But we are past that point, and corporate balance sheets are flush with cash.
Lemieux, who quit school in Montreal after the tenth grade, never learned how to read balance sheets.
In bad times, she says, the rule sends balance sheets into an overly steep decline.
We need to see consolidation in the banking sector and a cleaning up of balance sheets.
All the biggest banks now have their costs and their balance sheets under control.
Nor is precipitating a depression the most expeditious way of cleansing bank and corporate balance sheets.
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This dirtying-up of corporate balance sheets is now taking place on a grand scale.
"Producers have to rebuild their own balance sheets first, " says Midwest Research analyst Mark Koznarek.
Banks have been hoarding cash, preparing their balance sheets for the quarter-end and year-end.
Ever since 2010, UK banks have been under pressure to strengthen their balance sheets.
Eventually, international rules will probably be tightened to require the actual, volatile numbers on balance sheets.
Regional banks with commercial real estate paper on their balance sheets fail by the hundreds.
So, these are companies sitting with a lot of cash on their balance sheets.
As they deleverage their balance sheets they'll be able to borrow and grow again.
There's little debt capital markets activity because most companies have restructured their balance sheets.
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The strong currency has helped the balance sheets of Brazilian companies with international aspirations.
The key, he says, is to look for steady growth among companies with solid balance sheets.
They have managed the balance sheets so that they're getting an increasing return on invested capital.
With stock prices low and balance sheets bursting with cash, won't the sector lure value investors?
The plan would stabilize local property values and simultaneously remove bad loans from bank balance sheets.
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Its balance sheets have shrunk by several hundred billion dollars since its year-end highs.
Bottom line: good CSR practices make for better companies, as well as better balance sheets.
The safe companies have strong balance sheets and have had very little company-specific bad news.
This is a tough job, closely related to the restructuring of bank balance sheets.
Well before the guarantees go, the agencies want to see stronger ownership and balance sheets.
Today Japanese banks are trying to shore up crumbling balance sheets instead of providing new capital.
The argument required an extensive cross-examination of senior bank officials on balance sheets and earnings statements.
Balance sheets are comfortably liquid and industry shows no appetite for ambitious capital spending.
Among the other proposals being considered are plans to ring-fence those assets on banks' balance sheets.
Both companies were then ushered through speedy bankruptcies that dramatically improved their balance sheets.
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