credit markets

When credit markets seized up in the fall, the ECB began offering banks unlimited loans at its policy rate for up to six months.

"Our read at the time was that there was more downside risk to equity and credit markets than upside, " he says.

Although confidence in credit markets appears to be rising, Geithner said the cost of credit remains too high.

A week ago, Soros said the seizure in global credit markets caused by the subprime collapse will get worse before it gets better.

Analysts said the central bank initiatives were likely to help conditions, but warned that credit markets remained jittery.

The IMF warned the turmoil in global credit markets was likely to be "protracted" , putting a brake on five record years of global growth.

Such talk, no doubt, would rattle US credit markets already spooked by the prospects of a massive US federal budget.

The result could be further instability in credit markets, which the government has been trying to thaw for more than a year.

"More capital injections and guarantees may become necessary to ensure stability and the normalisation of credit markets, " he said.

Stockmarkets might be able to rise above the problems of the credit markets.

"They rely on the credit markets and that was the downfall of Lehman and other institutions three years ago, " he said.

It may have fallen a little short on the immediate crisis around toxic debt around the credit markets, certainly around aggregate demand.

In the end, however, the banks could not make it to safety. Stymied by the frozen credit markets, they were unable to roll over their debts.

It did not rescue shares after the dotcom bust but the easing led to the housing boom and the underpricing of risk in credit markets.

Wall Street's troubles came as a freeze-up in credit markets threatened to clog the global financial system.

But that may be changing. The crisis in the housing and credit markets is beginning to affect the credit card industry.

However, that figure won't be easy to obtain as most credit markets remain extremely tight.

Asia's central banks have invested billions of dollars in credit markets since the U. S. financial crisis started to spread in September.

The world's major economists are now huddling in Washington, trying to thaw credit markets and end the global panic.

With credit markets fragile, 39% of this shortfall is being met by state-guaranteed bonds or help from the Bank of England.

With credit markets thawing, CIT hopes to be able to restructure its debt at more affordable rates in coming months.

Credit markets have begun tightening up a bit, but let's stick with that figure.

And in the short term at least, money that was pouring into the credit markets is now being invested in shares.

But, those models haven't sheltered the banks from the subprime mortgage crisis that turned into a dislocation of the credit markets.

Around this time, the global economy entered free-fall as the sub-prime mortgage crisis exploded and credit markets ground to a halt.

Ford escaped the fate of the other two Detroit carmakers by tapping credit markets just before they began to freeze over.

Nor was the initial reaction in parts of the credit markets particularly encouraging.

But there still appears to be room for values to rise, provided global credit markets do not seize up.

The deals are likely to continue, though there is no particular rush, since the credit markets seem unlikely to rebound in the near future.

Other "mega-deals" that had not quite closed before credit markets froze last summer are suffering from a collective loss of nerve.

The Federal Reserve restored some stability to dislocated credit markets without a cut to its key interest rate.

When global credit markets froze up in late 2008, international investors stopped buying Dubai property.

Such bond issues can provide multinational companies a new fund-raising channel at a time when credit markets elsewhere lack liquidity.

He noted the index had shown stability even after credit markets seized up in August.

What began 15 months ago with a seizure of the credit markets has become a disease with an alarming list of real economic symptoms.

"The Goliaths are picking up share while the Davids are under pressure, particularly as credit markets remain frozen, " he said.

The Obama administration will take action on a dramatic scale to revive credit markets and strengthen banks so they are able to lend.

But when the credit markets suddenly seized up, the strains soon began to show.

With the credit markets tightening, I really believe that cash will be king during the next few years.

With credit markets temporarily shutting down on them, Chinese developers may face a tight squeeze.

Meanwhile, stress in the credit markets, the epicentre of the financial crisis, intensified as investors fled to save government securities.

This month two high-profile deals had to be scrapped, after buyers walked away, blaming credit markets and the falling growth outlook.

Blackstone has warned of a slowdown in large private equity takeovers due to the upheaval in credit markets.

This raised concerns of a broader repricing of risk in credit markets, leading to heavy losses, particularly in derivative markets.

Mendoza (2001) showed that, in an economy with imperfect credit markets, these sudden stops could be an equilibrium outcome.

We see evidence that the freezing of credit markets is having a tangible impact on the everyday lives of citizens all around the world.

