Buy-out firms have squeezed spreads on loans and bonds to levels that make bankers' eyes water.
The first guest up in the morning found the coffeepot and kettle ready to go onto the flame, and breakfast -- homemade jams, fresh bread, cheeses, oranges to eat or to squeeze -- spread out on the big kitchen table.
To improve circulation while in that position, flex and point your raised foot, and squeeze and spread your toes.
Squeeze and spread a layer of chocolate syrup on top of the ice cream.
That extra demand squeezes the spread over inflation-linked bonds, bringing down the implied inflation rate.The principal on American inflation-linked bonds rises with the consumer-price index, but does not drop below its par value even if the CPI declines.
But there are plenty of people who would rather be squeezed in than spread out.
Lower rates, less volatility and a squeeze on lending spreads cost Itaú 450m reais of revenue between 2002 and 2003.
He found a ready audience: le petit commerçant was increasingly squeezed between the spread of chain stores and a heavy-handed state bureaucracy.
The Bank of Japan delivered its bleakest assessment of the economy since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, in a sign that a global slump sparked by the United States credit squeeze may be spreading too quickly for Japan to avert recession.
But lower spreads also squeeze the profits of market-makers, who are making less money on each trade.
The move was an emergency response to a spreading credit squeeze as the availability of dollars for European banks has tightened.
