firm

Web firms see such indicators as something of a sideline.

He said the council had asked international legal firms to track the money.

Financial firms in London are shedding jobs, but so are retailers in high streets up and down the land.

She said a large share of the dropoff can be attributed to financial services firms, which historically have had large internship programs.

He said the watchdog needs to gain entrance soon to China to inspect firms that audit U. S. -listed companies.

China has recently opened up to private equity firms, as foreign firms have finally been allowed to raise yuan-denominated funds.

Firms had to be sure that systems were kept updated to block loopholes that worms exploit, he said.

Law firms are not allowed to practice legal chicanery or to solicit business in other inappropriate ways.

Sequoia went on to urge the executives to cut costs fast so that their firms would not run out of money before becoming profitable.

After trials with several local institutions, the government is now opening the door to a few foreign firms.

Practicing associations of two or more foreign practicing lawyers or law firms that share neither the profits nor the risks.

Two other research firms report that the U. S. is still the top smartphone market by volume, although China is not far behind.

Mr Obama's subsidies for green technology fattened the bottom line of a few chosen firms but did very little to spur jobs.

The value of these options is often neglected in the traditional evaluation ways for the target firms in capital operational activities.

All this has enabled Indian firms to take advantage of a rare, if not unique, set of market conditions.

At this point the need for firms to streamline some of the text, or to narrow the appropriate font.

In fact, cut-throat competition at home is at least as responsible for driving Chinese firms overseas as Beijing's grand vision.

India's technology firms seem to be maturing, with a combination of fierce competition and rising wage costs putting pressure on profits.

But she conceded that this was a private matter between two private firms.

One can only wonder why the Japanese firms did not see sense earlier and merge among themselves to strengthen their positions.

Multinational firms trying to woo Chinese consumers have so far concentrated on the country's thriving coastal regions.

"We continue to see legislation that effectively taxes firms for taking on extra staff, " she said.

"Overcapacity and strong competition leaves few firms with the ability to fully pass these higher costs on to final goods prices, " he said.

The concept of external economies is essential to understand efficiency advantages which small firms derive from clustering.

But a new accounting rule is leading firms to consider how much their holdings would be worth if they had to sell them today.

That firms complain more about corruption may be a good sign if it means they are becoming less tolerant of it.

Those that did not lay off any lawyers have frozen hiring and squeezed more work out of their staff. So morale is dismal at many firms.

A few days later the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) added that the latest increase would have "serious implications" for firms.

Even if the heavyweights stumble, smaller firms are ready to take up the baton.

Firms that come up with faster and fancier services should be able to charge a premium, just as delivery companies and airlines do.

But the better managers nonetheless get hired by the bigger firms, just as the best entertainers sing to the largest audience.

Foreign firms are increasingly allowed to participate as investors in the ownership as well as the management of these projects.

Small firms not swept up in the various deals would be able to auction manuscripts .

The one big difference was that the Bank of England let Overend fail, and take down other firms with it in the ensuing panic.

Discouraging transactions was frowned upon, especially at firms trying to push their way up capital-markets league tables.

Wolf is a frequent critic of China and he said Chinese firms with links to the Beijing should not win U. S. Government contracts.

But the need to balance investment with protection for Indian firms and workers should be relatively easy to solve, Mr. Bhoothalingam said.

Chinese firms had long-term plans, Cole said. "The West will pay the price of that at some stage, " he added.

On a call with reporters, Mr Khuzami said the team was looking at other instruments, some of them no doubt structured by other firms.

Recent legislation strengthens oversight of the firms but fails to clarify the public purpose of the GSEs' portfolios, he said.

America's financial system is now dominated by a few dozen firms that are assumed to be too big to fail.

Second, students will be sent to work for a week with one of more than 140 firms in 11 countries.

These firms seem to have run out of energy to play the game of worldwide consolidation that accompanies globalisation of markets.

This would be an astonishing upheaval for what was one of Europe's hottest firms.

The German Research Centre for Geosciences is in the midst of a more detailed assessment, backed by oil firms.

Other firms that have survived the slump in retailing in reasonable shape also seem to be looking for indebted competitors to snap up.

It has been a world-wide common view that R&D tax incentive plays a very effective role in encouraging firms to increase R&D investment.

So far IT has been used to automate and optimise processes within firms and other organisations as well as the dealings between them.

Apple is not because there is nothing that it makes that cannot be replicated in a number of other countries and by other firms.

Dell, which did not disclose terms of its purchase, said on Tuesday it does not plan to buy any more security firms.

It also means that start-up firms lacking the deep pockets of incumbents should be able to get a foot in the door.

