This is particularly true for smaller and distributed technologies, where the size is often too small to merit significant financing activity.

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We remain comfortable being somewhat below the Street given our conservative assumptions surrounding municipal financing activity and the inherent quarterly variability present in this project-based business model.

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Frank, who is one of the name sponsors of the Dodd Frank Act to re-regulate Wall Street after the crash of 2008, suggests the absurdity of a report that warned Wall Street would lose all its financing and investment activity to London and other foreign exchanges.

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Otherwise, with no deal activity, bond financing remains depressed along with the equity underwriting calendar.

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As lawmakers wrangled over budget cuts, tax increases and fiscal ideology in the third quarter of last year, businesses pulled back from merger activity and the financing of risk taking through stock and bond issuance.

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Financing for the capital-intensive activity of opening hundreds of thousands of square feet of retail space comes from Gill, along with bank loans.

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The MVP project is an example of how increased financing for global health has stimulated new waves of entrepreneurial activity.

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