After derivatives set off the near-downfall of several prominent Wall Street firms during the financial crisis, Washington is now cracking down on the unregulated $600 trillion market.
In the search for economies, Mr Ellison even cancelled the firm's Christmas party.ReprogrammedThe cause of Oracle's near-downfall was a sales force that was out of control and had a habit of booking business which never materialised.
Meredith Whitney, the Wall Street analyst who predicted the near-downfall of Citigroup, warned that major banks would have to write down a further $44bn on their balance sheets in the final quarter of the year.
A.I.G. also said that it had finished an "active wind-down" of its financial products division, the unit whose derivatives contracts tied to subprime mortgages — a portfolio with a notional value of more than $1.6 trillion at one point — led to the company's near-downfall.
It was the beginning of a major shift in the way the public thought of Trump, and it also preceded his first near-downfall.
With 600 pages of metafictional shenanigans in relentlessly brilliant prose, The Bone Clocks hits lots of hot buttons, from the horrors of the Iraq war to the Eternal Battle of Good and Evil to the near-future downfall of our civilisation.
As Mr Morsi's downfall drew near, his enemies across the region could barely contain their glee.
You could say that Winona Ryder's 2001 "downfall" was near inevitable she was imperfect in a Hollywood that celebrates and supports Gwyneths, Jennifers, and Sandras.
In the near term, if Milosevic's downfall is completed, the EU will lift economic sanctions, which have been in place for ten years.
His downfall and the near-total eclipse of his reputation were the sad result.
His swift downfall has been met with near rapturous schadenfreude.
