The banks arranging the Chrysler and Alliance loan packages have decided to hold them on balance sheet and wait until the fall to see if investors are willing to jump back into the loan market.

FORBES: Magazine Article

It's a similar dynamic to what is happening with Wall Street banks that committed to fund leveraged buyouts, only to have trouble selling those loans in the syndicated loan market--they have to hold them on balance sheet until the credit markets come back to life.

FORBES: The Fed Primes The Pump

They can remain on the balance sheet with a footnote explaining the intent to hold to maturity.

FORBES: Magazine Article

As I pointed out in the post, Apple, Microsoft and Cisco all have huge cash positions outside the country: each of them, in fact, hold the vast majority of their balance sheet cash in foreign accounts.

FORBES: Revealed: How U.S. Companies Can Repatriate Cash Tax Free

Dr Sheridon has come up with a so-called wand an electronic stick that can hold ten full-size books and also transfer text on to a sheet of Gyricon if a user runs the wand over the surface like a handheld scanner.

ECONOMIST: Showing off

Lacking any Wall Street buyers for their mortgage loans, commercial banks are left to hold any mortgages they've made in the last few weeks on balance sheet, requiring funds and reserves against them.

FORBES: The Fed Primes The Pump

She reached for a wet towel and quickly swiped it across the mattress, then shook out a clean sheet and managed to slip it underneath him just as he was becoming too heavy for her to hold where he was.

NEWYORKER: The Visitor

Even those banks that are in good shape may want to hold back amid uncertainty over capital-adequacy requirements and accounting rules for off-balance-sheet assets.

ECONOMIST: Credit in America

Standing silently but amiably to one side, he would unbolt the magic boxes, hold the ropes, demonstrate the emptiness of beakers and pots, confirm the thickness of a sheet of glass before a near-naked girl would climb into a magic box and pass straight through it!

ECONOMIST: Ali Bongo | The