Just three Brazilian enterprises have enough foreign assets to rank among the top 100 emerging-market multinationals.
It ploughed 49% of its GDP into investment last year, and almost 3% into foreign assets.
And falling share prices make this a terrible time to sell unwanted foreign assets.
Generali has tended to expand haphazardly, sitting on foreign assets rather than making them sweat.
What's more, the government is the world's largest creditor, with plenty of foreign assets to sell.
Definitely a good time to be a corporate lawyer drawing up litigation-proof structures to hold foreign assets.
The department's Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a bulletin Wednesday announcing the additions to the list.
Compared with these paltry returns, foreign assets, particularly dollar ones, look much more attractive to Japanese investors.
Low interest rates mean that more Japanese investors buy foreign assets, causing the yen to fall further.
You can see why they might find it politic to cut foreign assets proportionately more than domestic ones.
Under both models the management of emerging economies' foreign assets would be shifted increasingly to the private sector.
It will by the same token continue, at least as rapidly as Japan, to increase its net foreign assets.
In America, the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control is one of the world's largest users of name-matching technology.
Reducing the amount of foreign assets that Swiss banks hold is sensible but privileging domestic lending so flagrantly is alarming.
Its foreign assets and liabilities add up to over 60% of GDP.
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The disclosure requirement affects any company or entity that is covered by sanctions administered by the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.
The general impression conveyed is that henceforth future foreign assets must have the pedigree of Mother Teresa or Saint Francis of Assisi.
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They can, for example, tax the foreign earnings of commodity producers, ploughing the proceeds into a sovereign-wealth fund that invests in foreign assets.
Before the global credit crunch took hold, Icelandic banks had foreign assets worth about 10 times the country's GDP, with debts to match.
Yes, the ECB has liquid foreign assets that it can sell into the market to suck out new euros it injects into the market.
Unless it offset its Treasury liabilities to the rest of the world by acquiring foreign assets, it would find itself ever deeper in debt to foreigners.
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Much of the yen reaction responds to speculation that this money will be reeled in, while foreign assets will be dumped and yen demand will surge.
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This order was sought to prevent foreign assets being used for the purpose of evading justice, and to permit effective restitution to be made upon conviction.
Mr Werner was previously the head of the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, the agency responsible for enforcing the US sanctions on countries, including Iran.
Although in many cases high expectations are already priced into foreign assets, they still hold some of the best hopes for strong returns over the long term.
Russia raised reserve requirements by 50 basis points for domestic assets and 100 basis points on foreign assets, which means less liquidity, in theory, and a weaker rouble.
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However, this is a net figure: the gross figures might be purchases of foreign assets of 10% of GDP, and sale of British assets of 4% of GDP.
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Form 8938, Statement of Specified Foreign Assets, is more problematic.
Purchases of foreign assets might weaken the euro, helping exports.
Bob Werner was previously the head of the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) - the agency responsible for enforcing the US sanctions on countries including Iran.
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