Today, conditions have somewhat returned to normal in the German money and credit markets.

In the current environment, with banks in crisis mode and many credit markets all but shut down, the rate cut's likely impact is less clear.

But many analysts say renewed deterioration in credit markets since the Fed's October meeting has increased the risks to growth.

Volatility had been falling for years, while confidence in credit markets was obvious from remarkably tight spreads.

In spite of appearances at the time, the crisis that began a year ago was made in the US and its credit markets.

The announcement threw the emirate and the global credit markets into a vertiginous free fall.

And as investors' panic recedes, so credit markets are beginning to function.

Another speculative frenzy, however, looks highly unlikely today, with so much stress in credit markets.

As investors contend with tight credit markets, they also face weakness in the U. S. dollar and soaring commodities prices.

Although credit markets are reopening, they are not yet ready to lend heavily to private-equity firms.

The yearlong rally in credit markets ran out of steam in the second quarter. It may be slow to restart .

The anniversary of the Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy and the freezing of the credit markets that followed is an occasion for reflection.

He may be the king of the silver screen but it seems not even Steven Spielberg can thaw the freeze in credit markets.

It did so to help keep problems in the housing and credit markets from harming the wider economy and causing a recession.

The priority, in terms of stemming the panic, is to unblock clogged credit markets.

This means the poor invest less in small businesses than they would if credit markets functioned properly, the report says.

The U. S. auto market was, by contrast, battered by eroding demand amid the economic crisis as credit markets dried up.

The aim is to unblock the flow of credit markets now. Then they sell the securities later, when the housing market improves.

The other three segments of the financial markets - money, debt and credit markets - could be impacted indirectly.

"With improving credit markets, the U. S. economy can return to solid growth next year without worry about rising inflation, " Reaser said.

Business leaders hope that the rescue package will thaw out the frozen credit markets and restore confidence in struggling banks.

The deal is sufficiently small for the squeeze in credit markets not to constrain TPG's ability to lodge an improved counter-offer.

The southern European state, with a long history of loose finances, is coming under attach in the credit markets for its excessive spending.

The goal of future policy should be to recapitalize lending institutions while maintaining the basic infrastructure of credit markets.

From outside the US it was obvious that the little- known monoline bond insurers were critical players in credit markets.

He said "there was much less need for Asia to tap global credit markets than 10 or 20 years ago" .

Just as with the housing market, the good times ended when the economy fell into recession and the credit markets froze.

Credit markets need a longer period of good news to stop these kind of negative spirals from taking hold.

Fears of a widespread credit crunch created high volatility in stock markets and credit markets.

No wonder credit markets are still taking a dim view of the bank.

Credit markets in Europe are vulnerable to a further sell-off even after the EU debt deal was passed last week.

Yet most Spanish lenders are still shut out of the wholesale credit markets.

Dollar: The tighter credit markets have also led to a rise in the dollar over the past week.

But soon, credit markets around the world slowed to a halt on fears about the health of banks.

Risk assets like stocks and corporate credit markets were performing well, favoring the euro over the safe-haven dollar.

In particular, panic has returned to the credit markets, yet no new rescue plan is in sight.

"We need to dynamite this thing, " the US Treasury secretary said of his plan to end the freeze in global credit markets.

It has lowered interest rates essentially to zero and is on track to pump more than $2 trillion into the credit markets.

But a zero percent rate has serious consequences for the complex credit markets.

European leaders are talking about temporarily guaranteeing future debts among private banks as a way to unlock the frozen credit markets.

The banks that made these loans bundled them up and sold them in the credit markets to investors, eager for high yields.

Successful passage of the plan in coming days, still the likeliest outcome, should inject some confidence into credit markets.

Bankruptcy laws are recognized as fundamental institutions necessary for growth of credit markets and entrepreneurship.

In response it has increased its scrutiny of credit markets and established an in-house team to monitor the sector.

The tools remaining at its disposal involve facilitating the flow of funds in credit markets.

These sorts of "margin" rules already exist for equities and must be extended to the credit markets.

But the deal would be big and, unless credit markets undergo a serious thaw, very hard to finance.

They were hit hard by the near-collapse of global credit markets and the dramatic destocking by shell-shocked firms.

Some governments may be tempted to direct their banks' lending, especially if the credit markets are not working.

