Banks around the world have been tapping investors for money as they struggle with slumping share prices and waning profits.
Since the crisis, big banks — in the face of new regulation and waning profits — have retooled their compensation practices.
Reversing a 15-year-long slide in prices, which Mr. Abe has singled out as both a cause and a symptom of waning profits, wages and consumption, is a tougher order.
In his six months in office, Mr. Abe has focused much of his energy on tackling Japan's falling prices — which he says are both a cause and a symptom of waning profits, wages and consumption — with a mix of aggressive monetary easing, government spending and economic reforms.
Business and consumer confidence is waning and profits are falling (see article).
Despite signs of a deepening slowdown in Europe and North America and waning airline industry profits, however, executives at the European plane maker and its parent, European Aeronautic Defense and Space, said they were confident the group's performance would continue to buck the broader economic downtrend.
Nomura, though it specialises in turning a profit from waning businesses, decided otherwise.The reasons Nomura gave for its change of heart are so plentiful that either the company is protesting too much, or the Dome's finances are in an even more parlous state than was previously apparent.
Now Wall Street frets that Microsoft's profit growth is waning.
As profits wane, layoffs have claimed thousands of jobs and those still employed have watched their compensation shrink.
As profits wane on the home front, Wall Street firms are increasingly dependent on the emerging markets to bolster their bottom lines.
Chairmanship of M&S is one of the most high-profile roles in the City and while Rose's tenure was marred by the row with institutional shareholders over his unorthodox role, his popularity with its legion of small shareholders never waned, even when profits collapsed in the recession.
