Another village has set up an enterprising share scheme to finance new oyster beds and skiffs to work them.
Any opportunity US regulators can identify to create rules that will help the US economy gain market share in global finance is being seized.
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That's why the new regulations that SEBI is now introducing for settlements and the new limits on borrowing to finance share purchases might not be as effective in practice as they appear on paper.
Citigroup (C) CEO Vikram Pandit said at a recent Goldman Sachs Financial Services conference that there were opportunities for the bank to pick up share in trade finance, where French banks have traditionally been active and are now pulling out.
In other words, the company is using merchants' share of cash to finance growth.
Merrill announced last week it was selling the lion's share of its consumer finance unit, Merrill Lynch Capital, to GE Capital, the financial unit of General Electric.
Last year revelations emerged that McClendon had borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars from private equity groups and other investors to finance his share of drilling costs under the drilling program.
Merrill announced last week it was selling the lion's share of its consumer finance unit, Merrill Lynch Capital, to GE Capital, the financial unit of General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ).
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.
When investors have it in their heads that the price of shares is falling, and those falls are reinforced by demands for increased collateral from those who lent to finance the share purchases, it is difficult to make any kind of rational prediction about when and where more than a week of share-price falls will be halted.
As the majority party, Democrats currently receive a bigger share of contributions from the finance industry than do Republicans.
City governments play a much larger role in setting China's supercomputer research agenda than they do in the U.S. because Chinese cities finance a larger share of the projects.
In both Europe and India, he points out, the state remains a big owner of enterprise, the capital markets have yet to supersede banks as a source of corporate finance, and share ownership is often concentrated in family hands.
We are all professional people, mostly in finance, and we all share a common interest in the economy and current affairs.
Was the finance industry using a larger share of the nation's resources?
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Like her Christian Democrat predecessor as chancellor, Helmut Kohl, she agreed that Germany would finance the lion's share of the increase in the size of the EU budget.
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And whether your holiday celebrates buying gifts in a store, buying them online, or using an American Express charge card to finance the buy, your share of the holiday loot depends on your ability to sell to consumers what they want at the lowest available delivered price.
The most sweeping intervention of all came from Ireland's government, where concerns about spiking credit-default swap (CDS) spreads, falling share prices and jittery depositors led the finance minister to announce, on September 30th, a blanket guarantee on the deposits and almost all the debts of the country's six biggest banks until September 2010.
Combine the gross value-added figure with the declining share of resources, and you might assume finance has enjoyed a productivity miracle over the past 20 years.
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And Veba this week sacked the head of Stinnes, its distribution division, after he insisted on making an acquisition that Veba's finance people feared might weaken its share price.
In recent weeks, any setback for the bid has given a fillip to the German firm's share-price, mostly recently when the finance minister of the exchange's home state of Hesse condemned it.
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This has sharpened the anxiety among some City folk that the Asian upstarts will not only capture the lion's share of the fast-growing demand for finance on their doorstep, but will also take a big bite out of London's established businesses.
In particular, Bing did well in finance and retail, but lost market share in travel.
These innovators are already seeing rapid adoption in the market, but they share a barrier to widespread scale: access to finance.
Toyota has not been shy about using profits from a competitive exchange rate to finance its drive for a bigger market share.
Having raised finance by selling assets and from a share issue completed in August, Fiat is using part of the money to overhaul its product line.
Indeed, it may end up as a negative-margin business: If history is any guide, some companies will be willing to sell at a loss to gain market share, and there will be investors willing to finance them, at least for a while.
Share of Small Business Owners Borrowing Against Home Equity to Finance Their Businesses, 2000-2007.
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Higher share prices make it cheap for firms to raise equity finance and so they invest more.
Individual circumstances demand creativity, and city officials have been happy to meet with municipal finance managers from as far as Australia to share its model.
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