Word: firmness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2010-2019
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ailing Dutch giant for $103.7 billion. But while both RBS and Fortis are now on the casualty list themselves, Santander's $17 billion stake in the Brazilian wing of ABN Amro is worth about $49 billion after merging with Santander's existing business in Brazil. In 2007, the firm spent just under $10 billion for Italy's Banca Antonveneta, which it promptly sold off for a $3.74 billion profit. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
Santander still has to prove itself in the U.S., however. In 2006, the Spanish firm spent $2.9 billion to buy 25% of Sovereign Bancorp, a regional bank in the northeast. By October 2008 Sovereign's stock had fallen 85% and Santander exercised its right of first refusal to buy the remaining 75% for $1.9 billion. Now it has to hope Sovereign is worth more than the peanuts Santander paid for it. "If a bank is strong, it is not for sale. Banks are sold, not bought," says Juan Rodríguez Inciarte, Santander's director general and an architect...
...Last November, a polling firm with close ties to the White House, Greenberg, Quinlan Rosner Research, released a memo warning of the punishment that could await Democrats at the polls in 2010 if unemployment remains high and no steps are taken to deal with voter concerns about the deficit. The memo also cited polling showing many voters may be sympathetic to populist appeals. When asked to choose from a list what makes them most upset, 40% of respondents chose the phrase "big banks and Wall Street getting handouts while nothing is done for working Americans" as either their first...
...movie-mad audiences are a vital growth market. Domestic box-office revenues are expected to grow from their $2.5 billion today to over $4 billion in 2012, according to a 2009 entertainment-industry report by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the accounting and consulting firm KPMG. In the past, American studios operating from the Bollywood capital of Mumbai were limited by relatively few outlets; in 2005, there were only 13,000 single-screen cinemas in a country with 1.2 billion people. But India's real estate boom and 9% economic growth rate...
...final instructions. He waited five minutes on a grassy patch near a gangly group of bougainvilleas for the hit men to come and kill him. In the days leading up to his death, Rosenberg bought a grave site for himself and one for Marjorie Musa. He left his law firm, turning over control to his law-student son. And he purchased a beach house on Guatemala's Pacific coast for his family, according to investigators and family members. "For someone like my uncle to be driven to this extreme, he must have been incredibly frustrated," Rodas says. "He must have...