Sentence examples for downward credit from inspiring English sources

A breakdown of the $15bn hit shows $6bn in write-downs and credit costs on exposure to sub-prime mortgages; $3.1bn in write-downs on funded and unfunded highly leveraged finance commitments; a downward credit value adjustment of $1.5bn related to exposure to bond insurers; $1.5bn in write-downs on auction-rate securities and a $3.1bn increase in credit costs in its global consumer business.

Citigroup said that before taxes, it took $6.0 billion in write-downs and credit costs on exposure to subprime mortgages; $3.1 billion in write-downs on risky loans; a downward credit value adjustment of $1.5 billion related to exposure to bond insurers; $1.5 billion in write-downs on auction-rate securities; and a $3.1 billion rise in credit costs for consumers around the world.

"This is the first year that the downward trend in credit has stopped," said Pedro Zorrilla, of the bankers' association.

That reversed a downward trend, with credit universally given to Christian Ude, a former journalist who has for 20 years been a highly popular mayor of Munich.

So far the downward spiral of credit and financial markets seems to have left venture capital firms and startups relatively unharmed.

It would immediately adjust national govt. debt ratios substantially downward and ease credit fears.

The cost is obvious, while the main benefit avoiding a catastrophic downward cycle of contracting credit and recession is, mercifully, hypothetical, no matter how plausible.

But the economic effects — a freezing up of credit, a downward spiral in asset values — are the same as those of the great bank runs of the 1930s.

Clearly, many banks have other priorities these days, as a downward shift in the credit cycle has hurt their core business.

Uncertainty about the stability of assets in money market funds signaled a tipping point that accelerated the downward spiral of the credit crisis in 2008, and ultimately prompted banks to briefly halt lending to one other.

It is a fact that part of the downward trend in consumer credit is due to charge-offs, but it doesn't give you a clear answer as to what are the main underlying causes of that.