The soundness of any investment firm depends largely on other firms having confidence that it has real assets standing behind its bets.
Precisely because it has been one of the only assets left standing, it has attracted a lot of speculative interest.
Forest resilience to climate change is a topic of national concern as our standing assets and future forests are important to our livelihood.
Sidelined in the merger game since its failed bid for MCI Inc., Qwest Communications could end up acquiring assets, being acquired or standing alone in the fast-consolidating telecommunications industry.
Now we don't even know the nature of the assets that the Treasury is standing behind.
"The EU already has looser relations with Norway and Switzerland, so their terms are the least we could expect," says Dominic Raab, a backbench Conservative proponent of outsider status.Both countries have valuable assets, boosting their confidence in standing apart from the EU.
When we keep forests standing, we have an invaluable asset in our fight against climate change.
Standing behind these promises is a $2.8 trillion asset pile, not including assets of government funds.
After the crisis their assets were shattered but their liabilities remained standing.
While capital ratios for most large and small banks tended to remain elevated with the median standing at 14.3percentand16percentcent of risk-weighted assets, respectively, as of early 2018 the median capital ratio for medium-sized banks fell to 13.2percentt from 14.9percentt five years earlier.
Indeed, a visit by the foreign minister can be an asset to an ambassador by serving to raise his standing.
