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So far he hasn't said he is putting his money where his mouth is by increasing his stake in Goldman.

But a lot is at stake in trying to overcome the current crisis of confidence.

The company might have to write down its stake in the unprofitable Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) [NSN. UL] venture, Kaeser said.

The Treasury's latest investment will not give it a common equity stake in GMAC, but a previous loan of $884 million could.

But so far the company has announced just one deal: selling its stake in the London City Airport for an undisclosed price.

The company said the deal will not be contingent on any completion of a deal with Yahoo, which has a 40% stake in Alibaba Group.

It has facilities in China, but the ambassador said he had no stake in the company and little knowledge of its Chinese operations.

It is not clear how much money Huawei could raise from a sale of a stake in the division, which is being arranged by Morgan Stanley.

But China's leaders have no desire to turn that limited stake in Pakistan into a heavy security footprint.

His estimated personal wealth is at least $320 million, based on his stake in the company.

by strong political opposition . If Chesapeake were to secure Chinese investment for a substantial stake in an onshore U.

RBS was forced into a government bail-out a year later, and UK taxpayers still hold an 83 per cent stake in the bank.

Whether less high-profile investors in Asia are ready to take a stake in Manchester United bonds remains to be seen, however.

That may have distracted American investors briefly; once they realise how much is at stake in Italy, it will not help.

The U. S. bank is also considering buying a stake in a Chinese bank as its next step, when China relaxes limits on ownership, he said.

CITIC told Reuters it had held no formal talks about buying a stake in Lehman. A Lehman spokeswoman and a KDB spokesman declined to comment.

Citigroup's newly-acquired controlling stake in Guangdong Development Bank, with more than 500 branches, gives it a fair shot.

But he insisted China would not link the two issues, and that Beijing had its own self-interest at stake in continuing to invest in Europe.

Even if it buys no more shares, the state will increase its economic stake in the company, a sort of partial de-privatisation.

"Wanhua would like to acquire an equity stake in Borsodchem and to eventually take control, " said one person familiar with the matter.

The breakthrough deal was the first time the Bank of China, which has 130m customers, has taken a stake in a eurozone financial institution.

Part of the aim was to establish a standard that all the factions had a stake in, and thus suppress the RSS wars.

But he has also said he would sell the stores to GOME, possibly in return for equity, in order to increase his stake in the company.

Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said he was "not aware of any concern" over Huawei taking a stake in 3Com.

ICBC, say, might come with a much larger customer base, but a 20% stake in such a giant would be beyond even China Mobile's deep pockets.

They set up a sharpened stake in the square beside the harbour, stripped the hapless hero naked and lowered him on to it.

China Development Bank, the policy lender, entered the fray with the purchase of a $3bn stake in Barclays of the UK a year ago.

Just as an aside, not everyone seems to agree that our purchase of a strategic stake in the Bank of Shanghai was all that momentous .

Fabela said he expected GM to keep a stake in Saab until the unit reaches profitability, which he said would probably take three years.

The German government, which retains a 32% stake in Deutsche Telekom, is not helping, at least not in public.

That afternoon, Thain met Lewis ready to discuss the sale of a minority stake in Merrill Lynch.

others said the sale could be a sign that Yahoo was losing control of its stake in Alibaba.

When Telenor refused to pay, arguing that it had not exhausted its appeals, another court seized most of Telenor's 30% stake in VimpelCom.

BBVA said it had not made a final decision on whether to increase its stake in China's seventh-largest lender by assets.

It is hoping to heap pressure on the bank and any other potential buyers to consider giving supporters a stake in club.

Being able to give employees an equity stake in a more liquid market than Amsterdam could make it easier to attract and retain talent.

The president said the U. S. as a Pacific nation has an enormous stake in the ASEAN region.

Incentives: as contractors with no stake in the company, the contractors have no incentives to perform exceptionally.

Citigroup is considering a plan in which the US Treasury Department would sell its 34% stake in the bank, The Wall Street Journal said.

"It's a reminder that the entire international community holds a stake in preventing this kind of terror from occurring, " he said.

An agreement reached when China Netcom acquired its stake in PCCW in 2005 had in effect given it a veto over any large share sales.

