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For big banks that want to remain major players, this move is going to force them to make strategic mergers, just like 1998.

Foreign central banks will continue to buy Treasuries, so I am a little bullish. Yields may drop below 4.30 percent in the short-term.

Foreign central banks are doing precisely the same thing -- and in much larger magnitudes than our own Federal Reserve. Therefore we should be focusing a lot more on the influence that they are having on our markets and our economy,

Foreign and Russian companies should have equal conditions of competition. If a foreign bank or insurance company wants to work on the Russian market, it can establish a subsidiary here. This entails higher standards of operation but equal conditions for all market players.

Sallie Krawcheck

For banks to be global, they need to -- in their estimation -- have a strong securities presence. For companies to have a strong securities presence internationally and globally they have to have a strong presence in the U.S.

For banks, their number one is protecting the impression of trust. If they lose that impression of trust, that bank goes out of business. It's that simple.

For a country like Turkey, National Bank would have a target ROI rate range of 15% to 17%.

They hadn't done bank records, so nobody could tell you exactly how much cash they had on hand. Nobody could reconcile the payroll accounts. Nobody could tell you how many employees they had.

They filed for bankruptcy some months ago, so this is something that is not completely unexpected, though we had hoped they would be able to work through their business issues and keep going.

The yen's strength is a shackle for the central bank that keeps it from shifting monetary policy. There's a risk bond yields will decline in the long run.

The yen is weakening so much versus other currencies. The pace of decline of the yen is causing stress and strain within Asia, where central banks may be showing some concern.

The yen is benefiting from a reversal of bets on yen-carry trades on concern the New Zealand dollar will fall. The unwinding of that trade also is going on amid speculation the central bank is getting closer to raising rates.

The Yellowstone River is a national treasure, but building these homes right on the river sets the table for massive bank stabilization and flood control projects in the future, and wrecks the very reason people want to live there in the first place.

The year 2006...is also the last transition year after China's World Trade Organization entry for the domestic banking sector. Doing good work this year in banking supervision has special and important meaning.

They are back here again, hundreds of them. Swallows barn swallows, tree swallows, banks swallows, rough wing swallows all birds that normally would have gone a long time ago.

This ought not be a debt that is subject to the bankruptcy proceeding.

This means that these 18 countries should only be the beginning, ... The World Bank and IMF should extend debt cancellation to all poor countries if they are serious about poverty alleviation.

There was speculation more members would vote for a shift in monetary policy. The bank decided to keep policy with a 7-2 majority and that will make people feel comfortable purchasing bonds.

Whitney Cummings

There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping, and I locked my keys in my car, which wasn't insured. My wallet was in there, and I couldn't call AAA, because I only had $7 in my bank account. It was one of those moments where I was like, 'O.K., I literally have nothing right now.'

There was investment bank selling today on the rally up to $479. You are seeing profit-taking.

There was a tremendous sense of betrayal on the part of the employees because they had bought into the philosophy of being independent and that bank had been so successful, ... To a person, there was a sense of loss.

There will always be an opportunity for boutique banks, based on the number of new ones starting up all the time. It does not mean boutique banks will go out of existence.

There were index adjustments. And since Royal Bank was increased, (index fund managers) had to buy more of that and sell something else,

There were definitely people putting bets on the Singapore dollar in anticipation of the central bank making a change in policy. They've clearly been disappointed.

There were a bunch of rumors. One was that the bank had a lot of exposure, unspecified, to the California utility industry. The other one had to do with some kind of exposure to credits in Europe on the derivative side. As soon as I heard it, I thought it sounded like someone who was short and needed to cover and didn't want to get hurt. It was so weird and vague.

There was yen strength on the anticipation the Bank of Japan could be changing its monetary policy. Those expectations have been curbed.

Willie Sutton

There was the South Ozone National Bank looking as though it had been waiting for me.

The Republic Bank is a distinguished and state-of-the-art organization that realizes the benefits of digital video surveillance in today's workplace. I am pleased that we have been able to extend our international banking presence with an industry leader such as Republic Bank Limited.

There isn't any legacy carrier in the nation that can say with certainty that a bankruptcy filing is not possible.

The report was taken with a sigh of relief, and since its release we've seen demand for banks and financials increase.

The report was taken with a sigh of relief, and since its release, we've seen demand for banks and financials increase.

The report suggests we're one step closer to the Bank of Japan's exit from its current loose monetary policy. That's negative for Japanese government bonds.

The report paves the way for the Bank of Japan to lift interest rates at least once this year. The Japanese economy gives no reasons to restrict the bank's successive rate increases after the first one.