Many fired employees now throw in dubious whistleblowing claims, he says, in an attempt to persuade firms to settle out of court.

It is one of a handful of firms that offer such insurance, a big selling point for banks trying to attract wealthy customers.

Firms will have to go abroad for growth and will need domestic scale to be able to contemplate this.

America's mess, even if it has already led to the demise of famous Wall Street firms, is far from finished.

Firms tracking the money companies withhold for tax purposes warn that job growth seems to have stopped.

Firms are trying to draw in younger passengers and families with lower prices, as well as things like ice-skating rinks and cinemas.

He said half the business done by his firm's China offices involves Chinese firms investing overseas.

Big Four firms signed off on the audits of a number of Chinese companies that have since got caught up in accounting scandals.

The Chinese state-owned firms did not need capital so badly that they were prepared to cede control to foreigners.

Marketing Alliances . A marketing alliance is a functional alliance in which two or more firms share marketing services or expertise.

Owners of pachinko -parlours (venus for a popular sort of pinball) and others now hire security firms using former policemen.

Critics say such munificence is just a way for Chinese firms to get a leg up over competitors in the scramble to lock up Africa's resources.

however, returns for acquiring firms do not always live up to expectations .

He said the lending to foreign firms was especially striking and demanded 'an extensive look. '

So, despite forecasts that other Chinese Internet firms would rise on Google's fall, the figures show Baidu is so far the only winner.

The FASB wants to force firms to publish detailedinformation about what they might get sued for and how much it might cost them.

McCain and Barack Obama have sparred over ties to lobbying firms and financial institutions caught up in the Wall Street turmoil.

A generation of bosses who founded their firms after the war are ready to retire but lack successors.

Firms locating in London can tap into a huge specialist financial workforce drawn from both domestic and foreign sources.

As a result of all this, Soucy International of Drummondville, Quebec, one of the firms that makes the tracks, reports booming business.

If one of the big four international accounting firms collapsed, some large quoted companies might be stuck without an alternative.

Firms that provide relatively high wages and good working conditions do not seem to have problems attracting employees.

These policy commitments had been an important factor in the bulging market capitalisations of green-energy firms two or three years ago.

It is also easy to see why the firms got into such a mess.

It isn't clear how much the banks and securities firms knew about the disarray at the Libyan fund.

At least in founder-run firms, you know who the boss is.

Enron itself, along with a host of other firms, collapsed in 2004 because accounting standards had not been enforced adequately.

After all, there was a time, not so long ago, when people ran their businesses without the help of strategy consulting firms.

He said the two carmakers would be restructured, turned into smaller, but stronger firms.

"You don't have to have been a CFO to make a good CEO" , the head of one of the UK's "big four" accountancy firms tells me, "but it helps. "

Other member firms picked up the offer, leaving Mizuho with a large short position that it had to unwind at great expense.

I reject this thesis as a false choice (and I come from a family who doggedly built one of the world's largest firms in its sector).

Still, Chinese firms don't seem to be at the point yet.

French business confidence, which had briefly flowered, wilted as well; and Italian firms have sunk further into gloom.

Still open, too, is the issue of how much Microsoft can charge firms that want to license its protocols.

There is often less criticism of western private equity firms than of private Russian enterprises.

He focused on the 'repo' market, in which firms sell assets in exchange for cash to fund operations, often just overnight or for a few days.

However, evidence suggests that, at least for the acquiring firms, acquisition strategy may not always result in these desireable outcomes.

He said sensitive data on government computers had been targeted, along with defence, technology and engineering firms' designs.

French business confidence, which had briefly flowered, wilted as well; and Italian firms have sunk further into gloom.

Still open, too, is the issue of how much Microsoft can charge firms that want to license its protocols.

There is often less criticism of western private equity firms than of private Russian enterprises.

He focused on the 'repo' market, in which firms sell assets in exchange for cash to fund operations, often just overnight or for a few days.

However, evidence suggests that, at least for the acquiring firms, acquisition strategy may not always result in these desireable outcomes.

He said sensitive data on government computers had been targeted, along with defence, technology and engineering firms' designs.

Much of that money was spent through entrenched Washington lobbying firms like the Podesta Group and the Franklin Square Group.

Firms did not realise when they shifted operations to low-wage countries that some moves "would be almost irreversible" , says Mr Pisano.

IT HAS been a year to make even Croesus blush for the big Wall Street securities firms.

Firms of the size of Riversdale are small enough for any number of potential bidders to be able to contemplate buying them.

Chinese firms faced something of a popular and political backlash in Africa, and some warn a similar dynamic may be rising in Europe.

