Sentence examples for gross borrowing from inspiring English sources
It also expected to reduce its gross borrowing requirement for 2011 by about $4.9 billion from the estimated $59.5 billion for 2010.
The bank syndicate placing the bonds was able to drum up €25 billion-worth of orders in a few hours.If the Greek government had decided to meet all that demand, it would now be halfway to meeting its gross borrowing requirement for this year.
Philip Isherwood, a strategist at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, points out that the de-leveraging story was anyway a mixed one in America, where many companies merely amassed cash and left gross borrowing intact, while others in troubled sectors did not even do that.Market jittersAnd finally the markets themselves are suggesting that all's not for the best in this best of possible worlds.
Ireland is not far behind: it has sold €10 billion of bonds out of a gross borrowing requirement of around €25 billion.In this section Slash and burn Rebalancing act Household chores The grand illusion Beating the rush Burning down the house Bridges to somewhere Give me your scientists… ReprintsHow have Greece and Ireland succeeded where others have seemingly failed?
The OECD says, according to the FT, that the gross borrowing needs of OECD governments are expected to reach $10.4 trillion in 2011 and will increase to $10.5 trillion next year - a $1 trillion increase on 2007 and almost twice as much as in 2005.
On the other hand, for a country with gross public borrowing at close to 240% of GDP, fiscal rectitude is paramount.
Richard Woolhouse, chief economist at the BBA, said: "These statistics show that housing market activity remained strong in October, with gross mortgage borrowing 26% higher than a year ago and at its highest level for seven years.
The figures, from the British Bankers Associationn (BBA) showed that there was £11.5bn of gross mortgage borrowing in February, up 47% on the same month last year.
When a comedy is so starved for laughs that it stoops to borrowing the gross-out gags of an earlier flop movie, it's a pretty sure sign of desperation.
All major economies are now recording higher levels of borrowing relative to gross domestic product (GDP) than they did in 2007.
Alessandra Codinha, vogue.com fashion news editor, was critical of bloggers for taking payment to wear clothes in return for granting brands' exposure on blogs and Instagram feeds – the "whole practice of paid appearances and borrowed outfits" was "gross", she said.
