, investors, partners, employees, and other stakeholders to maintain a certain point of view about it, its leadership, products, or of political decisions.

There is a view termed the halfway rule according to which investors start discounting an economic recovery about halfway through a recession.

It issued stock four times in 1720 that reached about 8, 000 investors.

Then Durant wound up taking the stock from the investors and was to end up controlling about half the stock of the railroad.

Moody's cited concern to investors about the city's latest gambit to postpone repayment of interest and principal on some construction bonds until at least 2018, resulting in much larger payments over the long run.

But concerns about the financial crisis in Asia and the slump in world oil prices were already prompting investors to withdraw from Russia.

Although the satellites and other assets and technology behind Iridium were estimated to have cost on the order of US $ 6 billion, the investors bought the firm for about US $ 25 million.

) The law requires that issuing companies register distributions of securities with the SEC prior to interstate sales of these securities, so that investors may have access to basic financial information about issuing companies and risks involved in investing in the securities in question.

The September 11 attacks also contributed heavily to the stock market downturn, as investors became unsure about the prospect of terrorism affecting the United States economy.

The first two of these totalling £ 2. 75 million from about 200 large investors had already been arranged before the company's charter was issued on 10 September 1711.

Negative reviewers noted the bad taste and insensitivity of devising a broad comedy about two Jews conspiring to cheat theatrical investors by devising a designed-to-fail singing, dancing, tasteless Broadway musical show about Hitler, 23 years after the end of World War II.

He was one of the first investors with Roy Scott in Holiday Inn, a new motel chain that was about to go national ; he became involved with the chain shortly after selling the rights to Elvis Presley to RCA for $ 35, 000 which he multiplied many times over the years with Holiday Inn.