Their combined balance-sheet is 40% bigger today than in mid-2005.

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It arranged a deal to buy Wachovia (nyse: WB - news - people ) that would have involved moving troubled assets off the combined company's balance sheet with the assistance of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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The lack of acquisitions, combined with Simon's underleveraged balance sheet drove analysts to forecast the company's dividend to increase, but the experts advise shareholders to invest in Singaporean and U.K. property operator equities, as they may provide positive currency performance for U.S.-based investors.

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The combined company would count with a substantially stronger balance sheet, Nye argued.

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This long-term decline in NOPAT, combined with growing asset write-downs and consistently large off balance sheet debt, indicates a company with serious issues.

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This is partly because the combined bank is obliged under European state-aid rules to shrink its balance-sheet in return for the help it has received from the government.

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