Sentence examples for dubious asset from inspiring English sources

Sigismund granted this dubious asset in 1415 to his faithful ally Frederick, burgrave of Nürnberg.

The reputation of an intellectual is a dubious asset for a performer.

Maybe so, but it means that Associates will for many years be carrying a very dubious asset on its balance sheet: an asset acquired at a high price during a huge boom in consumer lending when losses are low and the lending spreads high for quality risks like Associates.

This institution, called Securum, was meant to sell off those dubious assets over 15 years.

This can be done by lending the borrower money, guaranteeing their debts, or guaranteeing the value of their dubious assets.

The Fed has accepted all manner of dubious assets in exchange for its various loans as the crisis has deepened.

In December, the Basel committee said that some kinds of dubious "assets" simply could not be counted as part of capital.

On the eve of the financial crisis, according to the court, Citigroup created a billion-dollar fund "to dump some dubious assets on misinformed investors".

In 1989 the American government was faced with having to guarantee the dubious assets of practically the entire sector of savings-and-loans institutions.

Germany is concerned that any bailout of Cyprus' ailing banking sector with EU money could inadvertently help Russian oligarchs and mafia figures who have used the island's notoriously lax banking systems to squirrel away billions in dubious assets.

WALL STREET JOURNAL Different Approaches to Greek Debt Causes Concern  |  There is much hand-wringing among investors trying to determine European banks' ability to absorb losses on Greek debt and other dubious assets, The Wall Street Journal writes.