Their financial firepower has increased and they are battling one another for stakes in web start-ups (see article).
If it does, the G20 is indicating that the IMF will step up to the crease with increased financial firepower of its own.
IBCA-Fitch to compete against such financial firepower will not be easy.
Eurozone governments are still struggling to agree on another vital element of this eurozone rescue package, namely how to increase the financial firepower of the EFSF.
Despite the sharp appreciation in the value of Arsenal over the past few years, Kroenke and Usmanov, neither of whom would speak with FORBES, know the Gunners still have a lot of unrealized financial firepower.
The most menacing of these is that posed by archrival Samsung, whose windfall profits from sales of memory chips and huge internal demand for advanced logic chips for Samsung-brand electronics products like smart phones give it sizeable advantages in the form of both financial firepower and in-house vertical integration.
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Mr Geithner did say that he was confident that the Europeans would be beefing up their emergency bailout facility, the European Financial Stability Facility, to give it more firepower to respond to crises and, for example, provide additional capital to banks.
Many officials fear that despite government attempts to build bigger bailout funds, only the ECB would have the firepower to quell a full-blown financial panic in southern Europe.
They agreed the terms and conditions of how to enlarge the firepower of the bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, to somewhere between 830bn euros and 1.25tn euros.
The package is expected to involve a quadrupling - from the current projected level of 440bn euros - in the firepower of Europe's main bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).
The main sticking-point remains how to increase the firepower of the eurozone's main bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).
The EU's main bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), which on 27 October was announced as having the firepower of a trillion euros, lies in limbo.
The European Financial Stability Facility is looking to China, along with sovereign wealth funds, to help expand its firepower from the 250 billion euros still in its kitty to somewhere around one trillion euros.
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