Sentence examples for problematic assets from inspiring English sources

Two weeks ago, a published report said Merrill Lynch set at €650 billion the total of German banks' "problematic assets".

Rational private sector investors will probably assume that the banks will only sell their most problematic assets, and bid accordingly.

The agency Fitch also predicted stability for the sector, although it said profitability would be low and there were risks due to the large quantity of "problematic assets".

Modern presidents have followed a tradition of selling potentially problematic assets or sequestering them into a blind trust, overseen by an independent manager with unassailable control.

"What's unclear is whether this will be enough to restore confidence among investors, or whether in fact 10 billion euros will end up being a drop in the ocean should all the problematic assets turn out to be worth zero".

In a separate talk on Sunday at the conference, Donald L. Kohn, the Fed's vice chairman, listed several measures the central bank was likely to take to shed the problematic assets it took from banks during the financial crisis.

However, even with its ability to be cut down into small, investible, pieces, it is still a problematic asset to get one's hands on and to store.

There is a popular perception in the U.K. and the U.S. that savings banks ("building societies" or "thrifts") will emerge relatively unscathed from the financial crisis, because most have little or no exposure to the most problematic asset-backed securities.

"Lehman is among the largest proportionately of the U.S. broker-dealers, and its sources-to-uses ratio is the strongest of the five," Sprinzen said, adding that earnings have held up and Lehman's fixed income business remains profitable despite being directly affected by the economic slowdown and problematic asset-related write-downs.

As part of the merger, Bankia split off its most problematic real assets into BFA, its unlisted parent.

With a market capitalization of about $20 billion, BSkyB offered News Corporation a platform to increase its stake in the lucrative pay-TV business while reducing the importance of its legacy, and problematic, newspaper assets.