But each of the businesses tumbled, leaving behind a trail of lawsuits, unpaid taxes, and angry investors and lenders.
Since then the share price has tumbled, leaving the banks sitting on losses – in UBS's case £240m.
News Corp and its ilk have a vested financial interest in reducing the BBC's scope and influence in the hope that the edifice will tumble, leaving a gaping hole in the market for them to fill.
He says: "News Corp and its ilk have a vested financial interest in reducing the BBC's scope and influence in the hope that the edifice will tumble leaving a gaping hole in the market for them to fill.
Grab a handful and if you can squeeze water from it -- it is too moist - add dry manure or grass clippings, tumble, leave for a week and test again.
The latest tumble leaves bitcoin down more than 40percentt from the record high around $20,000 it hit in mid-December, wiping about $130 billion off its "market cap" - the unit price multiplied by the total number of bitcoins that have been released into the market.
Sometimes they fall, and the camera coyly turns its attention to tumbling rocks, leaving us to ponder the marketability of an extreme sports movie without extreme accidents.
But by this point, the makers of "We Shall Remain" have shifted the focus and the weight of history, and the old labels, prejudices and assumptions come tumbling down, leaving only a chronicle of powerful and shocking events.
Each time stocks appeared as if they would bounce back, more selling sent them tumbling again, leaving all three market gauges near their lows for the day at the closing bell.
But they sent the dollar tumbling and left monetary conditions far too loose in many emerging markets whose economies had long been growing beyond their sustainable pace.By 2008, according to the IMF's estimates, emerging economies were growing above their trend rate for the fourth year in a row and had more than exhausted their spare capacity.
