Sentence examples similar to severe balance sheet from inspiring English sources
And when a bubble bursts, it may cause severe balance-sheet strains of the kind now showing in America.Mr Greenspan offers two defences for failing to respond to the bubble.
This has already caused severe balance-sheet problems in Japan, and now America and Germany may be at risk: in both countries debts have surged to record levels.Central bankers in America and Europe but not in Japan still have room to cut interest rates.
Heavy borrowing leaves firms and individuals dangerously exposed: when asset prices collapse, the nominal value of their debts remains fixed, creating severe balance-sheet problems for households and firms as Japan has painfully discovered since 1990.It would have been better if the Fed had raised interest rates earlier in the late 1990s to head off America's stockmarket boom.
He is trying to undo years of corporate drift and is operating under the severe constraint of an over-stretched balance sheet and, one assumes, mighty write-downs to follow on the property portfolio.
"The realization became for the market that if we are going this route of another round of massive bond buying, that is going to have some pretty severe implications for the E.C.B.'s balance sheet," Shaun Osborne, chief currency strategist at Toronto-Dominion Bank's TD Securities unit, said in a phone interview.
Another is that it could do severe damage to the central bank's own balance sheet.
Standard Chartered said it "has a strong and liquid balance sheet and the results of the stress test demonstrate its resilience to a severe global stress scenario".
The balance sheet was weak.
The balance sheet is strong.
