How to Use illiquid in a Sentence

illiquid

adjective

• What about that illiquid holding that makes up a third of the fund?
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2018
• The new rules set a one-time rate of 15.5% on cash and 8% on non-cash or illiquid assets.
  — Fortune, 11 May 2018
• The fact is that survivors tend to prefer cash over hard, illiquid assets.
  — Meredith Moore, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
• The Supreme Court's ruling in this case will likely set a precedent on whether illiquid assets can be taxed.
  — Laura Doan, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2023
• That annoyed investors, but helped ensure the funds are not forced to sell illiquid assets at fire-sale prices.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2019
• Many bank assets, by contrast, are illiquid and long-term, such as loans to firms and homebuyers.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
• The market for these tokens is still small and largely illiquid, but growing.
  — Paul Vigna, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022
• In recent years SWFs have piled into such illiquid assets (see chart 2).
  — The Economist, 23 May 2020
• When that happens, rates will rise too or the market might become illiquid and bond holders will lose money and can’t sell their debt.
  — Allison Schrager, Quartz, 18 July 2019
• The same cannot be said about the relatively illiquid Kazakh market.
  — Alexander Sazonov, Bloomberg.com, 23 Sep. 2020
• That could potentially cause some of its more illiquid, small-cap holdings to trade sharply lower.
  — Michael Wursthorn, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2021
• The trove of Sam Coins was largely illiquid, but that didn’t stop Alameda from taking out billions of dollars of loans against it, Ellison said.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
• Foreign cash and cash equivalents are subject to a higher one-time tax rate than illiquid assets are.
  — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 4 June 2018
• About half was tied up in illiquid investments such as local firms and factories.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• With a significant part of their portfolios in illiquid assets, some were forced to sell off those holdings at a loss in order to raise cash.
  — New York Times, 6 May 2021
• The credits are traded privately, and the market is highly illiquid.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2020
• Last month, the mainland broker said a hedge fund set up by a subsidiary had racked up a $139 million loss due to choppy and illiquid currency markets.
  — Mike Bird, WSJ, 17 Apr. 2019
• The bill increased the tax rate for businesses that want to bring back money from overseas to 8 percent for illiquid assets and 15.5% liquid assets.
  — Lauren Fox and Phil Mattingly, CNN, 15 Dec. 2017
• On the downside, BDC fees are very high compared with more conventional asset classes and many are illiquid.
  — Erin Arvedlund, Philly.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• Now the fall has gained momentum at a time of illiquid markets, so could have overshot, worsened by leveraged trades being closed out over the holidays.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2018
• Plus, real estate is an illiquid asset, which can become a burden if the owners are careless about managing the rest of their wealth.
  — Paige Hagy, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2023
• These micro-cap stocks are also very illiquid stocks that carry high transaction costs.
  — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
• One difference between Silicon Valley and other sectors, though, is that some of the wealth in tech is in illiquid startup stock.
  — Theodore Schleifer, Recode, 19 May 2018
• Most likely, illiquid assets will be able to pay the tax over an extended period, perhaps over seven or more years.
  — Eric Martel, Forbes, 7 June 2021
• Yet in reality, these investors have an illiquid investment that is hard to spin into gold.
  — Lauren Hirsch, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• In an election unlike any other, the hazards of relying too much on often illiquid betting markets were once again laid bare.
  — Brandon Kochkodin, Bloomberg.com, 7 Nov. 2020
• Bank loans are illiquid and slow to settle, while the ETFs that own them are immediately redeemable, a liquidity crisis in the making.
  — Daniel J. Arbess, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2018
• Due to the illiquid nature of these investments, access to them is reduced to qualifying investors.
  — Karl Rogers, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Another argument is that this will push people into illiquid, hard-to-value assets and out of the public markets.
  — Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 28 Feb. 2022
• Fractional shares are illiquid outside of Robinhood and are not transferable.
  — William Earl, Variety, 13 May 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024