Owning to the special nature of accounting firms, the quality of its work directly influences a healthy development of the capital market.

Indeed, in earlier cycles, private equity firms have been aggressive about trying to reform ailing financial groups.

AIA's IPO has 11 bookrunners-firms that help banks in charge of the sale sell the shares to investors-people familiar with the matter said.

One focus is whether expert-network firms leaked inside information to hedge funds and others, according to people familiar with the matter.

Fleischer said the United States also is concerned that Russian firms have sold night-vision goggles and anti-tank guided missiles to Iraq.

It has been a tremendous relative benefit to big business, and a barrier to entrepreneurs and small firms.

'Decisions on my personal and business banking are kept completely separate, and I manage my money with three different firms at the moment.

Indian firms have made much of their ability to serve the poor masses at the "bottom of the pyramid" .

You're seeing real estate firms shutter, sales offices closed down. Some of the engine behind the boom is at least beginning to sputter.

You're seeing real estate firms shutter, sales offices closed down. Some of the engine behind the boom is at least beginning to sputter.

Suppose one of these firms turns out to be a high performer, while the other one is low performer.

Each works for a major U. S. search firm and won votes from at least three rival firms for being one of the top recruiters in their country.

The next day, Japan unveiled a ¥ 5 trillion ($51 billion) package, much of it supposed to go directly to families and small firms.

"Sure, it would be better to have more grades, but law firms have got to roll with the punches, " he said.

Firms were keen to invest on the back of healthy profits, solid foreign demand and hopes of a pick-up in consumer spending.

According to what he said, the money is divided equally by some firms.

Advertising firms will, no doubt, be just as keen to measure heartbeats, especially for ads designed to get pulses racing.

Every week, one of the new generation of internet firms seems to attract a sky-high valuation.

One reason, he said, was that he could squeeze out some $4 billion in cost savings from the two firms.

One reason, he said, was that he could squeeze out some $4 billion in cost savings from the two firms.

Even before BHP and Rio decided to team up, China had been trying to undermine the pricing power of the big iron-ore firms.

Many of the firms you'd recognize, but a few you might not and a couple we pitched are essentially out of the VC business today.

This helped to release India's telecoms industry from state control and opened it up to private firms, paving the way for a technology boom.

Especially touchy will be the question of state assistance for Chinese firms, potentially giving them an advantage over Western competitors.

He said the U. S. wanted to make progress on protecting intellectual-property rights for firms operating in or exporting to China.

His central insight was that firms exist because going to the market all the time can impose heavy transaction costs.

Its tactics seem to have been copied from America, which in 2006 struck at online-gambling firms by threatening the banks that they used.

Facebook apps have generally been a bit of a mixed bag for travel firms since the social network's API was opened to developers in mid-2007.

For those firms that depend on trading, it is clear how much the engines of Wall Street have slowed.

For those firms that depend on trading, it is clear how much the engines of Wall Street have slowed.

Japanese firms' return on equity has long been less than half that of American and European companies.

In 2011 American bank bosses will start trying to reverse one of the biggest mistakes their firms made over the past two decades.

But only in recent years has the act been used to target tech firms whose products, or user data, might have been used to trap activists.

Both firms insisted that if they did not get the money, bankruptcy would end up costing the taxpayer a great deal more.

Mr. Yu didn't seem to be offended but he argued that he was an extremely busy man, and that state-run firms aren't what they used to be.

In some parts of Guangdong, local government teams have even been set up to monitor suspect firms to ensure their owners do not disappear.

This could be a global or a regional player, but buy-out firms would be unlikely to match the profile, he said.

Not to be excluded are at least two other private equity firms that have requested J Crew's financial records.

If it meant a shrinkage in its trade surplus, a Chinese slowdown would be good for those European firms that compete directly with it.

If it meant a shrinkage in its trade surplus, a Chinese slowdown would be good for those European firms that compete directly with it.

So I decided to apply to these firms to see if they were where I truly should be.

The official added that "this does not mean the firms has to be profitable but clearly . . . the firms have to be profitable soon. "

Even large, sophisticated firms failed to understand fundamental characteristics of the book business.

It tracked the financial well being of firms with two or more women on their boards in 1995 to see where they stood six years later.

He said the largest financial firms reported that top executives wouldn't receive cash bonuses in 2009.

By marking down the shares of renewables firms, the markets seem to be assuming that the government will indeed ignore it.

These officials favour hiring international fund management firms to help invest at least some of the $60bn.

Until California recently have passed a law, American firms did not have to tell anyone, even the victim, when data went astray.

Even if refinancing were available for endangered firms, it would be prohibitively dear. It is only a matter of time before some go under.

