Nor will our central bank seek once again to dramatically increase the size of its balance sheet.
There are also caps on the size of the balance that would earn the highest interest rates.
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Even so companies may well have to draw on uncommitted credit facilities with banks, expanding the size of bank balance-sheets.
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What makes matters worse is that these same assets are still being hyped in potential and size to leverage balance sheets.
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It is now the smallest of Wall Street's four major firms, in both market capitalization and the size of its balance sheet.
But in the past two years the Federal Reserve has been a big buyer, more than doubling the size of its balance sheet.
All of this having been said, the best solution would be for the Fed to simply reduce the size of its balance sheet.
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In the past, the premiums they paid into a central emergency-fund for bailing out troubled banks were crudely linked to the size of their balance sheets.
The ECB has been widely criticized for increasing the size of its balance sheet by purchasing government bonds and through other nonstandard measures to address the euro zone's debt crisis.
In addition to reducing the target Fed Funds rate from 1% to a range between 0% and 0.25%, the FOMC promised to use open market operations and other measures to sustain the increased size of its balance sheet.
Louis Fed president James Bullard has been a proponent of varying the rate of asset purchases to reflect the level of accommodation, while in the past Bernanke has said the total size of their balance sheet, rather than its rate of change, determined the level of monetary easing.
It can be the way a company records revenues or handles costs. (An example would be a firm that constantly claims extraordinary or one-time write-downs.) It could be that you are just not comfortable with the amount of money a company paid for an acquisition relative to the size of its balance sheet.
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Given the size of Dexia, with a 500bn euro plus balance sheet - comparable in size to all Greek banks put together - eurozone governments viewed its rescue as vital to avoid more market turmoil.
Lack of co-ordination has been blamed for making the financial crisis worse, with national authorities not aware of the true size of banks' balance sheets within their borders.
But Gilberto, who was greeted by over 1, 000 fans when he arrived in Greece, insisted he is motivated by the chance to win titles and not the size of his bank balance.
Similarly, I want to encourage you to think about expenditures in the context of the income that your investments can produce as opposed to the size of your bank balance (or your credit limit).
This is the proposal that the biggest UK banks should have enough capital, plus loans that could be converted into capital, to cope with losses equal to one-fifth of the size of their total balance sheet.
Although Mr Koizumi has had close ties to the finance ministry, upon taking office he was initially more concerned with overhauling expenditures, and their effect on Japanese politics, than with the size of the fiscal balance itself.
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It also said that it's monitoring the size and composition of its balance sheet, and will make adjustments as warranted.
The HSBC branch on Manhattan's 14th Street was an imposing structure back in the day when a bank's physical size said something about its balance sheet.
The decision by the Fed to offer emergency liquidity to Bear Stearns and to facilitate its acquisition by JPMorgan Chase had less to do with the size of Bear's balance-sheet than with its central role in markets for credit-default and interest-rate swaps.
Tight correlations across industries, nations, and stock-size categories make it difficult to balance one kind of equity against another for a smoother ride.
On the negative side, the ECB is contracting its balance sheet footings in size, as of February at an annualized three month rate of 33%.
Following a summer full of negative US data, the FOMC chose only to keep their balance sheet the same size and not allow it to shrink.
That then increases the size of the hole in their balance sheets, and therefore the scale of the official rescue from taxpayers they will eventually require.
Placing a limit on the size of transactions and the total balance that can be stored reduces the risk of mobile money being used to launder cash.
Fed critics are focused on the rapid increase in the size of the Fed's balance sheet, but, as I've written here, much of that expansion is benign.
They cite the sharp increase in the size of the Fed's balance sheet and the recent expansion of bank reserves and money measures as prima facie evidence of looming inflation.
The balance sheet has doubled in size in the past two years.
Mooted new accounting rules may increase the size of pension liabilities on firms' balance sheets, and other proposals could exacerbate the effect of swings in the value of stocks and bonds.
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