Fashion has swung towards banks with big balance sheets that can offer loans as a lure for investment-banking business.
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In practice, they accept special offers to members of a loyalty club, or to people who book tickets early or keep a big balance on an account.
This can only be managed through tighter titration of capital, focused on derisking the story, while seeking non- or less-dilutive sources of funding to take it forward (like accessing big balance sheets of larger partners).
These small companies will be competing for financing against European giants with big balance sheets and long histories of building big, complicated projects like Abengoa and Acciona (who have already built and are still building solar thermal projects) and Siemens and Areva (who both acquired solar thermal companies recently).
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The big balance in the Rainy Day Fund might also be tapped to help counties in the Eagle Ford and elsewhere in the state to fund the repair and improvement of county roads that are being impacted by the high volume of heavy truck traffic that comes along with rapid oil and gas development.
"You look no different than somebody with a big fat balance, " says John Ulzheimer, president of consumer education at SmartCredit.com, which sells credit-score monitoring services based on its own scoring formulas.
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The expiration of the tax-credit may lead to a lag in purchases for the following months, and any rebound in prices may bring out some housing inventory hiding in the shadows of big bank balance sheets.
Santander should rightfully take its bow alongside its regulators, who closed off the capital benefits of building up big off-balance-sheet positions and required Spanish banks to put aside provisions during the upswing.
And the biggest deal or a big deal requires balance, requires an approach that reduces spending in non-defense discretionary, reduces defense spending, reduces spending through entitlements by reforming them, and spending in the tax code.
The banks lobbied against such a step, fearing it would expose big holes in their balance sheets.
The solution lies in learning to balance the big picture with the details.
Others argue that the financial system itself hangs in the balance if big players in the derivatives market are left unrestrained.
After atoning for the past merger wave's excesses with cost cuts and sales of unrelated businesses, many big companies have healthy balance sheets.
What we can do is stay aware of this tendency and build in habits that allow us to pause and balance the big picture with the details on a regular basis.
It would unlock chains of inter-company debt, as well as weaning banks off the easy option of keeping big chunks of their balance sheet in (supposedly) risk-free government bonds and encouraging them to take more credit risk.
By exaggerating the social and environmental benefits of ethical production they provide some much-needed balance to big food and drink companies, which have shown remarkably little leadership on such critical social issues as consumer health and global warming.
But at most big banks the off-balance gambit continues unabated, sometimes at bitter cost.
Likewise, India has not run into big financial trouble since a balance-of-payments crisis in 1991.
Germany's EU partners reckon that a country with a budget close to balance and a big current-account surplus could do more.
To stay the biggest of the big boxes, they must balance whatever it was that made their initial reputations with current trends.
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Or you could spend it as a congressional staffer, walking away from the balance on a big law school debt and into a law firm partnership.
Whatever the extent of their restructuring so far, companies still face a big task cleaning up their balance sheets (eg, by selling assets and pulling out of unprofitable businesses) before they can start growing again.
The reality is that if the biosimilar opportunity fails to deliver the return on investment once projected, the impact will be felt far less on the balance sheets of Big Pharma companies, many of which will continue to derive considerable revenue streams from branded biologic products.
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My take: all this saber rattling about high royalties and windfall profits taxes is designed to scare the minnows out of the water and clear the way for the government to make a development deal with the big guys who have the balance sheet and know-how to get the job done.
The other big problem with the Bells' balance sheets is their pension overhang.
"We're not willing to let a small group leverage our balance sheet or take big proprietary risks that can blow up the franchise, " says Moglia.
It continues to paint a grim picture for our banking system and shows that the balance sheets for many big players remain under considerable stress.
Later on, Clinton has her three firewalls, Ohio, Texas, and Pennsylvania, the kind of big states that could tip the balance one way or the other.
But Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB union, said the agenda was being driven by big business which "wanted the balance of power in the workplace tilted even more against the ordinary worker".
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