But Bank of America, FleetBoston Financial, First Union, Bank One and Wells Fargo all have big venture-capital operations.
The second group included Goldman Sachs, Societe Generale, Barclays, Credit Agricole, BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and UBS. Moody's said these firms had varying risk factors, from high dependence on capital markets operations to limited liquidity and exposure to Europe.
This, most believe, is best achieved by using banks' own credit-risk models, much as their internal models are used to allocate capital in trading operations.
Because of inflexibility in the labour market and high labour costs, German companies do much of their labour-intensive production abroad, keeping the capital-intensive operations at home.
And they've moved outside of the capital to continue operations.
While state-owned companies get favorable loans from the state-owned banks and invest this capital in their operations, the government itself invests very little of its own money directly into these industries a very important distinction.
Many utilities lack the depth of data needed to implement more cost-effective asset-management systems like condition-based monitoring and maintenance methods, which utilities in Europe and Asia are adopting to enhance the efficient use of capital and reduce operations and maintenance costs.
Firms should also think about integrating risk considerations more widely into decisions regarding operations, capital management and management processes.
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Additionally, with each fuel market swing, budgets and credit lines are stretched, limiting the capital businesses need for operations and growth.
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If listed, the company will first be delisted and taken private in order to allow either its capital structure or its operations to be restructured.
Growth of free cash flow (cash flow from operations minus capital expenditures) is slowing and actually fell 29% in the last quarter compared with a year earlier.
Capital transaction, Comverge believes it would be unable to raise the necessary capital to fund continuing operations, which would place existing stockholder investment in the company at significant risk.
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Instead he uses a multiple of free cash flow (here defined as cash from operations minus capital spending, but adding back proceeds from selling assets such as equipment-which United does regularly).
Several other large corporations ranging from international investment banks to domestic financing companies like GE Capital have also expanded operations and facilities in Stamford over the past four or five years.
This represents an annual growth of 10% for debt assets deployed and is fueled by the growing need for companies globally to raise capital to expand their operations after the economic downturn and a return of liquidity as market recover from the recent downturn.
Donner will use the financial support deal for working capital in connection with the operations of the Bracemac-McLeod Mine.
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No longer involved in day-to-day operations at Sequoia Capital because of an incurable medical condition, venture capitalist Michael Moritz has turned his focus to philanthropy.
Banks fail because they either run out of capital to support their ongoing operations, their asset values drop below that of their liabilities, or fraud forces regulators to step in and take over.
Specifically, he has studiously ignored the danger posed to our economy and security, and to individual investors' portfolios, by companies trading in the U.S. capital markets who have corporate operations in terrorist-sponsoring states.
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Though interest rates are next to nothing, consumers are paying down their debt or storing cash against the fear of another bad slowdown and are not buying enough consumer goods to force companies to invest more capital, to expand their operations and hire more people.
Regrettably, not all of the emerging market players seeking to enter our capital markets are benign, commercial operations.
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Prescott believes that China will produce more technology capital and have more multinationals with operations abroad in the years ahead.
It has warned national regulators about policies that prevent banks from moving capital and deposits freely between their operations in multiple European countries.
And if, as seems likely, bank-solvency rules are redesigned, capital charges for prime-broking operations could yet rise, causing a contraction in lending to hedge funds.
When combined with funding the general cash deficits, these multitrillion-dollar Treasury operations will dominate the capital markets in the years ahead, particularly given China's de-emphasis of new investment in U.S. Treasurys in favor of increasing foreign direct investment, and Japan's and Europe's own sovereign-debt challenges.
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By early Monday, with more than 9 inches of snow reported in some areas of Denver, airline operations in the Colorado capital were working to return to normal a day after more than 200 of 1, 500 flights had been canceled and hundreds more flights were delayed because of the weather, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Finally, the industry began to outsource its operations, becoming much more capital efficient.
It seems that the market is banking on the Fed chief making explicit promises to spark the economy and capital markets with creative open-market operations.
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Customers, human resources, access to capital, day-to-day operations, and on and on real small businesses with 9 employees or less simply work differently, think differently, and have radically different needs.
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