Sentence examples for rate of default from inspiring English sources

The obvious worry is the rate of default.

Alexander, Labour's election co-ordinator, said the rate of default showed the coalition's policy was not working.

Yet the rate of default has stabilised something that is not true of many of Spain's banks.

IT WAS the growing rate of default on home mortgages in America that precipitated the financial crisis five years ago.

In March, the administration proposed a new metric looking at the rate of default among both graduates and dropouts at any given time.

If falling prices raise the rate of default, that could in turn worsen the credit crunch, putting yet more pressure on prices.

Since then, across the country, the rate of defaults has soared.

Historically, the rate of defaults for munis is extremely low — much lower, for example, than that for corporate bonds.

Once those prices began to decline, the rate of defaults increased, and banks wrote down hundreds of billions of dollars in bad loans.

Aid advisers, concerned about the rising rate of defaults, stress the importance of borrowing as much as possible through federal loan programs before turning to private loans, which offer fewer consumer protections.

The credit agency's analysts expect the rate of defaults to remain high through the third quarter of this year.