Sentence examples for use of leverage and from inspiring English sources

Such reforms would include curbing the use of leverage and of opaque derivative trades to boost gains.

And he was introspective enough to have serious doubts about the use of leverage and speak out publicly about it.

The Lehman culture of high risk tolerance, aggressive use of leverage and rapid decision-making also clashed with Nomura's more hierarchical and conservative approach, insiders say.

In 1998, Mr. Soros and Mr. Robertson presided over assets of more than $20 billion each, and their sway over markets was amplified by their use of leverage and their reputations.

When people such as Henry Kravis started doing deals, the effective use of leverage and the importance of cashflow was a mystery understood by only a few; now it is taught in every business school.

As for the regulatory threat from Europe, funds in London — which have benefited from the British government's lenient regulatory approach — are up in arms about proposals that would force fund managers to seek regulatory approval for their use of leverage and any material change in investment strategy.

American regulators as well as the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, which sets global standards for lenders, have proposed rules recently that would further restrict banks' use of leverage — borrowed money — and require them to hold a higher percentage of their own wholly owned cash or equity.

And that is the story of how a hedge, setting a limit to a field, became what it is today: a largely unregulated pool of private capital, often using enormous amounts of leverage and borrowing to multiply the size of its bets.

The stress applied to the two pressure-receiving surfaces from the bedrock is magnified by the stress magnification mechanism, which successively magnifies using the principle of leverage, and the displacement at the final end of the lever is detected by the displacement detection sensor (Ishii et al. 2002).

As a Fed president, he tried to get a handle on hedge fund activities and the use of leverage on Wall Street, and he zeroed in on the credit derivatives market.

Will leveling the playing field stop takeovers and use of leverage?