Several factors help explain the reluctance of Banks to lend, despite general improvement in financial conditions and increases in bank stock prices and earnings.

有几个因素有助于解释尽管财政状况、银行股票价格和收入都有普遍改善，银行为什么还不愿意贷款。

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They prompted Banks and investors to lend, lifted stock prices and bolstered the confidence of consumers and chief executives.

它们推动了银行和投资者放贷、提升了股价，也提振了消费者和首席执行官们的信心。

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Pre-borrowing is a much firmer commitment and eliminates the probability that a stock lender will lend out the same shares to several different traders.

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But brokerage firms are able to lend out shares from clients who were allocated stock in the IPO on the expectation that most of those shares would still be there when the time came to deliver them to the short seller.

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