Figures from the central bank show that credit lines to finance trade, normally considered low-risk, are running at about half the level of mid-September.
The latest figures from the European Central Bank show that bank loans to the private sector were down by 0.2% in the year to June.
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Figures from the Bank of England show that bank lending to business, except for property lending, fell in the last nine months of 2009.
And as they do so, they are relaxing their lending terms and conditions, central-bank surveys show.
But it will take a lot longer for the bank to show that it really has cast off its accident-prone ways.
More detailed World Bank studies show respondents in some countries saying that corruption is prevalent but not a menace to business.
The accounting department, he says, claimed it never received the payments, but Vargas' bank records show the checks were cashed and stamped by Cintas.
At least two studies, one for the World Bank and the other for the Asian Development Bank, show that the effect is not significant.
The estimates for 2010 are partial but, says the bank, they show global poverty that year was half its 1990 level.
"Generally speaking I expect bank results to show improvement, albeit from stress levels, during the second quarter, " says Barclays Capital analyst Jason Goldberg.
But studies by the New York Federal Reserve Bank and others show that most Chinese imports are intermediate goods that are assembled into finished products in China and then sent to foreign markets.
Moreover, while the Federal Reserve has stopped cutting its key interest rate target for the time being, the central bank does not show any signs of raising rates above the 2% mark any time soon--a good indication of the dollar's relative weakness.
On unchanged policies, the Bank's forecasts show inflation slightly further below target in two to three years.
Also, the series of cost-cutting measures implemented by the bank are beginning to show a positive impact on the bottom-line.
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That compromise, as the World Bank's numbers show, would forgo most of the potential economic benefits of the Doha round.
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Figures from the British Bankers Association (BBA) show that bank credit to small businesses in particular grew by 10% in the 12 months to September.
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Minutes released this week of its meeting earlier this month show the Bank's monetary policy committee worrying about two risks from the rise in consumer debt.
The charges made against UBS show the bank not only manipulated the Libor rate to make itself look healthier to outsiders but also, and perhaps more often, to make money by apparently colluding with other banks.
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In the Citigroup lawsuit, for example, lawyers needed to show that bank executives acted with scienter, or guilty knowledge, when they loaded the bank up with soon-to-be-worthless derivatives that were a byproduct of their mortgage-backed securities business.
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The Federal Open Market Committee will end a two-day policy-setting meeting later Wednesday that is likely to show central bank officials are more upbeat about the economy but not enough to tighten loose-borrowing costs that have encouraged risk-taking, economists say.
Figures from the Bank of England this week show that lending to businesses has continued to fall.
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As it happens, the Bank's latest forecasts show the UK economy getting back to its pre-recession peak in roughly two years - in 2014.
On one occasion, the records show, the bank got the elevation of a cleric to a bishopric delayed until his father, a cardinal (yes), had repaid his own and his son's debts.
Americans are borrowing more to pay for college while reducing other debt as a weak job market prompts more people to go to school and tuition keeps climbing, new Federal Reserve Bank of New York data show.
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