Cancellations and delays to projects during the past couple of years have created a sharp drop in projects in the pipeline and collapsing order books for UK construction companies.
Yet this makes it hard even for companies with healthy order books to service their debts or to finance their trade.
While the law stipulated that banks should invest in Treasury securities in order to manage their books, the OCC has pushed for banks to be allowed to be able to trade other securities as well.
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Russia has also declined Iran's requests for fancier anti-aircraft missiles, saying its order books are full.
Mr Brown, Labour MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, will argue they have full order books and could be expanded.
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But Paul Sheridan of Ascend, an aviation consultancy, says that worldwide demand for air travel is growing so strongly that today's order books represent only 25-30% of the planes that airlines are likely to need in the coming 20 years.
Factories are only just recovering from a period of sustained strength for the pound, which has made UK exports more expensive, hitting order books hard.
It will increase competition from mid-sized firms trying will be trying to fill their order books, even at reduced prices, and this will make it even more difficult for smaller firms to offer prices with any hope of profit.
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It is like the auditors for the supermarket chain, Tesco, doing the audits and saying, overall, the books are in order but they know there is shoplifting going on somewhere yet cannot say exactly where.
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