But this time the scare is about more than bad mortgage loans and their baleful effect on the credit markets.

With the credit markets in turmoil, bond insurers are desperate to retain the top-notch ratings that cities depend on when they borrow.

He contended that governments were "firing as many bullets" as they could to stimulate economic growth and stabilise the credit markets.

Lackluster economic data and signs of an easing in the credit markets continue to create volatility on Wall Street.

"It's indiscriminate selling and not particularly thoughtful analysis of underlying company fundamentals in credit markets, " said Anderson.

Demand for the Federal Reserve's emergency short-term lending programs is abating, the latest sign that credit markets are healing.

Equity and credit markets came under further pressure as investors headed for the perceived safety of government bonds, gold and the dollar.

Another, of course, is the paralysis of credit markets, limiting the ability of legitimate businesses and families to borrow and spend.

In any case, the continuing chill in credit markets, despite some thawing this year, acts as a brake on private equity's ambitions. U.

Speculation infected that equity market as it did our housing and credit markets in this crisis.

Chinese developers in particular are more reliant on global credit markets than most Asian companies.

I also expect that the bursting of the alchemy bubble in the credit markets won't seriously disrupt the global boom.

The IMF still sees continued serious risks to global financial stability despite some signs of normalization in global credit markets.

Credit markets also remained distressed, with bank lending rates rising and investors fleeing to the safety of Treasury bills.

Since credit markets seized up in the summer of 2007, banks and brokerages worldwide have cut nearly 300, 000 jobs.

And with $2 trillion in reserves, China recycled its export dollars back into US credit markets.

The Fund will pursue investment strategies designed to capitalize on opportunities created by turmoil in the global credit markets.

The question for 2008 is whether the Indian corporate is better positioned given the changes in the global credit markets.

However, there were more signs of a thawing in frozen credit markets yesterday.

The uncertainty eventually spread through global credit markets, sparking the financial crisis.

Even as credit markets seize up, a world economy that is less dependent on the United States is more likely to stay aloft.

The whole evolution of the credit markets resulted in all sorts of complex financial instruments that are difficult to unwind .

Few want to bump up the amount of debt that needs to get rolled over while credit markets are still dislocated.

Some were created by the Fed's myriad loans to banks, issuers of commercial paper and others to unfreeze the credit markets.

With the situation in financial markets so fluid, much depends on when (and if) credit markets begin to normalise .

As banks refused to lend, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson proposed a plan to loosen credit markets by buying risky assets.

With difficult credit markets and an unclear future, talk of dealmaking has been at a minimum this year.

The opening of the credit markets has not been easy or quick.

Meanwhile, equity investors have shown themselves in the past to be slow to react to problems in the credit markets.

Since monetary policy has little traction when credit markets are dysfunctional, there is hardly any support at all.

Henry Kaufman, a highly experienced observer of credit markets, suggests intense scrutiny of banks deemed "too big to fail" .

The global bogeymen of deleveraging and frozen credit markets are more fearsome in South Korea than most of Asia.

And the patient responded to the shock therapy, as the credit markets and financial sector bounced back.

Caruana says more than six months into the crisis, credit markets are still not functioning normally.

The credit markets are the motor for three of the big trends of the decade and some people find them unsettling.

Recent data on manufacturing, home sales and renewed tightening in credit markets raises the stakes and ups the odds of bad-debt crisis.

When the global financial turmoil began last year, Highland was one of the more feared big-game hunters in the credit markets.

Even credit markets, historically indifferent to Japan's worsening fiscal position, are showing signs of strain.

All the actions are aimed at dealing with the three related problems that have blocked credit markets and the banking system.

Stockmarkets are in a funk. But the main problem remains the credit markets.

As a result, the United States and the European Union, already grappling with shaky credit markets, would teeter on recession.

To be sure, we will not have a sustainable recovery without a stabilisation of our financial system and credit markets.

Paulson conceded that credit markets are still clogged and that more action is required.

In recent days America's central bank has flooded credit markets with liquidity, creating new lending facilities apace.

Mr Och is less sure that credit markets offer a once- in-a-generation opportunity, urging caution.

However, the credit markets have been less sanguine than FX markets since last weekend's EU summit.

If anything, the recent behaviour of credit markets suggests some investors are becoming even more relaxed about risk.

