The SIMpad, the size of a sheet of A4 paper and weighing 1.1 kilograms, offers full Internet access over a cordless DECT connection, Siemens said.
Its storage potential is enormous: Dr Sheats says that initially, a single layer of memory the size of a sheet of writing paper will be able to store one billion bytes (a gigabyte) of data.
Given the size of Dexia, with a 500bn euro plus balance sheet - comparable in size to all Greek banks put together - eurozone governments viewed its rescue as vital to avoid more market turmoil.
Nor will our central bank seek once again to dramatically increase the size of its balance sheet.
It is now the smallest of Wall Street's four major firms, in both market capitalization and the size of its balance sheet.
But in the past two years the Federal Reserve has been a big buyer, more than doubling the size of its balance sheet.
All of this having been said, the best solution would be for the Fed to simply reduce the size of its balance sheet.
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The ECB has been widely criticized for increasing the size of its balance sheet by purchasing government bonds and through other nonstandard measures to address the euro zone's debt crisis.
In addition to reducing the target Fed Funds rate from 1% to a range between 0% and 0.25%, the FOMC promised to use open market operations and other measures to sustain the increased size of its balance sheet.
Each one is knitting a message or epitaph to their loved one the size of an A4 sheet of page which will form part of an enormous scarf which, it is hoped, will reach a kilometre in length.
Then, oblivious to how we got into this mess in the first place, the Fed tripled the size of its balance sheet and weakened the dollar even further in an effort to fix an economy that had been crippled by these very policies.
Louis Fed president James Bullard has been a proponent of varying the rate of asset purchases to reflect the level of accommodation, while in the past Bernanke has said the total size of their balance sheet, rather than its rate of change, determined the level of monetary easing.
It can be the way a company records revenues or handles costs. (An example would be a firm that constantly claims extraordinary or one-time write-downs.) It could be that you are just not comfortable with the amount of money a company paid for an acquisition relative to the size of its balance sheet.
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On the negative side, the ECB is contracting its balance sheet footings in size, as of February at an annualized three month rate of 33%.
Following a summer full of negative US data, the FOMC chose only to keep their balance sheet the same size and not allow it to shrink.
This is the proposal that the biggest UK banks should have enough capital, plus loans that could be converted into capital, to cope with losses equal to one-fifth of the size of their total balance sheet.
It also said that it's monitoring the size and composition of its balance sheet, and will make adjustments as warranted.
The balance sheet has doubled in size in the past two years.
The HSBC branch on Manhattan's 14th Street was an imposing structure back in the day when a bank's physical size said something about its balance sheet.
Fed critics are focused on the rapid increase in the size of the Fed's balance sheet, but, as I've written here, much of that expansion is benign.
They cite the sharp increase in the size of the Fed's balance sheet and the recent expansion of bank reserves and money measures as prima facie evidence of looming inflation.
The decision by the Fed to offer emergency liquidity to Bear Stearns and to facilitate its acquisition by JPMorgan Chase had less to do with the size of Bear's balance-sheet than with its central role in markets for credit-default and interest-rate swaps.
The exact size and placement of the holes on each sheet, and the spacing between the sheets, has a predictable effect on incoming sound waves.
The sale and run-off of non-core assets, first set out in early 2009 at the start of the RBS's three-to-five-year recovery plan, meant a fifth of the balance sheet was to be non-core, and the balance sheet was to be halved in size.
Dr Sheridon has come up with a so-called wand an electronic stick that can hold ten full-size books and also transfer text on to a sheet of Gyricon if a user runs the wand over the surface like a handheld scanner.
"In the late 1980s, the sheer size of the project stretched the company's balance sheet a little bit, " concedes Green.
The four-inch Fun felt a good half-inch smaller than its spec sheet implied -- more akin to an iPhone in size.
That suggests France is perilously perched on the cusp between being part of the solution to the eurozone's financial woes and becoming an intractable part of the problem: neurotic investors fear that the French government's balance sheet and French banks may not be strong enough to underwrite the size of bailouts that could turn out to be necessary for Italy and Spain.
In Britain, given the size of its finance industry, housing boom and consumer debt, the balance-sheet adjustment will, if anything, be greater.
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