Sentence examples for weakening finances from inspiring English sources

The war will do nothing to help Britain's weakening finances.

This month, Standard & Poor's cut its outlook on Brazil's credit rating to negative, citing slowing growth and weakening finances.

Fitch Ratings cut the credit ratings of Japan's largest banking groups, citing their weakening finances and the lack of strong government action to resolve the widespread problem of nonperforming loans.

Moody's is cutting its credit ratings on 28 Spanish banks, saying the weakening finances of Spain's government is making it more difficult for the country to support its lenders.

Citigroup's capital levels came under scrutiny in October when Meredith A. Whitney, now a banking analyst at Oppenheimer, issued a scathing report saying the company's weakening finances would force it to cut its dividend, sell assets and issue new stock.

Though the bursting of the housing bubble and ensuing great recession takes a big share of the blame for families' weakening finances, it is nonetheless startling that a single financial event — only a hiccup on the road to prosperity of Americans on the top of the pile — could erase a generation worth of progress for those in the middle.

Many investors say that while the labels' weakened finances have led them to make slightly more friendly deals, they remain tough negotiators.

Along with its Japanese rivals, Sony and Sharp, Panasonic is battling reduced demand in an anemic global economy and facing intense competition with a bloated business portfolio and weakened finances.

In Europe, weakened finances cast doubt on support for solar and wind power in at least some countries, and support for hydraulic fracturing to increase gas production remains tenuous.

The plan died, a victim of opposition and weakened financing.

This means that, if we chose to do so, we could erect safeguards against the sort of financial instability that has proved so painful over the past few years:Financial liberalisation weakens financing constraints, supporting the full self-reinforcing interplay between perceptions of value and risk, risk attitudes and funding conditions.