illiquid
- adjective
- /ɪˈlɪkwɪd/
- Specialized
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ilíquido
- In short, South Korea was solvent but illiquid—that is, able to meet its obligations in the longer run but unable to do so immediately.
- illiquid asset
So far Ed is not like SVB and that is once the run on SVB started, it went from zero to illiquid or insolvent really fast.
- So far Ed is not like SVB and that is once the run on SVB started, it went from zero to illiquid or insolvent really fast.
- The challenge is the bills coming due before the income comes in the door, and this is being illiquid.
Examples
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If Italy and Spain are illiquid but solvent, and large-scale financing provides enough time for austerity and economic reforms to restore debt sustainability, competitiveness, and growth, the current strategy will work and the eurozone will survive.
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Then Alameda Research, his trading firm, secretly took that money to gamble on crypto tokens and made weird illiquid venture investments.
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What was technically an illiquid asset has been partially converted.
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So far Ed is not like SVB and that is once the run on SVB started, it went from zero to illiquid or insolvent really fast.
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First Republic so far Ed is not like SVB and that is once the run on SVB started, it went from zero to illiquid or insolvent really fast.
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Put simply, being house poor means your entire net worth (savings) and the vast majority of your cash flow are tied up in your house, rendering you illiquid and unable to respond to adverse life scenarios.
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In a more recent study, Ling, Naranjo, and Scheick (2013) examine the relation between investor sentiment and returns in relatively illiquid private markets.
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It may be solvent in that it can service that debt with future export earnings, but it remains temporarily illiquid because it lacks the funds to meet its immediate obligations.
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Depositors may also worry that the national central bank will help temporarily illiquid banks but not insolvent banks with liabilities exceeding the true value of their assets.
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During the financial crisis, many investors found themselves with illiquid assets that they couldn't sell quickly for cash.
Synonyms
Not a liquid or not easy to sell quickly for cash
Antonyms
How Solvent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word illiquid is made from the negative part il- meaning 'not' and liquid meaning 'flowing' or 'like water'. So a company that is illiquid does not have cash or things that 'flow' into cash quickly, and therefore cannot pay its bills easily.