A person familiar with the matter said Panasonic will likely be forced to reduce its stake in the venture.

When human survival is at stake in the short-term, the response is usually either flight or fight.

a sloping pit with a stake in the middle used as an obstacle to the enemy.

By the time the frantic talks concluded last Sunday night, Mr Cayne's stake in Bear, worth more than $1bn a year ago, was reduced to $14m.

He also reported closing out his stake in several companies and introduced a handful of new companies from various market sectors.

And he failed to grasp that the only way to get Congress to support far-reaching entitlement reform is to give both sides a stake in change.

Forbes said that in Angola, the president's daughter sits on the board of Banco BIC and is reported to own a 25% stake in the bank.

If the parent company decides to sell only a minority stake in the business, the exercise is called a partial spin-off.

What's at stake in that fight, above all, is the question of whether we'll take action against climate change before it's utterly too late.

Hu was arrested a month after Rio Tinto rebuffed state-owned Chinalco's attempt to double its stake in the company.

Buying a stake in SPDB could smooth the path for China Mobile to being able to offer such a service.

Nor is the value of your company tied to the whimsical sentiment of investors, including those that have no stake in it.

True, some Chinese question the intimate connection to the U. S. , just as many Americans bristle at the large Chinese stake in our economy.

PetroChina said on Friday it would pay up to $1. 4bn for a stake in an oil group in neighbouring Kazakhstan.

Eight years ago she inherited a 25% stake in one of the world's greatest brewers, Heineken NV, from her late father, Freddy Heineken.

Another alternative might be to sell a strategic stake in the company to an outside business, such as a Chinese state-owned steel company.

News Corp. 's variety of lousy governance is simple -- one man exerts control wildly out of proportion to his stake in the business.

In 2005, the bank advised Royal Bank of Scotland on the acquisition of a stake in Bank of China, and eventually invested alongside it.

China has a huge stake in the global capitalist economy that Islamic terrorists aim to overthrow. And China, like the U.

When Danone, a French food giant, acquired a 51% stake in Wahaha Beverage, a Chinese firm, in 1996, it considered it a coup.

The Rio deal would give Chinalco as much as an 18% stake in the Anglo-Australian miner as well as direct stakes in a number of its mines.

The US bank is planning to sell part of its 9 per cent stake in China's second biggest bank, people familiar with the matter say.

Mr Wang said the stake in the lender would give China Mobile a bigger share of eventual profits from lucrative mobile payments.

Also this decade, China became the world's largest economy and thus has a major stake in the environmental destiny of the planet, he said.

The company is investing Rmb1bn for a 5 per cent stake in a state-backed project to build China's first large commercial jet.

No country has more at stake in a vibrant WTO than China, yet Beijing has been scandalously unwilling to help push for a Doha deal.

AIG has received more public funds to stay afloat than any other firm, with the government owning an 80%-stake in the company.

That means we have a stake in working together to solve common problems, rather than trying to browbeat or intimidate the other into action.

Its stake in PAE is one of the company's most prized Latin American assets.

Still, concerns that foreign investors will likely sell part of their stake in the bank hang over ICBC.

With its large population of Pakistani origin, it has much at stake in helping to maintain the stability of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

CDB already owns a stake in Barclays Bank and is in the process of transforming itself into a commercial lender.

The next day eBay sold a 65% stake in its internet-phone unit, Skype, for $1. 9 billion, to a group of private-equity investors.

RWE, a German utility with a larger stake in a different grouping, denies rumours that it may follow suit.

Thanks to his analytical approach to the marketplace, it seemed, Merrill shareholders could look forward to a stake in Bank of America.

For, as we just saw, the fact that Adam was being tested means that something was at stake in what Adam did with that tree.

The company wants to sell part of its stake in the giant Prudhoe Bay field, the newspaper reported.

Rich characterizations invite you to look more closely at each crew member's personal stake in the sprawling galactic backdrop.

Saudi prince Faisal (see photo) said he is close to securing a 50% stake in the Liverpool Football Club.

A JPMorgan fund is in talks to acquire a substantial stake in Twitter, one of the fastest-growing social networking sites.

