Generalisation wont help. The question here is simple and plain.. Will GoK allow KQ to be liquidated/declared bankrupt

Why not? The government of the day is preaching performance. Is it exceptional with KQ!

The NSE is far from normal

I disagree. Investing is about growth of money.

Minimum return when investing should be the risk free rate which is now ~13.5%.

Any "investment" entered without an expectation of a gain or even worse with an expectation of loss of capital is not an investment. It is a gamble/speculation just like happens in a casino.

The dictionary seems to agree...


in·vest /inˈvest/

verb

expend money with the expectation of achieving a profit or material result by putting it into financial schemes, shares, or property, or by using it to develop a commercial venture.

SMH.. Clearly, you guys are lacking in content. Who mentioned that you expect a loss. The words wr, 'an aspect that must be considered'.. Shares rise, shares fall. Even Buffet himself takes massive knocks. Research a little, since the man himself has in 2015 lost over USD 2 billion in a deadly stocks slide and he is known to have said, ''unless you can watch your stock
holding decline by 50% without
becoming panic stricken, you should
not be in the stock market.”
1. WALMART: Buffet USD 390M loss
2. IBM: Buffet USD 500m loss
3. TESCO: Buffet USD 750m loss

Buffett has lost some. He has won more.
@sparkly - He did sell out the Tesco when he felt the Management wasn't cutting the mustard.

@Obiero - Has Buffett actually sold the IBM or Walmart shares? The articles did not seem to indicate he sold these shares so @sparkly is right that these are 'paper losses' ... On Tesco, he reported selling the shares, at a loss, in the Annual Report.

Warren Buffett Sells Goldman Sachs and
Walmart Shares By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NOVEMBER 16, 2015 Investors could well be asking whether
Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) made a rare error in judgment. Both Walmart (WMT) and American Express (AXP) sank to 52-week lows in recent sessions, at a time when the overall
market has recovered quite nicely from
its sharp selloffs of August and
September. Walmart On Oct. 14, shares of Walmart plummeted 10%, their biggest single-day drop in 25 years. Buffett had acquired a meager 0.5%
stake in Walmart at roughly $47 per
share way back in 2005. By 2009, his
holdings had doubled to nearly 39 million
shares and by 2014, his 2.1% stake in the
company was worth more than $5 billion. In 2015, he added another $800 million to
his portfolio at $75 per share. Walmart's shares were trading Thursday
morning at $57.31, not far above their
52-week low of $56.77. They have
declined 33% year to date and are
roughly at 7% less than Buffett's average
purchase price of $69.66 per share. As the 2008 credit crisis surfaced,
Walmart reinvested less and less of its
operating cash flows, with the rest being
accounted for by dividends and share
repurchases. In 2011, the payout ratio
increased to 80%, as the company returned $19 billion to its shareholders.
This lack of investment could now be
haunting the company. Berkshire Hathaway, owned by the billionaire Warren E. Buffett, sold some of its Goldman Sachs and Walmart shares during the third quarter, and made
several smaller changes to its stock
portfolio, according to a report filed on
Monday with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Mr. Buffett said on CNBC that
the main reason he reduced Berkshire’s Walmart and Goldman stakes was to
generate cash for his $32 billion
acquisition of Precision Castparts, which
is expected to close next year. Berkshire
sold 13 percent of its 12.6 million
Goldman shares and 7 percent of its 60.4 million Walmart shares.

Hehe. U practise selective reading?? Unanchesha kweli.. Argument sasa imesonga to why he sold? SMDH

How comments mutate or deviate from the topic of the day!!!