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Divestment

In finance and economics, divestment or divestiture is the reduction of some kind of asset for either financial goals or ethical objectives. A divestment is the opposite of an investment.

Divestment for financial goals

Often the term is used as a means to grow financially in which a company sells off a business unit in order to focus their resources on a market it judges to be more profitable, or promising. Sometimes, such an action can be a spin-off. (For the United States); Divestment of certain parts of a company can occur when required by the Federal Trade Commission before a merger with another firm is approved. A company can divest assets to wholly owned subsidiaries.

The largest, and likely most-famous, corporate divestiture in history was the 1984 U.S. Department of Justice-mandated breakup of the Bell System into AT&T and the seven Baby Bells.

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Divestment
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DARFUR ACCOUNTABILITY AND DIVESTMENT ACT:ADAM STERLING
Mar 20, 2007; Congressional Testimony 03-20-2007 Statement of Adam Sterling Director, Sudan Divestment Task Force Genocide Intervention Network...
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Q AND A ON NEW FEDERAL SUDAN DIVESTMENT LAW
Jan 01, 2008; On December 31, 2007, President Bush signed into law the "Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act of 2007" (SADA), RL. 110-174....
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DIVESTMENT FERVOR
Jun 08, 2007; MAY 31 ILLINOIS BILLS AIM AT IRAN AND SUDAN DIVESTMENT ILLINOIS METHODISTS CITE ISRAEL U. OF I AND NORTHWESTERN, BUT NOT U. OF...
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CHURCH DELEGATION OFFERS MIDEAST PEACE INVESTMENT PLAN EFFORT MEANT TO QUELL DIVESTMENT FROM ISRAEL
Jul 02, 2005; Seeking to head off a divestment movement that is gathering steam in mainline Protestant denominations, the Massachusetts...
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Presbyterian resolution sidesteps divestment; Synagogue, church initiated statement
Dec 22, 2005; A Bethesda Presbyterian church that shares its space with a synagogue has proposed what it calls a compromise on the Israeli...
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