1.  The company must raise the necessary funds by next week if it is to avoid going into default.

2.  One of the attractions of a listing is that the listed company can raise fresh capital or finance acquisitions using its paper.

3.  A rights issue is a means by which a company raises capital by offering new shares to existing shareholders at a fixed price.

4.  They said the county might have to subsidise less popular bus routes or companies would raise fares to provide the cash to buy new buses.

5.  Profitable companies will be valued highly, and this should be reflected in the share price, and in the terms on which the company can raise funds.

6.  He said the recession could even encourage MBOs as large companies raise cash by disposing of subsidiary organisations.

7.  American companies raised dividends at a rapid rate last year, but the increases did not come quickly enough to keep up with share prices.

8.  Analysts expressed doubt that either company could raise enough money to buy the other, and questioned how a proposed transaction could be structured.

9.  Analysts said that although the company has again raised the issue, a spinoff in the near future is unlikely.