Roach is no newcomer to Asia either, and his interactions with Chinese and other contacts obviously give the giant firm confidence he can drum up business in the region.
Although some onlookers worry that the lack of firm proposals will hurt confidence, the initiatives themselves matter little to the region's prospects of recovery.
Its auditor, Deloitte, resigned last month, citing lost confidence in the firm's financial reporting.
The firm blamed "fragile consumer confidence" in the run up to Christmas for the fall in UK sales.
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This humanizes the company, increases liking, and builds confidence that the firm actually cares about the pets entrusted to them.
Fuld again attempted to shore up confidence in the firm Thursday, ousting its chief financial officer and president and chief operating officer.
"This settlement is a substantial step toward resolving all outstanding regulatory matters and allows the firm to move forward with confidence, " the company.
By choosing to pour a ton of money into Twitter today, Apple would pour its confidence in a firm whose future is still uncertain.
Receivership, by contrast, is a process started by a company's bank, or other creditor, who has lost confidence in a firm's ability to repay its debts.
We all know that the best responses are those that invoke confidence, a firm grip on the situation and a conviction that you know what to do.
That door was slammed shut when MF Global blew up after a push into European sovereign debt left the firm short on the counterparty confidence a financial institution needs to operate.
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The cost looks steep in excess of 70% of the equity of the firm was surrendered to the new investors until you consider how slim the chances of survival are for a securities firm that has lost the confidence of the market.
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The presence of foreign interests in any firm in those markets gives me some confidence.
But Joel Prakken, the firm's chairman, has limited confidence in that forecast.
Lay and Skilling, who have pleaded innocent to all charges, maintain that there was no fraud at Enron--merely bad publicity and poor investor confidence, bringing down the firm's value innocently, like many other companies that sagged in the early 21st century.
China's willingness to invest in Morgan Stanley was seen as a vote of confidence on Wall Street and the firm's shares rose 4% in Wednesday trading.
My firm's research suggests that business and consumer confidence there is high, that there is not too much leverage in China's marketplace (leverage, not high prices, is what causes dangerous real estate and stock bubbles) and that the government is investing smartly in infrastructure projects like rail lines, subways and clean technology initiatives that improve economic efficiency and lower the costs of doing business.
The committee said the current seasonal predictions from the Met Office "do not provide a firm basis on which decision-makers can act with confidence".
The decision of prominent venture capital firm Union Square Ventures to invest in DuckDuckGo shows investor confidence in the opportunities for innovation and growth in the search space.
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And confidence in credit-card asset-backed securities is pretty firm despite paralysis in other corners of structured finance.
That they are shoring up a firm too small to pose a systemic risk betrays a continuing lack of confidence in the financial system's ability to absorb even modest shocks.
First, they resigned from the RTO firm China MediaExpress Holdings (CCME) in March after saying they had lost confidence in management.
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Although it can do nothing for Mr Lay, the fate of Bear Stearns illustrates how quickly a firm's prospects can go from promising to non-existent when counterparties lose confidence in it.
But the testimony of government officials Thursday made clear that even a firm meeting regulatory standards for capital and liquidity can fall prey to a collapse in confidence, making it virtually impossible to raise capital to stop the damage fast enough to matter.
Investment firm Diagnostic Capital, which set up Collbio, said the deal was a sign of confidence returning to the life sciences sector.
However, businessmen across the eurozone operating in the retail sector did not show greater confidence, according to the survey, chiming with separate survey data from research firm Markit that indicated retail sales across the single currency area fell for the fifteenth month in a row in January.
Consumer confidence rose sharply in September, according to GfK NOP, a market-research firm.
David Olson, who runs the mortgage research firm Wholesale Access, says lenders were willing to make high-risk loans with the false confidence that if worse came to worse, the borrowers could always sell the house and get their money back.
Consumer confidence among high net worth individuals has waned even further since the collapse of Wall Street firm Lehman Brothers in September and the ensuing malaise in the financial sector.
" The bottom line, says James Schiro, CEO of the multinational accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, is that improving corporate management "is a way to deal with the growing crisis of confidence in the region and globally.
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