State owned companies also need profits to finance their investment, so there's no fundamental difference there.
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Admittedly, state-owned banks still make loans to state-owned companies, but these behemoths are not the innovators in China 2010.
He recommends investors hold low risk, highly rated bonds of state owned companies.
While most airlines around the world are faltering, state owned Etihad is growing.
They are dominated by state-owned enterprises, which can count on cheap loans and energy from China's state-owned banks and utilities.
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The only sources of loans were the four large state-owned banks, and loans available were reserved for the large state-owned companies.
Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have been helping Chinese State owned enterprises consolidate and raise public capital.
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The large state-owned banks have only been comfortable lending to other big state-owned and have been reluctant to provide loans to private SMEs.
During the defiant speech, the Sudanese leader told citizens that "Heglig is in Kordofan, " referring to a border state owned by the nation.
That said, China's government is trying to improve transparency by increasing the degree of private ownership in many of the larger state owned firms.
The last few years have witnessed the rapid growth not just of the Chinese economy but in particular of the Chinese state owned enterprises (SOEs).
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Alternative lending is popular in China because state-owned banks tend to favour large companies, particularly state-owned enterprises, leaving small and medium-sized companies starved of credit.
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It is owned by a local state-owned company, Nakheel, a subsidiary of Dubai World, and fed with daily shipments by a Chinese state-owned company, COSCO.
An ambitious forest engineer who had executed a turnaround at a state-owned coal operation, his biggest challenge was to rid SQM of its inefficient state-owned mentality.
Which would make a number of state owned banks very happy as that IPAD trademark is now considered the only remaining valuable asset of Proview itself.
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Worse, national governments have protected their domestic state-owned (or majority state-owned) companies from direct competition, while encouraging them to buy their way into strong pan-European positions.
Since January 2012, previous State owned broadcasting media (Radio Gabon, RTG1 and RTG2) became media of public service broadcasting under the name Radio Gabon and Gabon Television.
The agency that now regulates the state-owned firms, called the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, should "confine itself to policy-making and oversight, " the report recommended, not management.
The majority of the companies listed on the mainland's two stock markets in Shanghai and Shenzhen are state owned firms and only small portions of those companies are traded.
For example: OGX was supposed to be the new Brazilian Petrobras, a state owned juggernaut that exists more as a policy instrument than as an oil and gas explorer.
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Meanwhile, the telephone network is usually in the hands of a state-owned (or formerly state-owned) monopoly that is reluctant to cannibalise corporate high-speed Internet access revenues by offering cheaper broadband.
Much of the money comes from a group of corporate sponsors and investors that includes state-owned lender OAO Sberbank, state-owned oil giant OAO Rosneft and oligarch Vladimir Potanin's holding company Interros.
Still, consultants say given that most of these Chinese bank units are state owned, there is less pressure on them to find new avenues of growth than on their Western peers.
Yukos Oil has been broken up and sold to Russian state owned energy companies, with the bulk of those assets acquired at a discount by Rosneft, the largest oil company in Russia.
It is too easy to forget to note that any payment made by a UK state owned bank is spread over 3 years an can be reclaimed if the bank delivers disappointing results.
Earlier this month, in fact, China state owned oil company Sinochem bought a 40% stake in natural gas and oil fields once fully owned by Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) of Texas.
China banks were down around 20 percent in the first half of the year, thanks in part to concerns over non-performing loans on the books of the big state owned banks lending to real estate builders.
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State owned German banks doing so?
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The only companies that had money back then were the large state-owned enterprises that were able to borrow all they wanted from the four large state-owned banks, or perhaps go public on one of the new stock exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen.
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