The retail offer for the last of the big state-owned commercial banks was six times oversubscribed.
Private businesses will likely enjoy better access to credit from the big state-owned commercial banks, which have long been biased toward money-losing public enterprises.
China's state-owned commercial banks make over 60% of the country's loans.
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They have remained largely exempt from America's 50-year ban on banks being owned by commercial companies.
By contrast, most of Europe's global aspirants are owned by commercial banks, whose conservative traditions clash with the fast-paced, deal-making culture of successful investment banking.
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.
Professor du Toit, director of the Mammal Research Unit at Pretoria University, says commercial white-owned farms in Zimbabwe are home to many rare large mammals, including cheetah, black rhino and sable - a type of antelope.
Europe's state-owned weather services complain that the commercial companies have unfair advantages.
And while Mr Quest said BHA is aware of the danger of over-pricing, many hotels are independently owned and businesses make their own commercial decisions.
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And as to the specific thing that those technology company leaders were noting, that it can take up to a decade to get government owned spectrum reallocated and freed up for commercial usage.
There are believed to be 4, 000 commercial farms - mostly white-owned - that occupy up to half of Namibia's arable land.
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Armed mobs roam Abidjan, the commercial capital, looting white-owned property.
ITN, which is 40 percent owned by ITV, is Britain's top commercial news producer.
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Eddie Stobart, the owner of one Britain's biggest commercial fleets, says that European-owned lorries should have to pay for using British roads, just as British hauliers have to pay road tolls on the continent.
Together the four networks own about 50 stations in major markets, leaving just under 1, 200 commercial stations scattered across the nation not owned by the major networks that could be targeted by the liquor industry.
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The Phoenix, owned by the city council, said it was a commercial venture and would not interfere with the arts.
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The other teams - many of them owned or part-owned by car manufacturers - are pressing for a better commercial deal.
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It should be set up as an independent corporation, owned by and answerable to all the aviation interests, commercial and general.
On 26 March, the Post Office will be turned into a state-owned limited company, giving its management more control over key commercial decisions.
Berlusconi, 40, is vice chairman of Mediaset SpA, the Italian commercial television network founded by his father and now owned by the Berlusconi family through the holding company, Fininvest.
Already the broadcaster has spurned an advance from privately owned Five, preferring to marry the BBC's hugely profitable commercial arm, BBC Worldwide.
Anton Periquet, head of equities research in Manila for Deutsche Regis Partners, a joint venture between Deutsche Bank and a Philippine brokerage, likes Ayala Land, 58% owned by Ayala Corp. and the country's largest landlord, with commercial and residential properties.
Anton Periquet, head of equities research in Manila for Deutsche Regis Partners, a joint venture between Deutsche Bank (nyse: DB - news - people ) and a Philippine brokerage, likes Ayala Land, 58% owned by Ayala Corp. and the country's largest landlord, with commercial and residential properties.
Joseph McStay owned Earth Inspired Products, a company that built custom water features for high-end commercial businesses around the world, says Mike McStay, his younger brother.
China's small and medium enterprises, for example, paid a dear price as state-owned entities and local governments received the lion's share of the limited supply of loans from commercial banks.
Until recently the Federal Reserve owned rather safe assets like gold, short-term Treasury bills and the short-term IOUs of commercial banks.
This particular extraordinary estate is owned by bonafide real estate tycoon Donald Abbey, who built his massive fortune by acquiring multi-tenant commercial properties in Southern California.
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