The main requirements, it was suggested, were political will and, of course, money.

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The main reason why margin requirements make little difference to share prices is that most prices are set by institutional investors, and not, as popular myth suggests, by crazy day traders.

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The main tool for this will be higher capital requirements.

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And the main reason for that is that we will have the next emission requirements coming Jan. 1, 2010.

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Mr Black said the parliament's corporate body had not significantly altered requirements over the last four years and as such the main cause of the delay since September 2000 was the production of detailed variations in the design and the late delivery of information.

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Mr Romney has backed higher capital requirements, so banks would get little relief from one of their main complaints.

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