high finance

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high finance

n.
The business of investment banking and corporate finance.
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Noun1.high finance - large and complex financial transactions (often used with the implication that those individuals or institutions who engage in them are unethical)
finance - the commercial activity of providing funds and capital
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high finance

nalta finanza
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It was to be expected that little men should salt gold-mines with a shotgun and work off worthless brick-yards on their friends, but in high finance such methods were not worth while.
Inability to timely pass on the increased cost of production and high finance cost eroded the Company's profitability.
Rain is only a minor event for the capital market where the game of high finance turns paupers into billionaires and vice versa - all through the day, every day
Afropop meets High Finance with Richard Mofe Damijo in a session with Cynthia Nassardine.
Clearly their years of professional experience have enabled them to infuse a clear sense of authenticity into their collaboratively written novel of journalism, high finance, and human foibles.
To fund green projects, he will target the shadow banking system which secretly shifts money around in the high finance version of back alley loan sharks.
Although it posted a 14% increase in revenue, the profit remained almost flat due to high finance cost.
No more wondering which pub he's dropped into on his way home from work, no more battles over the toilet seat, no more pandering to his ego, a tidier house, a Brexit settlement, a fair society and business, high finance and governments run with ethics and morality.
The finance minister is also bad at his job, it would appear, but before taking over, there was at least the impression that the man had a handle on high finance. What, exactly, was Vawda going to bring to the table?
This book traces the origins of the Statue of Liberty, detailing the stories of French sculptor Frederic Auguste Barthodi and his collaborator, the politician and intellectual [ETH]duoard de Laboulaye, and their travels from their places of origin, Alsace and Normandy, to Paris, Cairo and the Arabian Peninsula, Italy, and the US, in the context of international shipping and high finance, the mines of Norway and Latin America, and the arts of Japan.
It expects TBI's FFO adjusted net leverage to stay at around 6.0x in 2018-2020 (2017: 6.0x), as an aggressive shareholder return policy continues to weigh on free cash flow (FCF), which is already burdened by high finance costs and capex.
Dad-of-three Jim Ratcliffe, 65, made his money in chemicals and high finance.
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