It said yesterday that, after two years, it would be able to swap its stake in PCCW for shares in China Netcom.

They provide answers to the issues at stake in terms of energy optimization, comfort of interiors and indoor air quality.

The resource constraints which led to a more inclusive government gave each clan a stake in maintaining stability.

Mr Ho would have held a small indirect stake in the Sentosa resort as a result of his holding in Star Cruises.

But a spokesman for the NBA said Mr Huang has never owned a stake in an NBA team or even been involved in discussions to invest in any team.

China's CIC seemed to have scored when it paid $3 billion for a stake in Blackstone, a private-equity group that listed its shares.

He stressed Vodafone did not expect to obtain a majority stake in a Chinese wireless business, because of government control.

Experts do not view Toshiba's increased stake in the nation's largest nuclear power company as a national concern.

Prudential Financial Inc. has a minority stake in the bank's brokerage unit, created in a joint venture in 2003.

Shares in Porsche rose after the Gulf state of Qatar agreed to take a stake in the the German carmaker.

Given the breadth of issues at stake in our relationship with China, this ambassadorship is as important as any in the world, " he said. "

Mr. Buffett, who says he has no ownership stake in Dayang, especially likes that his new suits are wrinkle-resistant.

Nestle has said it was bound by an agreement not to increase its 29% stake in L'Oreal until six months after the death of Ms. Bettencourt.

So, I just wanted to take a few minutes to talk about why every American has a stake in Wall Street reform.

Yes, and it still is: the Italian carmaker did not purchase GM, but a 20% stake in Chrysler, recently increased to 25%.

Typically, you first start with stakeholder requests, which are the general needs of those who have a stake in the finished product.

Chinese government officials say a state-run investment group may bid for a stake in U. S. investment firm Bear Stearns.

The people said the U. S. government is expected to reduce its stake in the automaker from 61 percent to around 43 percent in the sale.

That Bain now has a substantial equity stake in the company is a welcome byproduct of the recent shenanigans.

He also advised Chinese investors bidding to acquire a 15 percent stake in the Cavaliers, although the deal did not work out.

If the big industrial countries had something at stake in curbing the excesses of currency imbalance, the prospects might be more positive.

This may convert into as much as a 49% stake in the bank next year, diluting shareholders.

But so far Fiat (and soon Chrysler) CEO Sergio Marchionne is only open to a 10% stake in the merged Opel-Fiat company, according to Reuters.

But it would spend the same amount over a longer period for a complementary stake in Citic.

The ADB is also prepared to take a small equity stake in private sector ventures.

So, I wonder, what attracted him to the competing issues at stake in South of the Border and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps?

It's an important company in the framework of Japan Inc. , and virtually everybody has a strong stake in its success. '

Mr Buffett was speaking a week after announcing that Berkshire Hathaway had sold its entire stake in PetroChina, the Chinese oil group.

The UAW will have one director on the board of the reorganized GM and a 17. 5 percent stake in the company.

They get a stake in the assets they really want. And BHP didn't rule out a merger further down the track.

Many of those deals saw Sinochem take a passive minority stake in the oil assets, but the group is now reaching for outright acquisitions.

In spite of the fact that Porsche owns 51% of VW, massive debts have forced the company to abandon its attempts to increase its stake in VW.

Where does this leave Chinalco as it decides what to do with its 12 per cent stake in the UK part of the dual-listed miner?

"I choose chaos, " says the Joker, and those words sum up what's at stake in The Dark Knight.

A month earlier, Chinese oil-exploration company Cnooc paid more than $3 billion for a stake in a major Argentinian oil-exploration company.

Murchison sold a 9. 2 per cent stake in Midwest to Sinosteel for A$135m just over a week ago.

If you take responsibility away from children, they have no stake in the outcome and learn to follow orders over problem-solving.

It has also taken a stake in Canary Wharf in London.

He accused the West of 'low-quality politics' in Syria, saying that Russia no longer had much of an economic stake in that country.

Meanwhile, speculation increased that Comcast, a cable-TV operator, would make a deal for a majority stake in NBC.

