The U.S. equity market motored to comfortable morning gains Thursday, even with no help from the financial sector as messy quarters from Bank of America and Citigroup kept the major banks in the red.
Without such a federation, can the single currency survive, I asked Helmut Schlesinger, another influential central banker who has seen the odd financial crisis at close quarters and was president of the Bundesbank when sterling was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992.
Stocks fell on Friday as one of the worst quarters since the financial crisis came to an end.
The company has been implementing cost cutting moves during the last few quarters, and financial results last month started to show signs that the cost cutting moves were paying off.
After huge losses in 2002, Zurich Financial Services even managed three consecutive quarters of profits last year.
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During the 17 quarters prior to the financial crisis (which started with 3Q2008), the Fed increased the size of the monetary base by 13.3%, and NGDP grew by 24.4%.
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Indeed, two months later in September, the company announced that its financial statements for the first three quarters of 2001, together with fiscal years 2000 and 1999, contained material inaccuracies.
Nortel's financial guidance for the first and second quarters, released Thursday, indicates revenues in line with expectations, comparable to competitors like Lucent (nyse: LU - news - people ).
They are less likely to own stocks and shares than Americans, even though some are assiduous savers against a rainy day (three-quarters of all French household financial assets are free from capital risk).
There are an estimated 80 million BlackBerry users out there, and a good chunk will almost certainly upgrade to the new device over the next two quarters to give RIM a financial boost after months of holding out for BB10.
Over the past three decades the Federal Government has poured three-quarters of a trillion dollars into financial aid for college students.
The world has watched admirably at the "wonder from down under, " a seemingly recession-proof economy that avoided a downturn after the global financial crisis and that has not experienced two successive quarters of negative growth for20 years.
With core inflation declining and nominal economic growth rates weak in the aftermath of financial crisis, bond yields should trend lower in coming quarters.
Is it really worth pressing ahead with spending nearly three quarters of a million pounds over the coming financial year on a website ask Plaid Cymru, when other similar online advice sites already exist and where you'll inevitably attract the so-called "worried well" in enthusiastic droves?
Merrill Lynch, acquired the same weekend that Lehman Brothers spiraled into bankruptcy in 2008, has been a strong earnings driver in recent quarters, while the earlier deal for Countrywide Financial has been an anchor on the company due to a host of litigation related to questionable mortgage lending and securitization.
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Misek adds that he still thinks financial results will beat consensus for both the December and March quarters.
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The iss office at most schools helps find living quarters, process paperwork such as visas, obtain financial aid and, as in Oh's case, to get students in classes to enhance their knowledge of English.
The financial crisis has been especially unkind to men: three-quarters of the 7.5m American jobs lost in the recession belonged to men and were in traditionally masculine industries, such as construction, manufacturing and finance.
Historically, about half of homeowners who get a foreclosure notice are ultimately displaced from their homes, but that ratio may turn out to be higher in coming quarters because the proportion of subprime borrowers, who have weaker financial conditions than prime borrowers, is higher.
Shares of KIT Digital, a provider of video management software, have lost more than half their previous value this morning after the company late Wednesday disclosed that due to the discovery of accounting irregularities, it is restating financial results fo 2009, 2010, 2011 and the March and June quarters of 2012.
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Three-quarters of the doctors who refer patients to specialty hospitals have no financial stake in the hospital.
With some 500, 000 retail outlets, three quarters of which are based on agreements with local banks or other financial institutions, Mr Ersek's business is hugely complex.
This division of IBM's business has been healthy in past quarters, but about 30% of its sales come from the financial industry, which is reeling from the continuing subprime meltdown.
The export surplus in financial services and insurance was 2.6% of GDP in the first three quarters of 2011.
Nearly three quarters of both groups cited trust as the most important characteristic of a financial adviser, but the big discrepancies were in performance and cost-per-service.
Ninety-five straight quarters of profits is nothing to sneeze at in any line of business, but in the financial industry, where many firms were lucky to get out of the 2008 crisis in one piece, losses have been a frequent occurrence at many firms for the past few years.
With the help of Ascend's new chief financial officer, Michael Ashby, the Digital Tool compared the model with actual results from the third and fourth quarters of 1997.
Apple just announced that it's sold 6.9 million of 'em during its financial fourth quarter, beating out the 6.1 million total first-gen iPhones sold in the previous five quarters -- and beating RIM's total sales this quarter, which Apple seems excited about.
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