Word: coreness
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...particular risks that brought the company to the brink of bankruptcy seem to lie not with its core insurance businesses but with its derivatives-trading subsidiary AIG Financial Products. AIG FP, as it's called, merits a mere paragraph in the nine-page description of the company's businesses in its most recent annual report. But it's a huge player in the new and mysterious business of credit-default swaps: derivative securities that allow banks, hedge funds and other financial players to insure against loans gone...
That could happen. But another possibility is that loan losses will continue to grow to the point that the core institutions of the American financial scene - Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America in particular, but also possibly Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley - are seen as endangered. Then we'll really get to see what a bailout looks like...
...signs, as markets avoided chaos and the company itself appeared close to selling its asset management arm to a private equity firm. There were also reports that Barclays, which had decided over the weekend not to bid for Lehman as a whole, might still be interested in buying the core of Lehman's business, its broker-dealer operation...
...disease-specific iPS lines will soon be deposited in the new HSCI iPS Core Facility at Mass. General Hospital to be produced on a larger scale for distribution among the scientific community...
...Even though he was released without charge, the Wakanoho's arrest shook the sport to its core. The rikishi escaped charges only because the amount of marijuana in his wallet was smaller than the threshold for legal punishment in Japan. At a news conference, Wakanoho cried, repeatedly apologized and asked for a reinstatement. But a sport whose rituals and conventions are so intimately tied with a traditional sense of Japanese identity is not so easily able to forgive the Russian's transgressions. He was told by the Japan Sumo Association (JSA) that reinstating him was impossible. On September 11, Wakanoho...