Sentence examples for troubled balance from inspiring English sources

At the same time, deleveraging — the winnowing down of banks' troubled balance sheets — continues to crimp lending.

Paulson, who headed the Treasury Department at the time of the rescue, said AIG shareholders should have faced punishment for the company's troubled balance sheet.

And a firm backed by Qatar agreed to buy an arm of the KBC Group of Belgium for $1.4 billion, giving KBC additional capital to support its troubled balance sheet.

Bob Konefal, a managing director for Moody's, said the Agere offering was a "critical liquidity event," a chance for Lucent to take some pressure off its troubled balance sheet.

One of the outcomes may be a fresh round of merger activity, though buyers willing to take on some of these troubled balance sheets seem to be scarce.

Investors are looking for signs of a recovery in the dry bulk shipping market, but they have to be patient: With a large supply of ships set to be delivered and many companies facing troubled balance sheets, the road up from the bottom will be long and steep.

Banks were not just undercharged for the formal liquidity lines they offered to conduits and SIVs; they were also undercharged for reputational risk, the informal obligation to reabsorb troubled off-balance-sheet assets to help their clients.

In fact, our investment advisers foresee these assets troubling bank balance sheets for another five to 10 years.

Until recently, North Dakota had a dwindling population and trouble balancing a very small state budget.

James hands Jeanne a champagne glass, which she has trouble balancing while holding their son.

These governments always have trouble balancing their budgets during economic downturns, and this downturn has been worse than most.