The economy anyway is thriving, aided not least by an inflow of immigrants: by now over 40% of all mega-Torontans are foreign-born, the big flow recently coming from Asia.
While it is a mature business, it is a big cash flow generator.
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When the ad units evolve to match the social nature of the communities and communications then the money will flow big.
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One of the big exceptions to that is flow through income from S corporations.
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But a lot of folks are nervous about what might happen there, and so they're anticipating there might be a big disruption in terms of flow.
Portfolio flow into the big four emerging markets was on the rise again last week, according to EPFR Global, a fund tracking firm in Cambridge, Mass.
In May, Enbridge, a Canadian company, reversed the flow of a big North American oil pipeline, sending a glut of oil from America's northern plains southward to coastal refineries.
Strong global demand, inadequate spare production capacity, and threatened interruptions in the flow of oil from big suppliers Iran and Nigeria kept prices high this week.
The big question is whether this crude will flow south to U.S. refineries, or west for export to China.
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Eric and Jessica were far from ready to supply such a big order - mainly because of cash flow problems.
It gets a perfect score on valuation, however, in part because of a big earnings yield and strong free cash flow.
O.tel.o overall, he says, will turn cash-flow positive in 2002, a big swing from this year's likely loss of DM2 billion, half of which is eaten by Veba.
The flow of assets out of the big four firms was accelerated amid the financial crisis when money moved into the hands of more independent advisors unaffiliated with the big Wall Street firms whose reputations had been tarnished.
Businesses evaluating how to get in on the Big Data boom need to decide which of three possible roles they want to play: information provider, information broker, or creator of networks through which all that Big Data-driven content and context will flow.
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But the seats fell as they did in 2011, and although Labour have carefully concentrated on giving every impression of being a majority government when they're not, it means there are tricky times coming down the road when the big and complex pieces of legislation start to flow.
They're not finding big, new fields, so their free cash flow is unlikely to improve much.
Big upside move on Friday perhaps as the news flow out of Europe is getting a bit better.
But regulators still tend to imagine that power will flow in one direction only: from big plants to small consumers.
But I am a big believer in technology and I'm a big believer in openness when it comes to the flow of information.
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But it also took a big risk by ploughing half of its free cash flow into financial services, betting that returns from this growing business would justify the increase in its balance-sheet leverage.
In West Allis, a blue-collar suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, clean-cut college students in pressed white shirts sat with Palm Pilots and a big box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts, monitoring the flow of voters into the polls.
One big investment manager does 50-60 percent of its flow through broker DMA, but they cut it up between four or five brokers.
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Curle then cut staff from 22 to 11 and steered the company to positive cash flow by only going after customers with consistently big budgets, like manufacturers and the military.
At 9 times my estimate for 2009 earnings and 4 times cash flow, it's cheap enough for a big, long run.
To get some perspective on the steady flow of unsettling media coverage, look at the big news stories that bookended the period from August 5 to October 13.
This is a very big problem because once confidence returns, and credit begins to flow more easily, we could end up with runaway inflation, an even bigger problem as this would wipe out savings and have a wealth-destroying effect.
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By outlawing big changes in market prices, we are essentially cutting off the flow of information.
Yet even big, well-heeled companies would rather not have their cash flow gobbled up by pension obligations.
Boeing shares had gained 11 percent in the three months prior to Monday as investors anticipated a growing flow of cash from Boeing's faster production of its big planes.
New technologies promise not just big improvements in local efficiency, but also the further and potentially bigger gains that flow from an infinitely denser network of connections, electronic and otherwise, with the developed world.
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