This was true internationally, as central banks of developing countries parked their growing foreign exchange reserves in the US, so that the South provided net finance to the North, instead of using such resources for its own development.
In contrast, net FDI might finance less than one-third of India's deficit and only one-sixth of South Africa's, implying that their currencies are more at risk.
This reduces the net capital inflow required to finance the trade deficit.
Excluding its listed finance arm, its net debt is 1.9 times its gross operating profit.
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Accounting and finance fared worst, with a net of -1% planning to hire.
The Medicaid expansion could offer hospitals at least some reimbursement for 16 million of the newly insured patients, but if states opt not to finance their share of the growing safety net, hospitals in those markets would lose a share of their growing customer base.
This will be a big change of habit: according to Morgan Stanley, America's net Treasury-bond purchases, outside those by the finance industry, have been zero since 1992.
According to Microsoft the messages were sent via net addresses owned by the Kuwait Ministries of Communication and Finance, several Korean schools, the Seoul Municipal Boramae Hospital, and the Virginia Community College System.
This would ensure that the trust would be a safety net, as intended, and not a windfall that could finance some frivolous or self-destructive behavior.
Thus, there was no net US demand at all from US consumers using their homes to finance larger consumption.
The problem is not so much the budget deficit (though Greece was certainly profligate) as the net foreign borrowing by all actors, public and private (say to finance a trade deficit).
The Institute of International Finance, a bankers' group, expects a 30% decline in net flows of private capital from last year.
"At the moment, the social safety net has become the focus of concern by the international community, " said former finance minister Mar'ie Muhammad recently.
If we assume that net FDI continues at last year's pace, then it would more than finance the expected current-account deficits in Brazil and Mexico this year.
Catherine L. Mann, professor of global finance at Brandeis, says her research that appeared in the TCC report focuses on net job creation, rather than growth of individual companies.
This yields a net employment outlook of -2% for a metropolis that relies heavily on jobs in banking, finance and communications.
Still, the greenback got a push higher against the yen in early Asian trading as data showed Japanese investors reversed a two-month selling trend by becoming net buyers of foreign bonds in the past two weeks through to May 4, according to the Ministry of Finance.
The finance ministers of Norway and Saudi Arabia have no cause to worry about their borrowing costs because they are net creditors.
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