The lavish lifestyle was made possible in part by a $200 million loan secured by his stake in the Beatles catalog.

This was eventually granted but only on condition that Oji turn over a 10 per cent stake in the project to a Chinese joint venture partner.

Once they were elected to Congress, the Tea Party congressmen had a stake in the system.

The investment is only the second by China Investment Corp, which bought a pre-IPO stake in Blackstone, the US private equity firm, in May.

But there is some comfort in the notion that the problem is at least contained, supported by the government's 43% stake in the group.

The bank had signalled its retreat from the region last month with the sale of its $2. 4bn stake in Bank of China.

Not just the fate of a tyrant but the reputation of Europe and America is at stake in Libya and the Middle East.

The bank last November acquired a 20 per cent stake in Guangdong Development Bank, the southern China lender.

In 1998 it bought a stake in a search engine called Snap. com, which ranked for a while above Google.

Digital Sky Technologies, now known as Mail. ru, agreed to buy up to $100 million in stock to increase its existing stake in Facebook.

The bank plans to record a gain of about $16bn on its existing stake in the fourth quarter.

Huang tried to foil Bain's attempt to increase its stake in the company in August 2009, by taking part in a rights offering from prison.

American International Group decided to float a 58% stake in its Asian insurance unit after a sale to Britain's Prudential fell apart.

China yesterday let slip one of the worst kept secrets of the summer: that Citic Bank is considering buying a stake in Bear Stearns.

Disney's stake in the endeavor hasn't been disclosed, though the company is expected to hold a minority interest.

Investors will also be allowed to hold a 50% stake in new joint ventures.

The company says there are now plenty of potential investors and Morgan Stanley has agreed to take a 10 per cent stake in the project.

It is unclear whether the U. S. government will take an equity stake in Citigroup in return for providing a financial backstop.

But a middle class with a stake in how the country is run barely exists.

That was followed a few months later by a $100m purchase of a 14 per cent stake in an Ecuadorean oilfield.

The latest deal could see the government ending up with a 36% stake in the bank through the conversion of preferred stock to common equity.

This investment gives them a 9 per cent overall stake in Rio which enjoys dual listing in London and Sydney.

In June Sinopec agreed to a C$8. 3bn (US$7. 2bn) takeover of Addax, which had a stake in the Kurdish Taq Taq field.

I'm only in the stock market to raise money to open more stores and to give our employees a stake in the company.

The larger the group of cornerstone investors, the easier it would be for the Treasury to sell a big chunk of its GM stake in the IPO.

There may be tension between the two, but on a daily basis each has a stake in working effectively with the other.

Bouygues SA's management reported that the company had acquired a majority stake in SAUR.

He says this was to buy a stake in a hotel company that was priced in dollars and insists that he was not speculating against the peso.

Chinese companies have been talking about taking a stake in miner Rio Tinto, the target of a bid from BHP Billiton.

'Boeing is obviously the most concerned as it has a huge stake in commercial aircraft sales to China, ' Ms. Glaser said.

One sign of this was China's purchase of a 9. 9 per cent stake in the US finance house Blackstone on its flotation last month.

The two institutions combine for a 55% ownership stake in the company.

Cnooc did a similar deal with Chesapeake in October for a stake in a shale oil and gas project in Texas.

The world and its businesses have a stake in every bit of this drama.

Afscme owns a very small stake in Citi and has not tabled a formal proposal calling for a break-up.

By creating a strong middle class and raising incomes, we have given our citizens a powerful stake in their society.

I've a stake in this company and don't wish to see it go bankrupt.

However, trusts have the flexibility to be able to provide funds in other ways, such as by taking an equity stake in development projects.

At the beginning of this year, it signed a joint-venture agreement with the Chinese company, giving Li Ning a 20% stake in the new venture.

Alibaba is expected to complete the repurchase of the 20 percent stake in the beginning of the fourth quarter.

Morse said the sale of Yahoo's stake in Alibaba. com contributed 4 cents per share to earnings.

The Thai authorities reacted badly to Temasek of Singapore's purchase of a telecommunications stake in their country.

Last month, Zendai cashed out of a significant portion, reducing its stake in the property to 35% and bringing in three new investors.

