For Bombay, India's financial capital and symbol of the country's ambition, supporting the basic human needs of its citizens is a challenge of mammoth proportions.
Meanwhile, tall, flashy, new glass and metal buildings are erected downtown in the financial district – conspicuous symbols of Trinidad's oil-rich priorities.
Behind this reconnaissance mission was, of all things, a financial institution: the World Bank, symbol of globalization and, to many, the hubris of wealthy nations.
This will also be a big season for AEK, who are back in the top division, known as the Superleague, after several years away following their own financial disaster – a hopeful symbol for Greece as a whole, perhaps.
Then why, buried deep in Symbol's financial filings, do you find a discussion of "a worldwide shortage of key electronic components" which "has had an adverse impact" and could slam future results?
As a certain symbol of financial disaster in New York of course there's Bernie Madoff.
The main take-away is that regulators have embraced online financing as a symbol of financial innovation, but recognize the potential risks and highlight the importance of supervision.
It was nary a fortnight ago that the famous Charging Bull (created as a symbol of financial optimism after the 1987 stock market crash) had blue balls, and now we find it covered in a gruesome zombie salute of blood and guts.
In the early 1990s, mobile phone was considered to be a prestigious object as a symbol of financial independency [ 3].
On one level, China's $3.66 trillion hoard is a symbol of its financial might.
Goldman will continue to be a flash point and a target as a symbol for the financial crisis and greed in general.
