In ten days Goldman raised billions in bank and debt financing.
Also, according to a senior Palestinian official, Olmert also agreed to remove some military checkpoints in the occupied West Bank in coming days.
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Inside a nondescript apartment building on a Tokyo waterfront, Fumiaki Sagara spends his days sitting in front of a bank of eight computer screens trading stocks.
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In the old days, it was still respectable to run a bank in the George Bailey tradition, taking deposits for your customers and making loans to them.
True, Americans are less likely these days to keep their savings in the bank, preferring money-market funds.
In the past few days, Royal Bank of Scotland has found similar problems.
Nationally, the time taken to process a foreclosure from default notice to bank repossession averaged 414 days in the fourth quarter.
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The market place, overall, remains quieter as traders and investors await key central bank meetings in the coming days.
In a recent study, the World Bank calculated that in Indonesia it takes an average of 151 days to complete all the paperwork required to start a company, against 30 in Malaysia and eight in Singapore.
The impressive run in gold in recent days signals the potential for greater central bank accommodation worldwide.
The charity is launching a new food bank in the UK every three days and expects this growth to continue until 2015.
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That is a spectacular long-shot bet, but heavy if more modest bets against the Wall Street investment bank have been piling on for days in the options world.
The U.S. has not spoken publicly about possible compromises in recent days, though there has been some speculation it would propose a partial construction stop in the West Bank heartland, east of Israel's separation barrier.
The equity deal was completed in a record 51 days, but nobody at the bank celebrated.
Bank of America profited from a big options bet it made on an alcohol-company stock days before the beverage maker announced an acquisition in which the bank was the lead lender.
He will spend two days in Israel and a just a few hours in the West Bank.
These were the basic gaps that prompted the Grameen Bank and others like it in their early days.
Members of the train drivers' union Aslef are planning a 24-hour walkout on Sunday, claiming they should be given three extra days' pay and a day off in lieu for working the bank holiday.
Although access to bank loans in Ghana might be relatively easier these days, she advises that budding entrepreneurs should take care not to borrow too much.
Check: To be deposited in your bank for it to be cleared within three working days.
Most of the president's time during the next three days will be spent in Israel, but he also will visit the West Bank and Jordan.
The charity said 12 sites would be manned seven days a week from Saturday due to an expected rise in visitors during the bank holiday weekend.
On one of my final days in England, I made my way on blistered foot to the south bank of the Thames, past the site of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, to the place where my grandparents had made their balloon trip.
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The recent debt crisis in Dubai revealed how jittery the markets remain after the dark days of gigantic bank bailouts.
Bank ACL or wire take days, and we know who profits in this time, neither party involved in the transaction, just the middlemen.
According to the World Bank, it takes up to 120 days to incorporate versus 6 in the U.S., with startup costs running ten times what they do in China.
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Fifteen years ago Frankfurt aspired to become a global financial centre, but these days German financial giants such as Deutsche Bank and Allianz do much more business in London than in Frankfurt.
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