Sentence examples for halt lending from inspiring English sources

Investors are concerned that banks will halt lending to each other and to their customers.

But it is businesses like Mr. Tedeschi's — ones with fewer than 50 workers, which constitute the vast majority of Italy's economy and long provided much of its vitality — that are buckling as banks halt lending and taxes rise.

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.

Last year, Turkish officials recalled, Turkey's director-general of cultural heritage and museums, Murat Suslu, presented Met officials with a stunning ultimatum: prove the provenance of ancient figurines and golden bowls in the collection, or Turkey could halt lending treasures.

Democratic aides said another possibility was legislation that could halt lending from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the United States Export-Import Bank should China flout international norms.

China has ordered some smaller banks to halt lending for several days in what analysts said was the latest move to clamp down on easy credit and cool the red-hot economy.

Only politics explains the IMF's indulgence last summer, when it eased its demands for a reduction in the government's budget deficit: the Fund did not want to create a crisis for Mr Yeltsin by halting lending and frightening the financial markets when Mr Yeltsin was in the middle of an election campaign.

HSBC has halted lending at Household and plans to close down operations over the next three to five years, cutting 6,100 jobs.

The halt comes after lending climbed 20.7percentt in the first quarter and investment in apartment buildings, factories and other fixed assets soared by 43percentt.

And along with big property owners and bankers, they warned that a lack of terrorism insurance would bring a halt to lending and construction.

The banks have warned that such a move will bring down a hail of lawsuits and all but halt mortgage lending in any city with the temerity to try it.