If the stock market goes down--thus expanding the spread-- the private equity firm can mark up its companies and sell them to other companies.
But would a substantial slow-down or even an outright recession spread over to emerging markets?
If it's spread down the middle, 50-50, or 51-49, then I think Congress's inclination is going to be not to change but to maintain the status quo until there's a greater indication that there is support for change.
Mr Rogge said that like the messengers in ancient times who shared news of the Olympic truce - the laying down of arms for the Games - "the torchbearers who carry this flame to London will spread the message of sport's capacity to promote peace and to make our world a better place".
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has conceded the lower house to Pier Luigi Bersani's centre-left bloc, played down the significance of the spread, and said he was not worried about market reaction to the vote.
Further afield in Seattle where chains are also now required to display calories (the practice also spread to California), a study of 37 sit-down and quick service burger, pizza, sandwich, and Tex-Mex chains in the area found fast-food entrees contained about 19 less calories only 18 months after the regulation was implemented.
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The subprime meltdown, which began about this time last year with the bankruptcy of New Century Financial (other-otc: NEWC - news - people ), has spread throughout the credit markets and has dragged down banks and bond insurers along with it.
As the news spread that 82-year old President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt was about to step down this past week, at the same time rumors circulated about where he would go next.
This was due primarily to the narrowing spread between long-term 30 year Treasury Bonds and 30-year TIPS. The average spread has decreased from 2.8 percent during 2010 down to 2.5 percent in 2011.
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Over the past decade or so the just-in-time concept of having supplies delivered at the last minute, so as to keep inventories down, has spread down the global manufacturing chain.
The miles passed surprisingly quickly, and soon I was heading past the View Tube, waving to scores of visitors who had come to see the park-in-progress, and on down into the undercroft of the athletics venue itself, where yet another broad smile spread across my face at the "Chariots of FIre" soundtrack being relayed on speakers as we circled beneath the stadium.
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