Star India grows aggressively. News Corp has taken a stake in Rotana, one of the Arab world's biggest media companies.

DST Global, the investment firm led by the Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, owns roughly a 7 percent stake in the company.

The air cargo deal follows an earlier abortive bid for a stake in a start-up airline.

Coke said it would also be on the lookout for acquisitions, citing its recent $44 million stake in British smoothie maker Innocent Ltd.

Ikonic's plans come as other media and entertainment companies battle for a stake in one of the world's fastest-growing markets.

In return, Chinalco buys its way up to a 47 per cent stake in the Rio-Chinalco joint venture.

America's Treasury announced the next step in its plan to sell its remaining stake in Citigroup.

In theory HSBC has the right to increase its stake in BoCom to 40% if regulators approve, but it is far from clear that they would.

So far, Rio has financed the project in return for a growing stake in Ivanhoe.

Donald Guthrie states that nothing less than the character of God is at stake in this passage.

It is understood the broadcaster, long known to be looking for a buyer for its 9. 9% stake in the club, is in talks with three suitors.

He assured me that he had no financial stake in Horton's painting.

The supervisory board of Porsche gave the go-ahead for the company to increase its stake in Volkswagen from 31% to more than 50%.

Billions of dollars more are available for growth capital investments, when funds take a minority stake in a business.

News Corporation already holds a controlling 39% stake in Sky, which grew out of a business that Rupert Murdoch built in the 1980s.

Softbank has roughly a 4% stake in Yahoo but, as planned, expects to have sold almost all of it by month's end.

The company's international profile soared even higher last September when Warren Buffett bought a 10 percent stake in the company.

Each with a stake in the heart, then burn them both.

Generally, but not always, the operator will have the largest financial stake in the project.

While GM doesn't own a controlling stake in Wuling, underestimating the unit's importance to the Detroit auto maker would be a mistake.

Last month, it lost out to General Mills in the auction for a 50 per cent stake in Yoplait, the French yoghurt maker.

Were the German government even to consider taking a stake in Opel, other German carmakers would cry foul.

Warren Buffett, who holds a 9% stake in Kraft, insisted the company had done "a bad deal" .

It is true that oil is not the only interest Britain has at stake in Libya.

Clifford Chance is acting for eS un Holdings and its subsidiary, both in the litigation and the sale of its stake in the venture.

But Israel and Hamas aren't the only forces with a stake in the conflict.

Mr Banga pledged that Citi would keep its stake in HDFC, which he described as among India's "best run financial institutions" .

Although few Americans realized the fact in 1900, the United States had a vital stake in the peace of Europe.

On Friday, state-owned Sinopec Group said it has signed a deal for a 30% stake in the Brazilian unit of Portugal's Galp Energia.

At stake in the current debate are the terms on which immigrants will be accepted.

He would tell the people the truth about their stake in preserving peace through the League of Nations.

But the main reason that the farmers' income has grown three-fold is their stake in a highly productive chestnut orchard.

A 2009 bid by the state-owned Chinalco, the top Chinese aluminum producer, to take a stake in the mining company Rio Tinto was abandoned.

In Singapore, KKR is reported to have paid $114m for a stake in a wastewater treatment company to gain access to the Chinese market.

But bondholders have balked at proposals that they forgive debt in exchange for a 10 percent stake in a restructured company.

Then it was said to be competing with Exxon Mobil for a stake in a big field off Ghana.

The high degree of state ownership also meant that "the man in the street has a stake in the recovery of our business" .

LaCava left the business in hopes of making the 2012 U. S. Olympic rowing team but still owns a stake in the company.

Huawei's employees, whose average age is just 31, are known for working long hours to increase the value of their stake in the company.

TravelJigsaw's management retains a minority stake in the company and will stay on to manage its next stage.

Today it was announced that Spain plans to take a partial stake in its troubled Caja banks.

The Citigroup-led consortium aims to take a majority stake in the bank for Rmb24. 1bn, with the US bank taking 20 per cent.

The Brazilian government has a minority stake in Petrobras's equity, but a majority of the voting shares.

