It threatens to engulf Italy, severely testing the bloc's financial ability to handle the crisis.
If a company has deep pockets (meaning it's flush with cash), or it has the financial ability to take on more debt, it may seek out viable acquisition candidates as a means of growth.
Although this particular study did not look at reasons that the parents were or were not providing their children with supplements, Shaikh points toward two main factors that may be at play, which she finds equally challenging: lack of parental financial ability and lack of public health education for parents of lower income families.
On the other hand, women often lack confidence and consistently rate behind men in understanding financial products and their perceived ability to make financial decisions, according to USA Today.
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" And this "could materially affect our financial condition and ability to carry out our business plan.
The lack of effective internal controls could materially adversely affect our financial condition and ability to carry out our business plan.
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But giving each financial firm the ability to voluntarily structure themselves into two halves might allow banks to stay globally competitive while carving out that mythical realm of stability yearned for by main street businesses, bank depositors, and bailout weary taxpayers.
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The supposed advantage of a financial conglomerate is the ability to meet all of its customers' needs, from personal loans to put options, in one financial supermarket.
Despite the Government loan guarantees, American bankers said that they were worried about the declining ability of the Soviet Union to pay its bills and that their own financial problems had limited their ability to make loans to anyone.
Given our strong financial position and ongoing ability to generate cash, we are well positioned to continue investing in our future.
All of those are feasible goals (I suppose), but you have to understand how your financial decisions affect your ability to achieve them.
Consumer-driven health care means (to me) that consumers have more financial responsibility and more ability to decide how their health care dollar is spent.
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For me, one critical skill of a financial adviser is the ability to listen to the client and move into his shoes for a certain period of time.
These companies realize that when fuel is the centerpiece of financial viability, their ability to buy fuel at the lowest cost possible is imperative to a winning strategy.
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In financial services, the ability to drill down into data and find something that is out of whack on a mobile device and then send an email will be prized.
That they are shoring up a firm too small to pose a systemic risk betrays a continuing lack of confidence in the financial system's ability to absorb even modest shocks.
These two examples from my work as an expert witness in securities litigation illustrate an important point about risk: We must learn to distinguish between our own willingness to take financial risk and our ability to do so.
There are about 5 billion mobile phone users in the world, and MasterCard is providing them access to traditional financial services like the ability to transfer funds, pay bills and purchase goods and services at brick-and-mortar stores or through e-commerce websites through a device they already own.
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What can managers do to motivate employees when they have lost the previous ability to provide financial incentives?
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With a unique ability to deliver financial products and services to low-income, female entrepreneurs, WWB is considered a global icon in the industry.
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"If there's a killer app for online brokers, it's their ability to aggregate financial data in one place, " says Gregory Smith, an analyst at J.
But holding credit card debt rather than medical debt could hinder your ability to get financial assistance if you run into trouble paying your bills.
Examples include moving capital among sub-units around the world, or the ability to gain financial benefits derived from broad international scope, via access to low cost sources of capital.
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Advisers say that before revealing too much information, parents should assess where their children stand in terms of their level of financial responsibility, resilience, ability to think in an adult way and adjust to a potential windfall.
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The American Dream is being buried under the cumulative weight of regulations that are making it harder than ever for individuals to start and run the small businesses that provide jobs and impeding the ability of community financial institutions to support these businesses.
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Not having to consider Basel III would allow European financial institutions additional time to solve their problems while creating less stress on the institutions ability to lend to non-financial businesses.
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Through financial institutions: A rising market disproportionately makes business better for banks and other large financial institutions, which increases their ability to lend.
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The recession is severely straining cities' ability to meet their financial needs, according to a recent report from the National League of Cities.
Scottish Widows said it painted "a bleak picture" of people's ability to cope with financial shocks that could hit now or in the future.
The drive is being fed by concerns over the U.S.'s financial position and Washington's ability to defend its Asian allies long-term, these diplomats and analysts said.
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