Sentence examples for flagging credit from inspiring English sources

The two disclosures hardly meant that the sale of GMAC is doomed, but they did little to reassure investors that the deal — intended to rehabilitate GMAC's flagging credit ratings and bring cash to troubled G.M. — was close at hand.

We have concerns about the outcome of the debt-ceiling debate and the nation's flagging credit rating.

Shares of the 110-year-old Hoffman Estates, Ill.-based retailer are up 23% since the company said on March 26 that it was "exploring strategic options" for its flagging credit card business.

The biggest U.S. bank is aiming to unload $400 billion of assets within three years after being hit hard by flagging mortgage and credit markets.

There is, simply, the short-term need to respond to the downturn: employment is falling, consumer spending flagging and credit conditions tightening.

For the figures miss an important point: consumers are facing a nasty squeeze, hit simultaneously by soaring costs for petrol, food and health care, tumbling house and share prices, tighter credit and flagging wages.

The Bank of England has revealed that George Osborne's flagship scheme intended to bolster credit to the flagging economy has injected just £500m of new financing into small businesses and households.

Even as the stock market flags and credit losses mount, executive pay marches higher.

The use of a so-called state rainy day fund, if there is no plan to replenish the fund, would raise the same red flag for credit analysts.

But pressure for a solution was mounting with dire warnings from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, red flags from credit rating agencies and pressure from the business and financial sectors.

The rise in the so-called reserve requirement ratio for banks effectively allows financial institutions to extend more credit, helping prop up flagging growth.