Sentence examples for funds were lent from inspiring English sources

The emergency funds were lent for a period of 28 days and secured by collateral but Bear Stearns recourse to such measures led to wide-spread speculation that the huge bank's days were numbered.

Mr. Fisher has repeatedly proposed a rise in the Fed's discount rate, at which funds are lent to member banks.

Fitch, a ratings agency, reckons that roughly half the cash entrusted to big American money-market funds is lent on to European banks.

So the people are who are managing our funds are lending out (our) shares, which in the normal course of short selling are devalued.

The municipal leaders visited Albany one day after The New York Times reported that the state pension fund was lending hundreds of millions of dollars to the state and local governments across New York to help them pay their pension bills.

The fund also said it would like euro zone bailout funds to be lent directly to struggling banks – rather than through national governments – and appealed to the European Central Bank to take more aggressive measures to quell volatile financial markets, such as increasing the money supply or resuming the purchase of the bonds of stressed sovereigns such as Spain.

Doubts remained over how much of the funds will be lent to help the ailing euro zone economy or used to buy sovereign debt of struggling economies as banks deleverage and cut back exposure to government bonds.

The terms of the JLR rescue, and of a further guaranteed bank loan of £450m, were still being haggled over as The Economist went to press.At the regional level, £21.6m of a £25m pot of "transition funds" has been lent to around 200 companies.

And the funds– $1.3 billion was lent during the year ended Mar.

"There is a lack of available funds to be lent, so central bankers step in," Hogan told Forbes.com.

Money raised for the fund will be lent to students for a variety of emergencies.