The LDP has survived as Japan's governing party thanks mainly to the financial and political support it enjoys from many of the private-sector companies whose bad debts now plague the banking sector.
Just as corrosive to investors' confidence has been the bad news from the banking sector.
This is not to say that the goal of getting more women into the top ranks of the private sector is a bad one.
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However, it is not all bad news for the green sector.
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If the government slashes its budget, it will send a bad signal to other private sector firms that might be asked to partner with the military they could see such partnerships as too financially risky.
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Now, some of that is unavoidable because they really do need to strengthen -- you know, the banking sector was in bad shape and it was over-leveraged and we really did need to take some steps to shore up the banking system.
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But there is no point forcing banks to recognize bad debts unless overleveraged private-sector balance sheets are restructured too.
Governments took over note issuance from commercial banks not because the private sector was doing a bad job, but because governments wanted the profits for themselves.
Analysts say the poor performance is partly due to bad news in the European airline sector which was hit by poor results at Swiss Air, whose shares fell 29%, and a strike threat by pilots at Lufthansa.
Slovenia's mostly state-owned banking sector is suffering from mounting bad debts and the government has struggled to borrow money.
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Audits commissioned by the Spanish government recently showed its banking sector -- beset by bad debt in the aftermath of the country's property market crash -- is likely to need 60 billion to 70 billion euros in extra cash to stay solvent.
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Now here's the bullish case for mall REITs: Take out Mills and the sector's earnings are not bad at all.
Like other public-sector workers, they got the bad news on March 10th that pensions were becoming less generous (see article).
The ministry is drafting legislation for performance-related pay, and to let it move bad teachers to different jobs in the public sector.
Resolving a systemic financial crisis requires recapitalising weak financial institutions and moving their bad loans from the private to the public sector.
But it is unlikely to allow a free float until it has reformed its banking sector, which is laden with bad loans (see article).
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The report said not knowing who will fall ill, when it will strike and how bad it will become, means the health sector is often inefficient and prone to corruption.
The bad news for prospective REIT shareholders is that the sector's shares have already been bid up.
Too bad he recently resigned to work in the private sector--although lucky for us, he'll still be working on public policy.
Bad timing ahead of tomorrow's planned public sector strikes over pension reforms.
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Lord Browne said the sector needed stronger government regulation to prevent any bad practice.
And most of the bad news has so far come from the volatile technology sector.
C. takes the firm into receivership, divesting it of its bad assets and returning its healthy assets to the private sector as quickly as possible.
But he said he was against one of the key issues the ICB is examining - that of splitting a bank's retail operations from its investment arm - saying that a lot of the banking sector's problems were caused by simple bad investment decisions.
That means the raw commodity sector could start to rebound even though some more bad economic news may be coming in the near term.
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While Madrid is right to call for a more aggressive cull of bad loans, its move to restore confidence in the banking sector has left it with little choice but to rescue Bankia.
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Others suggest that bad schools could be closed, or turned over to the private sector.
So May's disappointing jobs figures, showing that the private sector added just 41, 000 workers, was doubly bad news.
Like much of China's banking sector, the two have struggled under the weight of bad debts made to state-owned firms.
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