Rich nations are expected to borrow heavily in world credit markets to finance spending at home.

Investors scurried for safety, betting locked-down credit markets would start to shut down global economic growth.

But with credit markets tightening and collapsing U. S. auto sales draining GM's cash, the auto maker is scrambling to keep itself afloat.

But the short-term credit markets that lie at the center of the crisis were telling a different story.

With credit markets jammed up, an interest rate cut would, for the most part, only have delivered a psychological boost.

One message from the crisis has been the complete implosion, along with credit markets, of the authority of George W. Bush's administration.

Even if the credit markets work well, the rich economies will slow as the asset-price bubble pops.

The recent problems that spread from the housing market to credit markets have even effected (affected) student loans.

The Fed's attempts to pump liquidity into US credit markets meant the relationship between Hibor and Libor reversed last week.

Investors shunned riskier assets as equity and credit markets were hit hard in September, fuelling dollar gains.

April was far from the cruelest month for European credit markets.

Any buying frenzy would be constrained by credit markets.

What is important, however, is the flatness of the yield curve and its effect on lending across all credit markets.

On Wednesday, President Obama announced that Secretary Geithner will release a new plan to ease credit markets next week.

This could revive non-bank credit markets independently of whether banks are put back on a sound footing.

The moves reminded investors that, despite a brief rally in stocks since mid-July, credit markets are as unsettled as ever.

It would also spook global credit markets, raising the costs of financing US public debt.

All agree that there will be no meaningful recovery until the credit markets are unclogged.

McKelvey said further declines could cause much deeper problems for consumers and credit markets.

Policymakers hope the move will shore up confidence and help shock the credit markets back to life.

Companies are keen to maintain a large cushion, as rating agencies are closely watching cash balances as credit markets tighten.

Sure, solar panels are a hefty investment, and credit markets are tightening up.

Global stockmarkets are suffering double-digit losses this year, and credit markets are once again gummed up.

Financial mavens have long had access to comprehensive data on credit markets and subprime mortgages.

Credit markets are gummed up, curtailing company investment and consumer spending.

And the danger posed by dysfunctional credit markets will not disappear overnight.

And just last week, the market hailed new steps by the Federal Reserve to bolster the credit markets.

In any case, experts say the problem of toxic assets must be solved before credit markets will unfreeze.

If it is not raised, the government will go into default, which could have a disastrous effect on the credit markets and the economy.

Apollo made the offer in July 2007, at the tail-end of the private-equity boom and shortly before the bust in credit markets.

The Fed's rate reduction follows emergency measures in recent days to ease the liquidity crisis in credit markets.

Nor do I believe that recent Fed actions will restore the functioning of credit markets to their pre-crisis state.

A rapid rundown in inventories and temporary distortions in credit markets (see article) have not helped.

Will the Fed's ever more aggressive efforts to unfreeze the credit markets finally start getting somewhere?

He opposed the bill Monday but now supports it, arguing broad action is needed to stem the decline in credit markets.

But gold is soaring again, hitting record highs even as the credit markets improve.

The recent problems that spread from housing market to credit markets have even affected student loans.

Tight credit markets, dented consumer confidence and high gas prices all conspire to reduce demand.

Global stock markets are suffering double-digit losses this year, and credit markets are once again gummed up.

He forecast continued troubles in the credit markets and continuing investor risk-aversion.

The recent problems that spread from the housing market to credit markets have even affected student loans.

The unprecedented global government response to restore restore investor confidence has resulted in some thawing in the credit markets.

She adds that the bill will help stabilize credit markets, which will in turn help revive the country's economy.

In addition, the tight conditions in credit markets had made it difficult for DIC's private equity arm to raise debt for company buy-outs.

Its origins lie in the credit markets, coverage of which in most news organizations counted as a backwater.

Credit markets are already 'pricing in' a Greek debt default and more pain for Ireland, whether rightly or wrongly.

That, in turn, could damage domestic credit markets and easily spark another recession.

A pause in the currency rout would be welcome for credit markets.

An ECB sovereign guarantee programme would immediately calm the credit markets.

Now, perhaps, with damage spreading through the global credit markets, there is a sense that there are bigger things to worry about.

For China, the risk of more capital outflows could cause further stress in already tight credit markets.

