In the end, finance ministers were largely bystanders as others, including European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, negotiated the final deal.
Ofcom suspects, however, that in the end public finance may be needed, both to pay for ITV1's regional news and to transform Channel 4 into a highbrow BBC clone.
To that end Pedro Malan, the Finance Minister, and Arminio Fraga, the new Central Bank chief, this week started a visit to Europe and New York.
Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady is expected to sign off on these arrangements over the week-end as the G-7 Finance Ministers meet in Paris.
The analysis is based on closed sales filed with the Department of Finance six days before the end of each quarter.
Firms that finance this equipment with borrowed money may end up paying a negative tax rate on the deal.
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Its 10-year government bonds yielded about 7% at the end of March, prompting fears it would need outside aid to finance itself.
This week European finance ministers bravely postponed a vote on this awkward issue until the end of the month.
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The two Harvard Business School grads moved from finance to fashion with BaubleBar, which sources jewelry from high-end designers and sells it on the cheap via the Web.
However, the finance minister said that he thinks the bad times are coming to an end.
Several industry segments make use of high-end computing including life sciences, energy, scientific research, defense, manufacturing and finance.
The Finance Ministry is close to inking a deal with the Swiss government to end the decades long secrecy to secret, undeclared bank accounts of the super rich.
With cash running out, the finance ministry will struggle to pay pensions and public-sector wages at the end of June.
While he was due at the end of the month to become chairman, the ousting on Friday of John Mayo, finance director and chief executive designate, prompted a board room rethink.
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