She had no illusions that this acceptance held true in a majority of business firms, or for women generally.

That's because higher prices at home make China's firms less competitive abroad, just as if their currency had gone up.

There has been a stampede of foreign firms into the Mainland China as a sequel to market liberalization within the WTO framework.

Another big problem has been that firms have only been able to borrow for a few days at a time, if that.

Gross Sales The overall sales which are not adjusted for discounts or returns. Gross sales is usually used for consumer retail firms.

The flash-crash report provides some vindication for high-frequency trading firms, which had been widely blamed for the mayhem that day.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA), which supervises individual firms, will be recast as a subsidiary of the Bank of England.

Curious to hear who, if anyone, you think might be next (talking U. S. firms, primarily, here).

That ban has since been lifted and executives say that well-run firms will be allowed to launch two new products a year.

He said the central bank will also propose easing restrictions to allow micro lending firms to borrow money.

Media reports said the terms of the deal are expected to boost prospects for other private electricity firms to build new power plants.

Not the sort of in-depth info we'd get in an IPO prospectus, but still much more than most other privately-held firms disclose.

He said it was inevitable that some cutting-edge firms would fail but that over all, the investments would prove worthwhile.

'The advice we and most other banks are giving private-equity firms is 'get ready to take advantage of the market opportunity.

He said he was now talking with several drugs firms about creating the anti-baldness product.

Those companies do not exist in a vacuum - they do business with other firms who will also be hit if they start to rein in their spending.

Optimism over the potential that such firms seem to offer has not been damped by the downbeat outlook for equities markets next year.

Moreover, PR firms are beginning to encroach on territory that used to be the domain of advertising firms, a sign of their increasing clout.

So efficiency tends to decrease with increasing size once firms have passed the point where they can take full advantage of mass production.

It is one of at least three firms in a scenic area known locally as 'Happy Valley' that specialize in scraping.

for fear the agents of other firms should be able to trace the kind of research they are likely to be undertaking.

With Mr Jobs gone, Apple is just one of many technology firms trying to invoke his unruly spirit in new products.

But some firms are "stuck in the middle" , offering a "bit of both" , he said.

Dale is one of the few firms that casts metal type for use in handset printing, and has provided her with a supply of virgin type.

Firms that provide these things may be prepared to chip in towards the cost of the music service in return for customer loyalty.

Later firms used their own darkrooms and would offer to have the prints ready to buy at four o'clock on the same day they had been taken.

Some pocketed immense bonuses when they falsely appeared to be doing well, and then kept much of the loot when their firms collapsed.

A worldwide area structure tends to be favored by firms with a low degree of diversification and a domestic structure based on functions.

Jeff urged me to do it, saying it would assure me a good clerkship with a federal judge or a job with one of the blue-chip law firms.

"Private equity firms are investing in fewer companies and able to take fewer out in public markets, " said Deignan.

These business fundamentals "make it a promising market for U. S. firms, " according to the release.

So Mr. Summers favors tighter rules on how much debt financial firms can take on.

This is why IT firms are always trying to move "up the stack" into software and services, where margins are higher.

Among the flurry of deals were the listings of three of the world's largest financial institutions and one of its biggest industrial firms.

It was only a question of time before one of the three firms tried to apply these emerging-market lessons in the West.

The result was that even those private-equity firms with access to capital found that deals were not as cheap as they might have hoped.

China was supposed to provide a lucrative outlet for global private equity firms trying to wring returns from portfolio companies back home.

Meanwhile, Western oil firms, in particular, are struggling to produce any more of the stuff than they did two or three years ago.

Some, though, think the ban on for-profit firms setting up free schools might have to be lifted.

And of course, you know, who do you blame? I mean, a lot of the firms that are pushing some of these IPOs that come public?

The document said the trustee, Daily &Knudson LLP, was founded in 1995 and is 'one of the most famous law firms on the West Coast. '

However, some banks may already be nearing the limits of how much they can lend to rail-sector firms, if not the ministry.

How much to tax firms and households, and.

It sounds like just the sort of trick they might have picked up from private-equity firms.

And for those betting on emerging millionaires, western luxury goods firms might be the best Christmas present available.

The globalization of Chinese firms has been getting faster and its scale bigger, giving CDB International broad scope to develop, ' he said.

This suggests that firms that are able to relay clearly their message to the public will be in a pole position to attract shoppers.

The Bank of England has been focusing on an underlying measure of broad money, which excludes holdings by specialist financial firms.

But the big internet firms seem to have been worryingly complacent .

partnerships that have translated into a number of homologations for models from all the leading automotive firms.

