Sentences with phrase «of the largest business failures»

The problems were exacerbated by energy marketers, including the criminal Enron Corp. (on the verge of one of the largest business failures in U.S. history), which were able to manipulate the opaque PX to their financial benefit.

Not exact matches

«The absence of [traditional bank] capital is the largest reason for new business failures.»

These failures shocked shoppers, however it was the end of Sears Canada — once one of nation's largest and most profitable department stores — that rocked shoppers and business owners alike.

My reading of the episode is that the extraordinary financial events of September and October 2008 — several large financial failures, large - scale rescues of major institutions, enough incipient systemic concerns about banking systems to lead governments to issue guarantees, investor panic on share markets — were all observed in real time by households and businesses right around the world.

«Any failure in our ability to appropriately and timely process and address a large number of identity - related events taking place at the same time could result in a loss of members, harm to our reputation, and other damage to our business.»

Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Association, the region's largest business group, warned that a new Belmont arena would cannibalize show opportunities and put the Coliseum project at risk of failure.

But you could also have a large amount of debt from an extended period of unemployment, a business failure, or from a major medical event.

You exchange a higher cost of doing business (higher interest fees) and a higher risk of total failure, for a larger number of rents and thus higher potential earnings.

On Feb. 11, 1985, the cover page of Forbes thundered, «The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale.

Our Fort Lauderdale employment lawyers also have successfully defended businesses in claims claiming failure to pay commissions and salaries and have prevailed in cases seeking class certification for collective actions for potentially large groups of former employees seeking back wages.

The SBP took the action on account of the following risks: • Virtual currencies are highly volatile, unstable and the prices are primarily based on speculations; • The failure and closure of virtual currency exchanges and businesses for any reason, such as action by law enforcement agencies; and • The number of security compromises of virtual currency exchanges and wallets worldwide in which large amount of funds have been lost.

An in - house recruiter for a large company actually told one of my resume clients that his most recent experience — running a successful small business for 13 years — «makes me suspect it was a failure, otherwise you'd have stayed with it.»