On average, the big-four Chinese banks are down 29% this year in Hong Kong trading, yet analysts have remained steadfastly bullish.
Even if the remaining global economies could somehow escape being affected by the problems of the big-four, it would not make much difference.
Companies in the volatile construction business and those on the leading edge of technology might also face higher audit fees or no audits at all, says another big-four partner.
Consumer and small-business loans would account for roughly 60% of the merged bank's domestic total, about the same as at Mizuho and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, the other big-four bank.
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One response that I read from a spokesperson from EMI - one of the big four labels - you know, they're acknowledging that DRM creates confusion for consumers.
Instead of two four-man groups making big runs of each item, four two-man teams do small runs of a few pieces.
Witherspoon will star opposite funnyman Vince Vaughn in New Line's big-budget comedy Four Christmases this winter.
The Big Four- Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga and Serie A, account for 52% of players and fully 75% by value.
Over the last five years, counting the 2008 French Open, Federer has played 108 completed Grand Slam matches against non-Big Four players.
Fiscal first-quarter profits at four big investment banks--Lehman, Goldman, Bear Stearns Cos. (nyse: BSC - news - people ), and Morgan Stanley, were up 19% on average.
They deposit about two-thirds of these savings in China's four big state-owned banks, which lend about two-thirds of these deposits to state-run firms.
With hundreds of little local co-operative banks also taking a slice of the market, the four big private-sector banks have a mere 14% of deposits and 15% of loans.
Ibrahimovic smashed a fierce free-kick through the hands of Zaragoza goalkeeper Javier Lopez Vallejo four minutes later, and the big-money summer signing crossed low for Keita to score four minutes before halftime.
Four big-screen, big-budget features, from 1978 to 1987, starred Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel.
Meanwhile, non-"big four" networks are starting to show up in the DirecTV lineup (at least in Ben's neck of the woods).
There are nine leagues that are sending enough players to make up a whole team- the Big Four plus France, Russia, Portugal, Ukraine and Greece.
The Packers are the only publicly-owned Big Four professional sports team in the U.S. By my count, 112, 158 shareholders own around 4.8 million shares of the team.
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In New York City, overall school funding was hit harder by the recession than other areas of the state, and spending on instruction dropped more dramatically than in the state's other four big-city districts compared with how much it would have if trends had continued, according to the study.
The trend helped double the full-size pickup truck market in the U.S. in the past decade to 2.2 million vehicles a year--and means pickup trucks come with four big doors and family-friendly options.
For its second consecutive year, the General Electric-owned network ranked last among the big four networks, in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic, which advertisers pay a premium to reach, for the 2006 to 2007 season.
Prime-time ratings for the big four networks are down 7.9% year-to-date for total household ratings and 11.2% in adults up to age 49, a demographic advertisers pay a premium to reach, according to Lehman Brothers Equity Research analyst Anthony J.
EMC's ten-year shareholder returns are pretty lousy (-13% annualized), but in the past five years Tucci beat all but four of his big-cap tech peers with 10% annual earnings growth.
Joyner, 54, has a big carrot in his four-hour radio show, with 1.6 million listeners daily in 115 markets.
The National Association of Attorneys General drafted the 1998 settlement that indemnified the big four cigarette manufacturers- Philip Morris USA, R.
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Barbour has also high hopes for Cookstown in the league - challenging the so-called 'Big Four' of Lisnagarvey, Instonians, Banbridge and Annadale.
Chicago is one of four big markets--the others are Atlanta, Houston and Dallas--that Sicola says are being weakened by too much development in the suburbs.
Property developers fell on mainland exchanged as expectations faded that accommodative measures for selected property loans from China's four big state-owned banks may boost demand.
The UK-wide research aimed to discover the number of new supermarkets for the so-called 'big four' companies given approval between 1 November 2008 and 1 November 2010.
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