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- Amaranth Advisors - Amaranth Advisors LLC was an American multistrategy hedge fund managing US$9 billion in assets. In September 2006, it collapsed after losing roughly US$6 billion in a single week on natural gas futures.
- New Songdo City - New Songdo City (, , Songdo shin-dosi) is a planned international business center to be developed on 1,500 acres (6 km²) of reclaimed land along Incheon's waterfront, 40 miles (65 km) south of Seoul and connected to Incheon International Airport by a 6 mile (10 km) highway bridge. This 10 year development project is estimated to cost in excess of $24 billion, making it the largest private development project ever undertaken anywhere in the world.
- Mongstad scandal - The Mongstad scandal was the nick name given to a crisis in the Norwegian oil company Statoil in 1987-88 where the company exceed the NOK 8 billion budget by NOK 6 billion in upgrading the oil refinery at Mongstad. Retrospectively the reasons for the overexpenditure were credited bad planning, technical miscalculations and bad project management.
- David Murray (CEO) - ... Murray (born 1949) is an Australian businessman who was the Chief Operating Officer of the Commonwealth Bank for 13 years until his resignation in 2005. In David Murray’s 13 years as Chief Executive, the Commonwealth Bank transformed from a partly privatised bank with a market capitalisation of $6 billion in 1992 to a $49 billion integrated financial services company, generating in the process total shareholder returns (including gross dividend reinvestment) at a compound annual growth rate of over 24 per cent, one of the highest total returns of any major bank in Australia.
- Abell 2029 - Abell 2029 is a large cluster of galaxies a billion light years away in the constellation Serpens, close to its boundary with Virgo The central galaxy (IC 1101]) is perhaps the largest known, with estimates ranging from 5.6 to over 6 million [[light years across; contrast this with the Milky Way, which is 100,000 light years across.