Sentences with phrase «height of the global financial crisis»

Since the 2008 debut race, the event has generated S$ 150 million in tourism receipts every year on average, except for 2009 at the height of the global financial crisis.

The government owns 84 % of the Royal Bank of Scotland and 43 % of Lloyds, after bailing out the two banks at the height of the global financial crisis.

Honda CEO Takanobu Ito explained that the 2012 model was developed during the height of the global financial crisis, which led the company to believe that consumers would be willing to forego upscale content and quality in new vehicles so long as they were fuel efficient and affordable.

The following chart vividly makes this point clear.At the height of the global financial crisis, the S&P 500 fell 37 % in 2008 but the consumer staples index declined by only 15 %.

The Conservative government oversaw the country's slide into deep deficits at the height of the global financial crisis after an 11 - year string of surpluses, most of them racked up by the previous Liberal administration.

In the summer of 2008, at the height of the global financial crisis, Barclays needed emergency funding.