Over the past 15 years Jack Welch has leveraged his prime credit rating and reshuffled GE's portfolio of operating companies, but 40% of GE's earnings come from financial services, which for me rate just a midteens valuation.
Among so-called near-prime borrowers with credit scores of 620 to 749, the approval rate jumped to 83% from 70%.
Credit Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra with moving to seize the chance.
The deputy prime minister gave some credit to Ronald Reagan for reducing the threat of WMDs.
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Almost any bank with a lot of retail business except for sub-prime lending and perhaps credit cards can expect its minimum capital to fall.
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Profitable operating companies would be in a net lending position to the parent and would get a daily credit of prime minus one.
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In this case companies wouldn't renew credit cards unless folks were prime-rate customers and would find ways to reduce credit card limits.
Regional banks have also steered clear of the other main area where credit is deteriorating, sub-prime lending (high-interest loans to borrowers with patchy credit).
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Tony Blair, Britain's former prime minister, who claims credit for negotiating the deal as the envoy for the Quartet (the UN, the EU, the United States and Russia), says he will not get the small print for two weeks.
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Credit Suisse is a prime example of a bank that has greatly increased its exposure to the securities markets over the past decade.
The squeeze on mortgages has led to the entry of "credit crunch", along with the US source of the crisis - the "sub-prime" home loan to those with a poor credit history.
Japan's prime minister, Ryutaro Hashimoto, deserves credit for, however belatedly, putting the ills of his country's financial system on view.
To be sure, President Bush deserves credit for exercising restraint during Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's visit to the White House on Sunday.
Sub-prime lending (to those with bad credit histories), leveraged financing (some leasing, for example) and credit-card lending have all been growing especially and worryingly fast.
The bank had been facing increasing calls to disclose the extent of its exposure to crisis-hit U.S. sub-prime mortgages and liabilities in the subsequent credit squeeze.
The sub-prime mortgage crisis led to a global credit crisis, and fear (as measured by the VIX) spiked to record-high levels as the stock market collapsed.
If a broker puts you into a sub prime loan and you're A credit, they receive what is called the yield spread premium, which also synonymous to a kick back.
But the immediate concern, former Prime Minister Eyskens says, is that new credit restrictions could harm manufacturing companies at a time when European growth is stagnant.
Bank-issued credit card lending to sub-prime consumers jumped 41% between 2010 and 2011 hitting a four-year high in December 2011 with 1.1 million new bank credit cards issued.
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It was as if the credit crunch and the sub-prime crisis had been left firmly at the elegant auction house door, along with dogs, muddy gumboots and maxed-out credit cards.
One potential worry is sub-prime lending: loans to people with a bad credit history.
As deputy prime minister, Mr Veltroni took a lot of credit for Italy's inclusion in the single currency's first round.
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The credit for that achievement goes largely to Prime Minister H.
Prime Minister David Cameron said the UK's credit rating "matters because the most important thing is to keep interest rates low, to keep mortgage rates low".
Well, Prime Minister Singh and I are very proud to take credit for our two nations forging an unprecedented partnership through this Strategic Dialogue.
From 2010 to 2011 there was a 4.7 percentage point increase in retail card originations to sub-prime borrowers, making up 31% of 2011 retail credit card originations, Equifax says.
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Many credit card rates are based in part on the prime rate.
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With over 400 million active credit card accounts on file, Apple had a prime opportunity to convert its customers using a sleek mobile payment system tied to the iPhone.
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It is a free vote - on conscience rather than on party lines - so it would be inaccurate to say they are voting against the government but internal divisions on the issue will make it difficult for the Tories to claim the credit for changing the law in the way the prime minister might hope.
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