The first LTRO worked in averting a Lehman-like credit crunch by giving European institutions access to short-term liquidity.
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Once the economy stabilises, foreign capital should start to flood in, to refinance those companies that survive the short-term liquidity squeeze.
Though those efforts largely eliminated the company's near-term liquidity concerns, Times Co. has continued to pursue a sale of Fenway Sports Group.
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Therefore, our near term liquidity has been negatively impacted and may require us to secure additional sources of cash sooner than expected.
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As a result, we are evaluating strategic alternatives to improve our near term liquidity and preserve our design wins and customer relationships.
Yet much about the new facility sounds oddly familiar, because it shares many features with a Short-term Liquidity Facility, which it replaces.
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Providing greater short-term liquidity might ease the taking back of assets on to banks' balance sheets and hence bring down interbank rates.
"Our aim is not to help develop property, but to resolve the short-term liquidity squeeze, " said Li Xin, a vice president at China Orient.
Similarly, Western central banks have made clear their desire to collateralize any short-term liquidity loans to Moscow with Soviet gold held in their vaults.
Recently, the BIS has been helping central banks with short-term liquidity problems, aiding institutions in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia with crucial bridging loans.
As it is likely that there will be future periods of market stress, you may want to consider how important near-term liquidity is to you.
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Evergreen had previously noted that near-term liquidity has been hurt by low year-to-date sales and potentially slower sales for the rest of the year, combined with increased selling pressure.
The first set of tools, which are closely tied to the central bank's traditional role as the lender of last resort, involve the provision of short-term liquidity to sound financial institutions.
In a way similar to the Latin American debt crisis in the early 1980s, we are now hearing the Soviet situation characterized as a "short-term liquidity problem" rather than a more serious longer-term structural crisis.
As you may recall, I have contended for over two years in the face of considerable skepticism that Moscow had been routinely dipping into its strategic reserves since 1987 to meet short-term liquidity requirements and that this practice had intensified considerably over the past two years.
The fundamental problem we're facing here is not some sort of short-term loss of confidence or short-term loss of liquidity as much as it is the fundamental problem of we need to work ourselves out of this huge housing bubble.
Credit spreads remain very narrow, which may indicate a focus on near-term growth and plentiful liquidity.
On Tuesday the U.S. central bank annouced that it would buy U.S. commercial paper through a special funding facility designed to provide liquidity to term-funding markets and backstop U.S. issuers of commercial paper, TradeTheNews.com reported.
Short-term interest rates remained low, reflecting plentiful liquidity, an inflation-sensitive shift from long-term debt to short-term, and the perception that the Fed will be dovish.
Normally most advisors plan for the long term, and barring certain liquidity exceptions, so should the client.
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At the same time, Basel III requires banks to issue much larger quantities of long-term debt to meet new liquidity ratios.
Firms failed to disclose existence of additional fees, all the market risks, the lack of liquidity, long-term tax disadvantages, conflicts of interest and the fact that the "guaranteed death payment" is paid only when the client dies.
"Although we believe that fundamentals will remain the key for the Taiwan market, the government's supportive measures will likely boost investor sentiment and market liquidity in the near term, " Fubon Research strategists wrote in a note to clients.
Although liquidity crises are short-term emergencies and macroeconomic stability is a medium-term goal, locked credit markets soon have wider economic effects.
Vessenes believes that while the vagaries of the market can never be fully controlled, the bitcoin market has matured since 2011 and now has enough demand and liquidity to weather short-term crashes.
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As the mortgage crisis unfolded late in the summer of 2007, Northern Rock was forced to turn to the Bank of England for liquidity support to meet short term debt obligations, unable to secure adequate funding through private channels.
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"The pre-arranged trading plan was adopted in order to allow Eric to sell a portion of his Google stock as part of his long-term strategy for individual asset diversification and liquidity, " the company said in the filing. (Read Ten Stocks Billionaires Are Playing).
It could also provide near unlimited liquidity through yet another huge long term refinancing operation.
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Russia has made abundantly clear it wants Qatar to focus on Asia, to sell its gas under long-term contracts and stop feeding European spot market liquidity.
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