He likes companies that are conservatively financed, and the model I base on his writings calls for a firm's debt to equal to no more than 80 percent of its equity.
A federal judge in Manhattan has ruled that Morgan Stanley Dean Witter must turn over information about complaints of race and sex discrimination at the securities firm to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Mr Sarkozy wants Suez to shed its environment division to bring the two firms to an equal size, thus preserving the size of the state's stake in the merged business.
In the red corner, Oscar de la Hoya, 32, an Olympic gold-medal winner and the owner of eight world titles in six weight classes, who is quickly becoming the lord of the business ring (his assets include everything from a boxing promotion firm to an equity stake in Equal and a new men's clothing line sold through Mervyn's).
It pushes for non-bank payment firms to have more equal access to retail clearing banks, for such things as faster payments and dealing with consumers through the Post Office, says board advisor Richard Wagner, chief executive of Advanced Payment Solutions.
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Mark Perry reports that auto plants are at capacity and the revenues of our top 500 manufacturing firms almost equal the gross domestic product of Japan (not that anyone can trust G.D.P. numbers any more).
Getting the high end chambers and top law firms to accept apprentices as equals will be the big test.
In order to examine which of these mechanisms predominates, we have estimated the effect of firm size by splitting the sample into firms below and above the median firm size (which equals 57 workers in our dataset).
Other e-mails outline the lengths to which Goldman's minions went to ensure that the firm got equal credit as an adviser to buyer and seller in the all-important rankings of investment banking firms tracked by Thomson Financial.
