Sentence examples for leveraged instruments from inspiring English sources

Few before the crash descried the seeds of disaster in banks' reliance on highly leveraged instruments.

Mr. Brütsch said the second-quarter loss was expected because of impairment charges on leveraged financial instruments and a restructuring charge related to the investment banking unit.

Chicago's three derivatives exchanges combined forces for the first time today, announcing a plan to form a joint venture to trade futures on individual stocks, highly leveraged financial instruments that have been banned in the United States for nearly 20 years.

It was noted also that the joining of the two instruments leveraged innovative activities.

But analysts raised questions yesterday about the extent of that discipline after Merrill announced that it would take its first loss since the end of the technology boom and would write down $5 billion primarily in its fixed-income sector: subprime loans, complex debt instruments and leveraged, or risky, loans.

In his speech he said that leveraged firms trading credit instruments may well improve liquidity, pricing and diversification opportunities for investors, which should lead to lower risk and ultimately cheaper capital.But there were problems monitoring the positions taken by firms, he added, which may pose risks to financial stability.

ProShares, a provider of leveraged funds (or exchange-traded instruments, in BlackRock's proposed taxonomy), is irreproachably clear about the risks of compounding.

Interest rates up, European real estate values off the dial, the skies full of cranes, record art prices, zillionaire upstarts, bubble markets going up forever, all underpinned by leveraged trillion-dollar alien financial instruments suddenly melting like ice cream in front of their holders.

That's because he manages a market value CBO, a relatively new type of financial instrument created by the leveraged buyout community over the last five years.

The proposed laws would cover the range of funds that deal in derivatives, auction-rate and mortgage-backed securities, highly leveraged transactions and a slew of other instruments so complicated as to defy description.

Topics may include security issuance, debt policy and liability management, dividend policy and share repurchases, design and valuation of equity-linked instruments, private equity and venture capital financing, leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, and financial restructuring.