Sentence examples for business borrowing from inspiring English sources

You had lots of people getting loans who had no business borrowing money.

I.B.M. announced yesterday that it planned to adopt a more open strategy in its microprocessor business, borrowing a page from successful collaborative software projects like Linux.

Just as for an individual or a business, borrowing can be good or bad, depending on what the money is used for.

The next year, in what family members describe as "the minnow swallowing the whale," Peter Stroh bet the family business, borrowing $500 million (the book value of the Stroh business was $100 million at the time) to buy Joseph Schlitz Brewing of Milwaukee.

"Business borrowing continues to reflect weak demand combined with companies reducing gearing by repaying bank borrowing," Mr Dooks said.

3 14pm: George Mudie, Labour, asks what percentage of business borrowing is covered by the banks that have been recapitalised.

Critics have mocked him as a hypocrite after Mother Jones reported that his business borrowed $530,000 from the federal government's Small Business Administration loan guarantee program.

Even if the Japanese clean up their banking mess, industrial capacity is superabundant, so why should business borrow to build more?

For example, if you put in $1000 to start a business, borrow $10,000, and make $500 after one year, your return on equity is a generous $500/$1000, or 50% per annum.

Rather than businesses borrowing to invest, consumers would borrow to spend.

Against that background, the fact that small businesses borrowing continued at the pace it did suggests there is no risk of recession, Phelan said.