IMF, in the most recent of its periodic reports on Switzerland's financial sector, said that Swiss anti-money-laundering measures met the highest international standards, and that the sector's regulation and supervision were effective and solid.
"Their gearing is way higher than anybody else in the space they're operating in, " says rbs analyst Nirgunan Tiruchelvam, noting that sometime rival Noble Group, out of Hong Kong, is barely above one times equity, and that that's the sector's second-highest next to Olam.
The U.S. nonmanufacturing sector's expansion picked up steam in May, bucking economists' expectation for it to slow, according to the Institute for Supply Management.
It provides roughly 50% of the U.S. electricity sector's needs--even with the "going green" craze at full throttle, power companies aren't going to stop gobbling up coal.
It would encourage important steps towards reducing what Mr. Bush has rightly described as the country's "addiction to oil" by decreasing the U.S. transportation sector's reliance on immense quantities of gas and diesel fuels much of which are imported from countries that are unstable at best, and dangerous at worst.
"The National's listing alongside the commercial sector's super-power, ATG, reflects not only the NT's stature but also the stature of subsidised theatre itself, " he explained.
By contrast, Mr Jospin has had no such helpful precursor: France's right, like its left, believes instinctively in the state's superiority and in the public sector's honourable and essential role.
But given the severity of the job losses that took place at the beginning of the year and the need for us to make up a whole lot of job loss, is going to require I think some bold, innovative action on our part and on Congress's part and on the private sector's part.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama: ��Economy Back from the Brink��
You must rethink your company's playscript and if possible reinvent the entire sector's playscript.
At The Wall Street Journal's CEO Council conference this month, Alan Krueger, chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, highlighted the service sector's central role for jobs growth.
Popular's North American head, Roberto Herencia, counteracts the sector's seedy image by proudly displaying the Popular name alongside Cash Express.
The alternative was to see the private sector's assault on defined-benefit pensions escalate into the public sector, the last safe bastion of such benefits.
The budget is followed by Friday's release of the country's banking audit, which is expected to reveal details of the sector's financial needs.
Now here's the bullish case for mall REITs: Take out Mills and the sector's earnings are not bad at all.
But he said he was against one of the key issues the ICB is examining - that of splitting a bank's retail operations from its investment arm - saying that a lot of the banking sector's problems were caused by simple bad investment decisions.
Tata's may be the most balanced, which seems to have insulated it from the worst of the sector's woes.
The public sector's once huge share in industry and commerce has shrunk to about 12% today.
The rest of the public sector's schemes are paid for directly by the taxpayer.
Defence stocks also fell after a broker downgraded several of the sector's key companies.
Gross margin on home sales widened to 22.5% from 19.4%, one of the sector's highest rates.
Much of the auto sector's considerable weakness has already been priced into the company's stocks.
But without adjusting for risk, this measure of the finance sector's economic worth is meaningless.
ECONOMIST: The banks' contribution to the economy has been overstated
The Financial Select Sector SPDR fell 1% Tuesday afternoon, with Citi among the sector's worst performers.
The bad news for prospective REIT shareholders is that the sector's shares have already been bid up.
The financial sector's nosedive helped drag the CAC 40 index down 104 points, or 1.8%, to 5645.29.
You must also decipher your sector's operating rules--it might be bound by regulation, or steeped in tradition.
The association estimates the regulations could wipe out a quarter of the Indian IT sector's global revenue.
"The sector's return to growth has been driven by three factors, " said Tiga chief executive Richard Wilson.
"I did an 180 degree turn, " Goldman Sachs' Miller says about his view of the sector's prospects.
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