One potential answer is to set up a clear system for haircutting creditors to financial firms, to inject market discipline into the system.

The missing ingredient was a clean-up of the banking system, on which Japanese firms were more dependent than their American counterparts.

Some of these firms use summer employment as an opportunity to look over promising newcomers to the profession.

Consulting firms are popping up to help clients design profitable auctions or win them less expensively.

JBIC, a lender charged with helping Japanese firms doing business abroad, would be the first foreign-government entity to take such a step.

Officials had become more alarmed about the positions of both firms as their share prices continued to fall in recent days.

Among the biggest cash hoarders were firms in Great Britain, where government debt has been a major concern.

Bill Lacey of the South African Chamber of Business worries that this places a heavy burden on small firms.

[font=Verdana]For now, most of the top brass at the global car firms are just watching and waiting to see whether Tata can pull it off.

One senior investment expert at one of the country's biggest independent financial adviser firms admitted he had not even heard of them.

For almost a year, the currency's increasing strength weighed heavily on the results of American IT firms by devaluing foreign revenues.

The comparison is inexact. Nothing like as much money is going into clean energy as went into telecoms and internet firms.

Recently, they have continued to grow because firms could not think of good ideas for putting the capital to work.

AT A recent shindig in London of the shale-gas industry, energy firms gave a rosy view of the fuel's prospects in Europe.

What has been gathered so far appears to be private information held by a few property insurance firms.

But a survey to be released next week concludes that U. S. firms might not be doing as well as they could be.

The privatisation represents a step towards the British model, in which private firms run trains on a state-owned network.

He is simply not aware of any talks between the two firms, she said.

The beneficiaries seem to be large firms, where loans are growing four times as quickly as at small ones.

Mr Semel's other defence is to use the growing fear of Google among "old media" firms to engineer alliances designed to contain the enemy.

Firms would be allowed to deduct immediately the cost of all spending on long-term equipment rather than depreciate it over time.

They temporarily brought down the websites of credit card firms Visa and MasterCard, as well as that of the Swedish government, last week.

Vladimir Putin has all but shut the door to big western oil firms with his recent clumsy effort to create a state-run oil giant in Russia.

This penalty sends out a strong message to firms of all sizes that they must ensure client money is segregated in accordance with FSA rules.

But he said that profits at some firms were still "in great decline" , adding, "the grave international environment affected our exports" .

There is no doubt that oil at $200 would have dire consequences, both for Chinese exporters and for other firms.

If PPR were to challenge LVMH more directly, the result would be further tussles over the few remaining independent luxury-goods firms.

Japanese firms, which have had to make do with less power since the earthquake, were particularly eager.

Indeed, emerging-market banks continue to set up in Switzerland. Recent arrivals include firms from Brazil and China.

The question of how responsible British firms are for the misbehaviour of contractors in other countries has been clarified.

When the same effect is produced by an agreement among several firms, the group of firms is called a cartel.

Then came a technological breakthrough in the United State, where firms found a way to free gas previously trapped in shale rocks.

That said, the going remains far from easy for private equity firms in Asia, even in Australia.

But he points out that none of the firms has so far got a pandemic flu vaccine past safety trials.

The reason: The firms failed to account for the election of a president who deemed debt incurred by a previous administration illegitimate.

Financial crises, in particular, tend to leave scars that make financial institutions, households and firms behave differently.

Hedge funds, always the most mobile of firms, are likely to be in the vanguard of any exodus.

It is the quiet predator that grows by buying all or parts of those firms that are stupid enough, or too clever-by-half enough, to fail.

In the past firms made a lot of money supplying content that was not too objectionable to people who did not have much of a choice.

Foreign firms are upbeat that this will translate into healthy growth prospects and are keen to get a foothold.

Law firms, in the past, have been among the last to feel the effects of a downturn.

The company is dedicated to serving firms around the world seeking enhancement of operation efficiency and creation of business value.

The U. S. government was reported to be preparing to set up a new entity to assist troubled financial firms.

Much of that business is currently involves large Indian firms working with Malaysian ones, competing against the likes of IBM, Kassim said.

Chinese firms have received billions of dollars worth of carbon credits, much of which has been used to fund wind farms.

They do not need especially clever technology: governments go increasingly after dominant online firms because they are easy to get hold of.

As some firms face soaring resources costs, Mr. Huang pointed out plastic bottles aren't likely to see a shortage any time soon.

But a slide into a second recession would require firms to cut back again on stocks, capital spending and jobs.

We also find that firms compose their boards as if they understand that outsider effectiveness varies with information costs.

Both firms realised that digital photography itself would not be very profitable.