At the time--and through late October, until EchoStar won the bidding--News Corp. had been intent on acquiring DirecTV from General Motors, at a price that would have strained the News Corp. balance sheet.
The privately owned gold held in Turkish commercial banks has shown up on the balance sheet for the central bank, resulting in news reports of inflated official-sector reserves in the country, the consultancy said.
And you won't see his name anywhere in the 88-page information sheet that Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ), which underwrote the private offering, prepared for investors--even though he put up the money to launch Forge.
Greenland's surface layer vaulted into the news in summer 2012 when higher than normal temperatures caused surface melting across about 97 percent of the ice sheet.
It arranged a deal to buy Wachovia (nyse: WB - news - people ) that would have involved moving troubled assets off the combined company's balance sheet with the assistance of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.