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Multinational firms dumping Venezuela operations in fire sales
Reuters ^ | 15 November 2016 | Corina Pons and Eyanir Chinea

Posted on 11/16/2016 10:50:28 AM PST by Lorianne

Multinational companies are selling their Venezuelan operations at hefty discounts - or even giving them away - as they to seek to escape the OPEC nation's soaring inflation and chronic supply shortages.

Six firms, including General Mills and oil producer Harvest Natural Resources, have sold operations for as little as half their assessed value on the companies' books, according to securities filings and interviews with a dozen people knowledgeable about the deals.

One company, U.S. autoparts-maker Dana, last year sold its debt-laden Venezuela operations to a local buyer for no cash compensation. Two multinational corporations - Clorox and Kimberly-Clark - chose instead to abandon their operations here.

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I thought they would have bailed long before now.
1 posted on 11/16/2016 10:50:28 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

That is just saving time and money before they are nationalized and made into forced labor camps.


2 posted on 11/16/2016 10:51:50 AM PST by Mr. K (Trump is running against EVERYONE. The Democrats, The Media, and the establishment GOP)
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To: Lorianne

The time to buy is when blood is running in the streets.


3 posted on 11/16/2016 10:52:04 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Lorianne

Ain’t socialism grand?

Meanwhile Chavez’s daughter sits on top of 4 Bn while living in New York


4 posted on 11/16/2016 10:52:48 AM PST by panzerkamphwageneinz
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5 posted on 11/16/2016 10:56:25 AM PST by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: Lorianne
Good.

Now bring those jobs back here where they belong.

6 posted on 11/16/2016 11:01:25 AM PST by thescourged1
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To: Lorianne

isn’t communism just grand?


7 posted on 11/16/2016 11:05:18 AM PST by drypowder
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To: panzerkamphwageneinz
Meanwhile Chavez’s daughter sits on top of 4 Bn while living in New York

Ain't socialism a hoot?

8 posted on 11/16/2016 11:05:40 AM PST by Steely Tom ([VOTE FRAUD] == [CIVIL WAR])
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To: Lorianne

9 posted on 11/16/2016 11:06:48 AM PST by HangUpNow
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(General Mills)

Gee, isn't General Mills one of those gay-coercive corporations? Why are they haters and intolerant of the poor Venezuelan people?

10 posted on 11/16/2016 11:09:21 AM PST by HangUpNow
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To: Lorianne

Atlas is shrugging.


11 posted on 11/16/2016 11:19:48 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg)
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To: Lorianne

Another international basket case owes its demise to Marxism - precisely the sort of Marxism the Left wants for the US.


12 posted on 11/16/2016 11:52:27 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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