Sentences with phrase «large credit crisis»

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Daily Mail: Judging by sales of Durex, large numbers of Brits have decided to hide from the credit crisis by tumbling into bed — or they have decided they can't afford children.

The 2008 credit crisis highlighted the risks associated with having large sums of money invested in opaque, illiquid assets.

One of the ironies and unintended consequences of the credit crisis is that, while fewer large brokerages remain, those that stuck around are raking in easy money from the large institutions that now have limited choice when executing trades.

In a really large crisis, the return on risk assets may look decent from ten years before to ten years after, but a lot of people get surprised by their need to draw on those assets at the wrong moment — bad events come in bunches, when the credit cycle goes bust.

1) I (Whitney Tilson) attended the always - excellent Ira Sohn conference on Monday and, as often happens, Bill Ackman and David Einhorn stole the show with two outstanding, incredibly - well - researched ideas, long Howard Hughes (which has been one of my largest positions since it was spun out of GGP when it emerged from bankruptcy after the credit crisis) and short Core Laboratories (CLB), respectively.

The organization credits the lack of physical activity and physical education for children in large part for the obesity crisis in the United States.

Interest rates in these countries are at least 4 % higher than in the U.S. or Europe and the credit quality of most of these countries is investment grade, plus the holdings of the larger ETFs are so widely distributed that unless one had a major financial crisis, similar to the Asian crisis in 1995 or the financial meltdown in 2008, one's investment should weather most isolated storms.

I'm not suggesting a credit crisis now, but it is useful to keep a list of areas where caution is being thrown to the wind — I can think of a few areas: student loans, agricultural loans, energy loans, lending to certain weak governments with large liabilities and no independent monetary policy... there may be more — can you think of any?

Easy availability of credit in the US, fueled by large inflows of foreign funds after the Russian debt crisis and Asian financial crisis of the 1997 — 1998 period, led to a housing construction boom and facilitated debt - financed consumer spending.

Miller had a large concentration in financial stocks as the credit crisis worsened.

If you can move some payments around and forestall the crisis until payday, small problems might not become big ones — but if the unexpected expense is larger than you could manage from a single paycheck, a bad credit installment loan might be what you need.

A new study concludes that cash - out refinancings and home equity lines of credit played a larger role in the financial crisis than was previously understood, by greatly expanding and «synchronizing» the pool of borrowers at risk to price declines.

That puts Canada at odds with legal precedent in the United States, where leveraged buyouts have been more prevalent over the past quarter - century and had grown increasingly large in value until the onset of the credit crisis last year put a chill on big deals.

Although the crisis was triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis in the US and the resulting global credit crunch, the primary cause of the banking crisis was imprudent lending practices by Ireland's largest domestic banks.

The deal represents the largest single borrower retail financing transaction in the U.S. since the start of the credit crisis, according to Carroll.

As the credit crisis drags on, debt - ladened General Growth Properties, the nation's second largest regional mall REIT, may have no other choice than to sell the company.

With its largest quarter - over-quarter drop since the credit crisis began, shadow inventory fell from 3.28 million loans in the first quarter of 2013 to 2.99 million in the second quarter, a 35 % drop on an annualized basis, according to broker / dealer Compass Point Research & Trading.

During the credit crunch, CalPERS» assets plunged to $ 164.7 billion from a pre-crisis high of $ 260 billion, with the mortgage meltdown and larger financial crisis wiping out nearly half the value of its real estate portfolio alone.