Sentence examples for curtail credit from inspiring English sources

In this context, banks' natural reaction will be to retrench further, de-globalize more and curtail credit to an even greater extent.

Except in Ireland, where the dire state of banks is likely to curtail credit for some time, and Canada, which peaked late, prices are dropping gradually, if at all.

The Chinese government, which had been trying to curtail credit to slow the bubble's rise, abruptly changed course last month, reducing the amount of money banks must keep in reserve at the central bank for the first time since 2008.

While some banking groups have claimed the rules will require them to curtail credit and cripple economic growth, Mr. Trichet took the opposite view, saying in a statement that the rules' "contribution to long-term financial stability and growth will be substantial".

Significantly for HUD, lenders have also complained that the Justice Department's investigations and lawsuits have led them to curtail credit.

Curtail credit card usage.

"The biggest issue that companies are having is that banks are curtailing credit lines," notes Lyle Wallis of the Credit Research Foundation, which studies business-to-business credit trends in America.

First-quarter revenue fell 64percentt from a peak in mid-1999 as lenders curtailed credit amid mounting bad loans, prompting Mr. Young in April to predict a full-year loss.

And the one concrete number from a bank — Capital One — shows that, while it reduced credit lines by 4.5 per cent in the second quarter, a good chunk of that seems to have come from shutting down inactive accounts, which doesn't really speak to the "sharply curtailing" credit point.

Applications to CDFIs for consumer loans have increased fivefold since 2007, "as a result of curtailed credit provision by banks," says Harry Glavan of the Community Development Finance Association.Faisel Rahman of Fair Finance, an east London social enterprise, hopes that microfinance will fill a "human-touch niche" in the subprime market.

People close to the deal say the company hopes that a deal with Dynegy, and the release of the answers to the S.E.C., will calm the crisis that has engulfed the company and led other energy companies that trade with Enron to curtail their credit exposure to the company.