However, agencies may recognize market adjustments on bills, notes, bonds, and zero coupon bond securities classified as available-for-sale.

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Each idea is referred to as a stock, and those mock securities are classified as "Savings Bonds, " which focus on cost-cutting, "Bow Jones, " which build on existing technologies, and "Spazdaq, " which describes ideas using entirely new technology.

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For the record, when the Fed buys government securities in the market (yes, through dealers, of which Goldman Sachs is one), the ultimate seller gives up a highly liquid asset (government securities), which are not classified as money, for bank deposits, only slightly more liquid, which are classified as money.

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The actual exposure to pure property development is smaller than the official numbers suggest, says Arturo de Frias, an analyst at Evolution Securities, because of the way loans are classified.

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