The cost of the clear-up is set to run into tens of billion of dollars.
BBC: Prince Harry and David Cameron in New York to promote UK
The investment bank, in fact, also still existed, albeit with billion of dollars in mortgage bonds that had gone bad as the subprime crisis worsened.
It had recently introduced new risk controls, aimed at preventing the kind of toxic investments that led to it losing tens of billion of dollars in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
FORBES: UBS 'Rogue Trader' Told Facebook Friends I 'Need A Miracle'
Either the banks and mortgage holders have to take seven hundred billion dollars of losses or the government has to come up with seven hundred billion dollars of subsidies to cover these costs.
The Ekati Diamond Mine has produced an average of approximately three quarters of a billion dollars of rough diamonds per year over the past five years, Harry Winston said in a statement.
FORBES: Harry Winston to Purchase Ekati Diamond Mine For $500 Million
Its future should not be jeopardised for the sake of a few billion dollars of soyabean subsidies or a few million tonnes of beef imports.
ECONOMIST: Is in Geneva, not Davos. It's time to pay another visit
On February 22, 2013, Frederic Mishkin, Peter Hooper, James Hamilton and David Greenlaw published Crunch Time: Fiscal Crises and the Role of Monetary Policy, an 86-page paper that predicts the Fed will stare down the barrel of a few hundred billion dollars of losses when interest rates rise.
Its investment-banking arm, which has grown rapidly over the past decade, still accounts for about three-tenths of its revenues (close to twenty billion dollars in the first nine months of this year) and more than two-thirds of its net profits (upward of six billion dollars in the same period).
One of my bank clients has several billion dollars of cash and short-term assets on which it is earning just 27 hundredths of one percent interest.
"I can think of one, for example, that we've done a quarter of a billion dollars' worth of business with, which hadn't responded to us after four separate queries, " Kizer said.
CNN: Year 2000 bug could be dangerous for hospitals, experts warn
They apply, after all, only to imports worth a couple of billion dollars last year, hardly the stuff of a great trade war.
Greenlight believes that Apple has the capacity to ultimately distribute several hundred billion dollars of preferred, which would unlock hundreds of dollars of value per share.
The chain sprung to life in August 2005 after the sale of its Canadian unit took about a billion dollars of debt off its books and swept Canada head EricClausEric Claus into the chief executive role.
We take a billion dollars out of grants to large airports, almost a billion dollars from state revolving funds for water treatment plants.
What do I say to my fellow committee members? 5, 000 families have entrusted their savings to us, the accumulated results of their lifetime of labors, and they have put almost 7 billion dollars of it into our care.
FORBES: As Obama Heads To Term Two, What Are Investors To Do?
In a market where Call of Duty sells a billion dollars worth of copies every year, it can be hard to make an impact doing something different.
This will add operating costs of nearly one billion dollars on top of those incurred as a result of the other 150 regulations that have been issued under the Higher Education Act since 2008.
Analysts have pegged Merck's liability in Vioxx cases at anywhere between a few billion dollars and tens of billions of dollars.
At the end of 2010, Energy XXI purchased a billion dollars worth of declining oil and gas properties from Exxon Mobil, in the Gulf of Mexico.
That position was consolidated by the disbursement in July of more than a quarter of a billion dollars for research into a vaccine, and of half a billion to the main international anti-AIDS organisation, the Global Fund.
Stagnation in aid commitments, which have left a funding gap of seven billion dollars annually, and a cut in the share of national income to education in some countries, are causes for serious concern and must be reversed, said the representatives from 39 governments including several major donor countries, intergovernmental organizations and civil society.
Right now, four billion of your tax dollars subsidize the oil industry every year.
WHITEHOUSE: Weekly Address: An All-Of-The-Above Approach to American Energy | The White House
Yet somehow, Congress is still giving those same companies another four billion dollars of your money.
WHITEHOUSE: Weekly Address: An All-Of-The-Above Approach to American Energy | The White House
It's already attracted one and three-quarter billion dollars of investment, says manager of the park Gin Ray(ph).
Dump the quarter-billion dollars of salaries tied to Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett and Carl Crawford all at once.
The Board recently approved a buyback program to repurchase up to one billion dollars of its shares.
Several US congressmen have said there is little to show for the billion dollars of aid former President Bill Clinton granted to Colombia.
It also opens the gate for renewed project funding worth a couple of billion dollars a year to Pakistan by the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank.
If you had a couple of billion dollars, would you strap on a BlackBerry, jump on a plane and give a speech about why consumers should love your product?
On the most reliable estimates, several hundred billion dollars of new money sloshes into the financial system each year, while the total stock of criminal cash runs into the trillions.
应用推荐