Banks will sink, credit markets will seize, the economy will go into something much worse than a recession.

If that jump-starts the credit markets, Britain may have reached a turning point in the credit crunch.

They know a Lehman bankruptcy would be a big headache come Monday when the credit markets freeze up.

Credit markets have offered favourable terms to hospital groups raising money.

'It's been the healing of the credit markets that has helped power the stock market, ' he says.

Should governments prop up credit markets by offering guarantees or creating bad banks?

Global credit markets are showing signs of improvement, but banks remain reluctant to lend.

The credit markets, meanwhile, were slow to ease up, as banks used the injection of government funds to .

With credit markets frozen, central banks took emergency steps to boost liquidity.

"Investors will rotate into the credit markets and then into stocks when they look more promising. "

In 2006 and much of 2007, as the bubble in credit markets grew, Mr. Combs's skills spotting problem areas started to become apparent.

But the committee is wary of the political risks of wading into private credit markets.

Meanwhile, asked to name the biggest risk to their forecasts, economists singled out problems in the credit markets.

Bank of England policy makers indicated they are considering 'further measures' to ease the logjam in credit markets.

A rapid rundown in inventories and temporary distortions in credit markets have not helped.

While credit markets have recently eased, added pressure could come this quarter.

But as long as credit markets remain volatile, financing any big merger or acquisition is difficult.

That's why we've been so focused on unfreezing our credit markets and stabilizing our financial system.

For borrowers without pristine credit, the credit markets are nearly closed.

London - When oil prices crashed and credit markets froze in 2008, private investment in alternative energy withered.

For one, frozen credit markets causing banks to tighten lending are an immediate problem.

Although the panic in the credit markets shows signs of abating, the economic news gets ever grimmer.

The European sovereign credit markets are in a danger zone.

Higher commodity prices will be accompanied by greater risk aversion in the equity and credit markets.

Enterprises have shown growing concerns about a turn in the credit markets.

Take the central banks' responses to the recent problems in the credit markets.

The financial system is awash in liquidity and credit markets are functioning.

Many of those developments had secured financing before credit markets seized up.

Toyota Financial says tricky U. S. credit markets prompted it to seek another source of funds.

A second vicious tumble in the credit markets; a second scalp on Wall Street.

Credit markets are closed to it and state coffers may be empty in about a month.

Rather, in fact, like the credit markets after 2007.

US credit markets are now healthy, and the recapitalised banking system stable.

But the Fed has extended huge loans to banks and others to loosen up the credit markets, creating more reserves than it can drain.

The knockout blow will undoubtedly come (probably in the credit markets).

Some European banks are struggling to get funding in short-term credit markets.

Europe's peripheral credit markets are fairly unchanged today.

Turmoil in global credit markets on Thursday claimed a rare Asian casualty.

Pressure is building for central banks to become a lot more active and vocal [this] week if they want to avert a collapse in credit markets.

The credit markets are as liquid as a frozen daiquiri .

Tight credit markets have affected some businesses.

And the panic in credit markets will ease, as losses are tallied and banks recapitalised.

Ravenous growth and maturing equity and credit markets should mean Asia offers a lot of opportunities.

GDP dropped by 10. 9% that year, and the country was locked out of the credit markets.

Likewise, it will take time for credit markets to defrost enough for banks to borrow freely again.

By early 1932, the gates of the New York credit markets had slammed shut for Ivar Kreuger.

BANKS have endured a brutal nine months since credit markets froze in August.

Stock market volatility has been closely tied to European credit markets in recent days.

They cannot borrow in credit markets anditthey depend on exports of commodities like crops or minerals.

Now, multi-billion dollar deals are on the table, helped by a loosening in credit markets.

Still, the biggest threat to both equity and private credit markets may be the government bond markets.

Righteous anger will not thaw credit markets.

The Fed is anxious to calm the credit markets, so that the economy's funds are allocated in line with risk and reward.

In 2006 and 2007, as the bubble in credit markets grew, Mr. Combs's skills spotting problem areas started to become apparent.

More importantly, the credit markets, especially the ones where banks lend to each other, look more relaxed.

Who can doubt the amazing recovery of the credit markets?

This is a crucial cog in credit markets, as it allows banks to clear payments and borrow money from each other overnight.