In 2007, the volume of shadow banking transactions in the US exceeded that of conventional banking assets.

Many have public pension funds of substantial magnitude, consisting of diversified portfolios of assets.

One possible answer is that the volume of monthly Fed purchases also matters for global asset prices. Another possibility is that investors around the world read far more into the Fed s statements than the Fed intended.

As of 2014 it is the second largest bank in India in terms of assets and market capitalization.

What made the spread of derivatives possible was the ease with which the volume of debt for a given set of real assets could be expanded.

But domestic demand, which determines imports, consists not only of consumption, but also of fixed asset investment.

Currently, there are few clear opportunities for investors, especially in terms of transaction size and scale.

The problem in China is not the volume of state owned assets, but their concentration in a few companies and industries a situation that poses risks to economic performance. Given this, the logical solution is not to dispose of the state s asset holdings, but to diversify them over time.

Only when a country invests less in fixed assets than the amount that it saves will the surplus savings show up in the trade balance.

If the claimant responds by giving an explanation as to which assets the equity loss relates, the Panel values the losses alleged by the claimant in relation to those assets.

The People's Bank of China has more financial assets than any single public institution, and is second only to the Federal Reserve System of the United States in terms of overall central bank assets.

In China, where the asset side of the balance sheet is large, the strategy of shrinking it via privatization has been largely rejected, at least for now.

Abdominal ultrasound, in which the size of the kidneys is measured, is commonly performed.

STOCKHOLM The idea of a bad bank appears to grow more popular by the day in countries where toxic assets have paralyzed lending.

(e) Cost effectiveness the extent to which the outcomes of the Committee are commensurate with the resources invested, in terms of both the quantity and quality of its deliberations.

As the work load of the Trial Chambers decrease, the focus will shift to the Appeal Chamber where a drastic increase in work is anticipated.

As the work load of the Trial Chambers decrease, the focus will shift to the Appeal Chamber where a drastic increase in work is anticipated.

It captured our attention because it was so bad in terms of lives and property damage.

This is equivalent to 700 billion, the same magnitude as the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) instituted in late 2008 to keep US financial markets from collapsing.

That would have put a partial brake on growth in asset prices, raised savings, reduced investment, and probably lowered the trade deficit.

(Today, it is a staggering 387 billion.)

The liquid traps a sample of gas in the cylinder, and the graduation allows the volume of the gas to be measured.

Agriculture accounted for less than 20 of both net material product and total employment before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Microenterprises in developing countries, then, tend to be the most frequent form size of business.

The magnitude of the task in terms of realizing the objectives of the Convention or the EFA goals or the Millennium Development Goals is great.

The party resorted to anti Semitic propaganda, pointing to the Jewish ancestry of some of the student leaders.

Unless their growth rates slow sharply, their contribution to world output will rise dramatically, and global growth will be stronger than worried Western analysts might appreciate.

The assets to liabilities ratio was down from 2.4 at the end of 2003 to 2.1 at the end of 2004, with assets of 264 million and short term liabilities of 123 million.

The assets to liabilities ratio was down from 2.4 at the end of 2003 to 2.1 at the end of 2004, with assets of 264 million and short term liabilities of 123 million.

Russia s most famous museum, the Hermitage, is second only to the Louvre in its collection of French art.

It operated in 78 countries, had over 400 branches, and had assets in excess of US 20 billion, making it the 7th largest private bank in the world by assets.

The racial makeup of the city was 34.01 White, 28.32 African American, 0.45 Native American, 16.20 Asian, 0.08 Pacific Islander, 15.11 from other races, and 5.84 from two or more races.

Colombia is the sixth country in the world by magnitude of total renewable freshwater supply, and still has large reserves of freshwater.

The Port of South Louisiana (Metropolitan New Orleans in Laplace) and the Port of Houston are two of the ten busiest ports in the world by cargo volume.

This volume of assets allows the Fund to expand its investment frontier and requires it to build up a risk control mechanism, to control comprehensively not only investment risk but also operational risk and technology risk.

Most important, however, has been what looks, from today s perspective, like a permanent collapse in the risk bearing capacity of the private marketplace, and a permanent and large increase in the perceived riskiness of financial assets worldwide and of the businesses whose cash flows underpin them.

In fact, the US stress tests didn t attempt to estimate the losses that banks have suffered on many of the toxic assets that have been at the heart of the financial crisis.

The world s central banks are already cutting interest rates on safe assets, and will cut them more as the proximity and magnitude of the likely global slump becomes clear.

It is one of the largest ports in the eastern Mediterranean in terms of freight volume and handles about 26 million tons of cargo a year.

The more the PBC intervenes, the larger the national welfare losses that China may suffer in the future.

Transport by sea was around 60 times cheaper than by land, so the volume for such trips was much larger.

They are significant features of the Antarctic where they account for 10 of the volume of the ice.

The income tax (and thus the tax on employment) is high. But the country is relatively wealthy, especially in terms of property assets on household balance sheets.

In the 1990s, the Djibouti economy deteriorated dramatically, with net external assets falling by 40 per cent.

So you tell me the size of a mammal, I can tell you at the 90 percent level everything about it in terms of its physiology, life history, etc.