Moody's Investors Service said it is considering raising the ratings on MBIA's public finance operation, but sees risks.

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"Whether it came from his pleas to his base that he really needed them to come out, or whether it came from his refocusing his campaign finance operation, he was right in there with Romney and Giuliani, " Krumholz says.

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Last year Indonesia secured low-interest loans from the Japan International Co-operation Agency to finance most of the project.

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Agreement over the tax had already been reached before the meeting, and the nod from a majority of the Ecofin group of EU finance ministers - a requirement of the enhanced co-operation procedure - was merely a procedural matter, according to the Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan.

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He quit a year later--ahead of Drexel's collapse triggered by prosecution of its junk-bond operation--to do boutique-finance deals that eventually led him to Houston billionaire Robert McNair's Cogen Technologies (which sold most of its plants to Enron just before that giant's collapse).

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The idea that four poorer countries with scant record of co-operation, even on simple things, can finance and build something so costly and complex seems a stretch.

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The company will be responsible for the operation of the force control centre, HR, training, finance and custody.

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The report claims that it would be in the interests of the rest of the UK - to promote trade, competitiveness and financial stability - that there should be co-operation on jointly managing the sterling currency and other policies on finance.

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The crisis is being seen by this quintet of finance ministers as an opportunity to get back some of that spirit of international co-operation which marked the response to crisis in the winter of 2008-09.

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