Citic, a Chinese bank, this week said it had considered bidding for a stake in Bear Stearns, a Wall Street firm whose share price has slumped thanks to hefty mortgage exposure, though no deal was imminent.
Profits at SMG, owner of Scottish TV and Virgin Radio, have slumped by a hefty 28% with the company predicting no "material recovery", blaming the prospect of war and the continuing advertising recession.
Coming on top of the erosion of consumers' purchasing-power by soaring oil and food prices, the housing slump looks set to inflict some hefty collateral damage.
A move for the 25-year-old would make sense, even though United will be forced to pay a hefty price to bolster a squad that has slumped to seventh in the Barclays Premier League, with virtually no chance of retaining their title.
The company, which specialises in flares, ejector seats for fighter planes, detection systems and explosives, has seen its shares slump 34% or 77.5p to 149p after a hefty profit warning and news of a £90m fundraising.
That sounds like a hefty increase for a domestic research agency when the economy is in a slump, a war against Iraq looms, and the budget deficit is growing.
A bigger share of those fees are coming from major European airlines, which have struggled with Europe's economic slump and stiff competition from low-cost airlines that have reaped hefty revenues from passenger fees for years.
On Friday, Sun Microsystems reported hefty double-digit profit declines in its fiscal fourth quarter, which ended June 30, as slumping sales to big U.S. companies and restructuring charges weighed down sales.
The price was an estimated $4.2 billion, a hefty valuation based on an option agreement signed back in 2007, before the economic slump took the wind out of the commodities sector.
The Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan's biggest carmaker, posted hefty gains in domestic sales and production in August, while its rivals Nissan and Mitsubishi slumped.
