The process of lending money against the security of assets, or tradingassets with the banks' capital, helped to push asset prices even higher.
这个以资产证券为抵押进行贷款，或用银行本金作为交易资产的过程，助长了资产价格的进一步推高。
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If trading losses are piling up, it's time to cut back, even though there is the temptation to make more trades to recover the recently lost tradingassets.
Some lenders have taken advantage of changes in accounting rules to reclassify tradingassets as banking assets, which means that banks will take losses on those assets more gradually.