divest
Example Sentences
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In recent years, Canada has also strengthened investment laws to make it tougher for Chinese companies to buy mines and has forced some Chinese companies to divest from assets.
This isn’t to say that people should divest from the U.S., but rather, where are you going to allocate the marginal dollar?
From Barron's
Investors were also encouraged by the better-than-feared outcome of the antitrust ruling, which did not require Google to divest Chrome.
From MarketWatch
ESG proposals, by contrast, focus on such progressive political priorities as gender or racial preferences, climate change, or divesting from industries that are disfavored by the political left, such as fossil fuels, plastics or guns.
A different filing from Kugler said that her spouse “did not intend to violate any rules,” and that she immediately divested the assets as soon as possible when she became aware of them.
From MarketWatch
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