But since it is also seen as a financial asset, higher values are a signal to buy.
What is debt to Washington is a financial asset for you and me.
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If you're buying a financial asset, you're exposed to the skills, or the lack thereof, of the people running those businesses.
When the price of a financial asset rises, demand generally increases.
Last year's budget agreement tacked an additional six months onto the time an individual must hold a financial asset in order to have the lower capital gains rate applied instead of the regular income tax rate.
You continue to assume that hiring even ditch diggers has no positive effect on output, which it does, and then argue that the debt becomes a burden on the private sector when it is, in fact, a financial asset that they have added to their portfolio.
To alter the metaphor, it was rather like an Olympic athlete on steroids: basically impressive, but made to look even more so by the artificial stimulus of a financial-asset boom.
Adding a financial debt and an equivalent financial asset to a community will cause the elimination of both when summed.
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Mr Key, a 47-year-old former Merrill Lynch investment banker, has highlighted his financial-sector experience as an asset in a political leader at a time when an understanding of complex financial issues is paramount.
The result will be massive JGB selling, a collapsing yen, and systematic financial crisis resulting from a collapse in yen asset prices.
During a financial crisis, central bank asset purchases are much less likely to create inflation, and the factors that make that so are the same factors that make the absence of asset purchases so destructive.
Once the banks repurchase the spiffed up dirty loan laundry, it not only has turned a nifty 90-percent-or-more profit on the turn around, it also has a new asset it can put back into the stream of financial commerce at a price reflective of its true value.
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Obviously, Sybase is not enough to make SAP entirely relevant in scope and scale (and it goes without saying that in this land of giants, Sybase was not large enough to survive on its own.) But it picks up a solid asset, with businesses in financial modelling and mobile databases that are essential for SAP to stay in the game.
Ping An's ambition is to move beyond insurance and become a financial conglomerate by further developing its banking and asset management units.
Jonathan Harrison, for example, CEO of the B Corp Emerge Financial Wellness, wants to create a new asset class called the workplace loan, which he believes is a sustainable way to move millions of under-banked and unbanked workers into the financial mainstream.
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The reason is that such a document spells out a logical asset allocation given one's financial goals, discusses the historical levels of volatility inherent in the chosen allocation and mentally prepares the investor for the harsh reality that periods of "black swan" events do happen.
Although there has been a substantive increase in the household income, financial asset-holding and the access to and quality of public services since the first free elections in 1994, the current (2011) unemployment rate is 21 per cent and over two-thirds of the population still live below the poverty line.
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Government bonds are used as a broadly risk-free asset against which other financial instruments are priced (see article).
Some financial buyers could simply regard it as a wasting asset that can be used as a cash cow to fund other activities.
Cleveland Police have set up a dedicated Financial Investigation Unit, which is committed to asset confiscation and officers are now issued with laminated cards, highlighting key points to consider when dealing with suspects.
The Bank of New York Mellon Co. is a financial holding company, providing investment servicing (like asset servicing, issuer services, clearing services) and investment management services to institutional investors, which includes mutual funds, collective investment funds and other investment pools, corporate and public retirement plans, insurance companies, foundations, endowments and investment managers, around the world.
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Michael is a respected financial planner and publisher who adamantly believes that tactical asset allocation is not market timing.
Under the current federal aid formula, money in a 529 savings account owned by a parent counts the same as any other nonretirement parental financial asset.
In connection with the earnings report Lehman released on June 16, 2008, the firm published a detailed financial appendix breaking down its balance sheet by various asset groups.
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For some families, having savings in a 529 counted as an asset lessens the chances of getting financial aid.
Headquartered in New York, Blackstone is an asset manager of alternative investments and a provider of financial advisory services.
Some of the new financial instruments also confront investors with a problem largely absent from traditional asset-backed securities: moral hazard.
Nagging in its mind must also be the impact on financial and economic stability of a later and far bigger crash in asset prices.
Expanding the ECB balance sheet put a floor under asset prices and restored confidence in the entire European financial system, much as had happened in the U.S. in 2009.
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