Sentence examples for asset less from inspiring English sources

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The bank wrote down £585 million in credit-related assets, less than many of its rivals.

It was the first country to freeze Egyptian assets, less than an hour after Mr Mubarak resigned.

With net assets less than $600 million and a nonperforming loan ratio of 4.9percentTa Ta Chong is getting by.

But that is based on a low multiple of last year's book value, or assets less liabilities.

Reductions in American interest rates make domestic assets less attractive, reducing the demand for dollars and lowering the currency's value in foreign exchange markets.

By throttling the bits of banks that "make markets" in bonds, shares, currencies and commodities, the theory goes, watchdogs have made such assets less liquid.

The rate cut should also reduce cross-border speculation by making Brazilian assets less attractive, in that way weakening Brazil's currency.

No growth was needed to qualify as such a company, only that it must have less than $1 billion in assets, less than $700 million in shares in public hands and less than five years as a public company.

The pound has stayed strong despite cuts in official British interest rates, from 7.5% last autumn to 5.25% now, which have made sterling assets less appealing (in the same period, euro-area rates have also fallen, but by less).

Specialists testifying before House and Senate committees said that although the pension funds had invested billions of dollars in hedge and equity funds, the amounts are a small part of their overall assets — less than 10percentt, according to recent studies.