Sentence examples for value of troubled from inspiring English sources

By combining derivatives trading with those notorious "special purpose entities," Enron was able to hide debts and trading losses and to inflate the value of troubled operating businesses (e.g., a venture in fiber-optic-bandwidth trading).

This will limit losses on past loans, and may even allow banks to write up the value of troubled debts that they still hold.

If you include not just subprime but also option-ARMs, Alt-A, home-equity loans, credit-card debt, and commercial property, the total face value of troubled or potentially troubled assets held by banks could exceed $5 trillion.

In a separate complaint, the regulator also laid out a complicated situation in which Mr. Falcone manipulated the value of troubled bonds to punish traders betting in the opposite direction.

Deutsche Bank's accounting had been eagerly awaited by investors, because it is the largest bank in Germany and its chief executive, Josef Ackermann, had been outspoken in calling for European banks to acknowledge their exposure to bad debt and mark down the value of troubled securities.

Goldman Sachs recently estimated that the total value of troubled American bank assets was $5.7 trillion; that makes an initial cost of several trillion dollars seem possible.The net cost and hence the net addition to long-term public debt will be much smaller.

It is still sitting on $87 billion of troubled, hard-to-sell assets, many of which could continue to lose value.

Last year, the shares lost more than half their value because of troubles at Fiat Auto, which accounts for roughly 40percentt of the group's revenue.

The outcome (intensity of pains) is rated on a four-point scale and may take the values 0 (not troubled), 1 (a little troubled), 2 (quite troubled) and 3 (seriously troubled).

Michael Thatcher, president and CEO of the nonprofit watchdog Charity Navigator, told National Review that the lack of transparency around InsideClimate News is "at face value, troubling".

And yes, a good game (or two) can revive the value of a quarterback as maligned and troubled as San Diego's Ryan Leaf.