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
  • 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.
    Stephanie Tsai, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Apr. 2024
  • There would need to be rules on how the value of illiquid assets — art, for example — should be calculated, and how to handle enforcement and any exceptions.
    New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021

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