"keep leverage" is a correct phrase and it can be used in written English.
It means to maintain or retain an advantage or position of power in a situation. Example: In order to negotiate a better deal, it is important to keep leverage by having multiple options to choose from.
The EU would keep leverage even after an association agreement is signed.
It is more difficult for him to maintain a solid base and keep leverage on defenders.
The BIS is generally sceptical of the ability of "macropru" policy—such as raising capital requirements or adjusting mortgage loan-to-value ratios as credit growth rises to keep leverage in check.
If Mr. Levin succeeds, Congress will help hand Beijing a diplomatic coup while opening new markets for American goods but will still keep leverage over China's behavior on human rights, religious tolerance and the environment.
Increased organizational accountability will enable organizations to keep leveraging data to drive valuable service innovations while adhering to privacy models that protect reasonable expectations of privacy.
You're strained up trying to keep your leverage on the ball and increase your advantage and hold on to the ball.
"We want Congress to keep its leverage over trade negotiations, not rubber-stamp a deal that delivers profits for global corporations, but not... jobs for working people".
But even now they don't have nearly enough capital to rule out a repeat of 2008, a point acknowledged last week by the big-bank regulators — the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency — who are belatedly urging the megabanks to keep their leverage ratios to a maximum of twenty to one.
That would be painful for some businesses, but not as painful as a crash that could result if leverage keeps getting piled on leverage.
Given UBM is levered, it would have to do a significant capital increase to buy this: assuming around $90m of EBITDA (so 10 times EBITDA), to keep the same leverage number would mean a capital raise of around £440m, or around 30% of the market cap.
