capital
Example Sentences
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The goal was to boost capital markets activity, depressed after the global financial crisis, by making it easier for small, high-growth companies to raise capital through IPOs.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Now in her 80s, Lami Ezekiel remembers construction crews arriving in her ancestral home in Maitama, as it was destroyed to build Nigeria's capital, Abuja.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
As a number of U.S. private-equity investors have pulled back since 2022, sovereign-wealth funds in the Mideast became a more important source of capital for the industry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
This fiscal year the company will spend more than $100 billion on capital expenditures, largely on data centers to support the technology.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
To generate profits, Bear Stearns, like every other Wall Street firm, was perching more and more speculative bets on top of each dollar of its capital.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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