"Even if we had taken it now it would not have counted as a factor in regulatory capital or balance sheet capital, " its spokesman said.
Or is the balance sheet recession simply continuing apace until the painful process of deleveraging runs its course?
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They have just been shifted to another balance sheet or pushed out into the future.
During this time, the entity has two options: fall deeper into debt or shore up its balance sheet.
Nowhere on the income statement, balance sheet or cash flow statement is there any mention of reserves or valuation allowances.
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Very few companies have the balance sheet or stomach for ultra-deep exploration.
"We're not willing to let a small group leverage our balance sheet or take big proprietary risks that can blow up the franchise, " says Moglia.
What is left is free cash flow that can either be added to the balance sheet or distributed to shareholders via dividends or float shrink.
More troubling are the banks that are forced by regulators to increase capital ratios by shrinking their balance sheet or in other words, stop making loans.
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My point in bringing this up is that it does lend credence to the idea that the FOMC may slow or stop growing the balance sheet sooner rather than later.
As Peter Hahn of the Cass Business School in London points out, a bank that suddenly increases its market share, or expands its balance-sheet, is usually the one to watch.
One of the timeless truths of personal finance is that a balanced approach to these three objectives benefits everyone, regardless of the number of zeros on your personal balance sheet or income statement.
Mortgage lending has not rebounded (and housing sales are weak), consumer spending seems pretty moderate, and most business either have ample cash already on the balance sheet or no immediate plans to expand.
For most people, the value of their employment exceeds the value of their assets by a wide margin, and this asset has some special characteristics that make it differ from typical items on a balance sheet or brokerage statement.
"No one can question the deterioration in the sovereign balance sheet or banking system, but it seems counterintuitive to cite possible financing gaps when a large, " bond issuance was about to close, said Richard Segal, emerging market strategist at Jefferies International.
It stimulates management to use financial engineering, such as off balance sheet financing or layering earnings through acquisitions and other games.
Is it on the league table, in wins and defeats, or is it on the balance sheet, in profit and loss?
For me, this global recession is not to be measured just in statistics, or in graphs or in figures on a balance sheet.
Importantly, we believe this strategy would require no immediate use of cash other than the ongoing dividend, and would not pose any maturity, re-financing, balance sheet, or default risk.
They will decline in value, which will quickly make the Fed insolvent, and a further liability to the people of the US. So either the Fed sells the bonds and reduces bank reserves, further tightening an already tightening lending market, or it really weakens its balance sheet.
It is widely expected that the Federal Reserve will announce more balance sheet expansion, or quantitative easing, on Wednesday.
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Yes, he seems to have ruled out including the ECB balance sheet directly - or indirectly - in any explicit "firewall" to protect the euro, for example by having the ECB lend to the emergency rescue fund, or the IMF.
But most of those initiatives have either failed to get off the drawing board, such as the MLEC, which was aimed at relieving banks of their off-balance-sheet liabilities, or they have fallen short, such as the HOPE NOW Alliance for modifying mortgages.
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The price of any single stock in isolation is affected by its current and projected earnings, the degree of reliability of those projections, its balance sheet, its dividend or prospect of a dividend, the relative attractiveness of alternative investments and many more factors.
"Ideally, we like to find a company with a strong core business, a good brand name, a new or at least revitalized management team and a solid balance sheet, " writes Putnam.
Almost any city or town would be bankrupt if it put on its balance sheet the commitment to provide health care for retired employees.
To patch up the hole in its balance sheet the Fed would have to beg Congress or the U.S. Treasury for a bailout.
Two more likely options are for the company to leverage its incredibly strong balance sheet, returning more cash to shareholders, or cutting expenses.
Activist shareholders want Home Depot to leverage up the balance sheet far more and buy back shares, or sell the real estate or spin off the HD Supply wholesale business.
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