The Royal Bank of Scotland also recently sold its stake in the Bank of China.

High on its list would be its 60% stake in Argentine oil and gas producer Pan American Energy, and assets in Colombia and Venezuela.

Li. American investor Warren Buffett earlier this year invested $230 million through a company he majority-owns to take a 10% stake in BYD.

Every citizen has a stake in the emergence of the United States as the leader of the free world.

Relatively undemanding milestones will quite soon take Fiat's stake in Chrysler up to 35%.

They also advance Norway's goal of securing a replacement to the Kyoto protocol, by giving poor countries more of a stake in the process.

Once, businesses would have turned to venture capitalists , who put up money in return for a stake in the enterprise.

"Selling ownership for a stake in the business is likely to become more prevalent. "

Wale reiterated the U. S. automaker's interest in raising its stake in the venture but made no further comment on the issue.

The size of the potential stake in JAL is unclear; under Japanese law, foreign carriers can't take more than a one-third stake in JAL.

Wynn Resorts, the casino operator controlled by Steve Wynn, is raising up to $1. 6bn by selling a 25 per cent stake in its Macao operation.

The Treasury holds a majority stake in Royal Bank of Scotland and a substantial slice of Lloyds Banking Group.

Arcelor first said it would pay US$900m for a 38 per cent stake in Laiwu nearly two years ago, before its merger with Mittal.

AIG's previous disposals include a majority stake in reinsurer Transatlantic Holdings Inc. , a Tokyo office tower and an equipment insurer.

Encourage your associates to hold a stake in the company.

If News Corporation, which has a controlling stake in Sky, buys the rest of the satellite broadcaster it will acquire enormous sway.

And if Cohen gets his minority stake in the Mets, he could be an intriguing addition to the management team.

Reports from Japan say two American carriers are interested in buyingthea stake in the company.

In September, Berkshire invested $230 million in BYD for a 10% stake in the company.

It acquired a majority stake in ITX, a cellphone retailer, whose boss was the brother of Global Company's boss.

Some analysts questioned whether it was worth it for DreamWorks to give up a 55 percent stake in the venture.

If the assets are sold at a loss, the government could receive an added stake in the bank.

An American group, CHC Healthcare, holds the controlling stake in a general hospital being built in Cixi in coastal Zhejiang province.

"We are pleased that the TravelJigsaw management team has elected to retain an ownership stake in the company as we move forward together. "

Morgan Stanley had hoped to use its initial stake in CICC as a springboard to build its own local securities firm.

Temasek is understood to have rebuffed the advances because it considers its stake in StanChart to be of financial and strategic importance.

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Also, the state-owned China Energy Conservation Investment Corp. (CECIC, Beijing), recently bought a 47. 5 percent stake in the company.

A Chinese bid or purchase of a large stake in Rio Tinto would test Kevin Rudd, Australia's Labor prime minister, who speaks Mandarin.

China has offered to complete the road, but only in return for a stake in Kyrgyzstan's gold industry.

Now you have five investors of which at least a few will be vying to take a larger stake in your next round.

The process will allow the U. S. government to start reducing its 60. 8% stake in the company.

When China's state investment fund took a $3bn stake in Blackstone it bought non-voting shares and did not have a seat on the board.

HSBC has continued its expansion into fast-growing Asian economies by buying a majority stake in an Indonesian bank.

The US government will buy the bad mortgage debts which triggered the crisis in exchange for a stake in the banks they rescue.

And the aversion to tech was further diluted by the purchase last quarter of a small stake in Intel.

The company has three major business units anda 50% stake in the Rockwell Scientific Company.

The co-operation could involve partnerships in steelmaking ventures around the world or the Luxembourg company taking a stake in Angang.

Similar concerns stopped CDB from taking a huge stake in Citigroup, as the US financial group desperately sought fresh sources of funds.

Mitsubishi UFJ took a stake in Morgan Stanley and seized control of an American retail bank.

The idea of the U. S. government owning a stake in any part of GE might seem outlandish.

The plan involves a loan in return for an 80% public stake in the company.

Chinalco has set the bar high, particularly with the price it is paying for a stake in Rio's Escondida copper mine in Chile.