Creating a solid credit history as an authorized user on a shared card.
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Some experts say that as the economy continues to improve lenders will gradually lower the benchmark for solid credit.
But even with mortgage rates near a 50-year low, too many families with solid credit who want to buy a home are being rejected.
Meanwhile, in South Korea, which has a solid credit rating, renewed efforts to bail out the chaebol, family-controlled conglomerates, should help to keep government-bond yields higher than they might be.
It looks anything but a solid credit.
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Gilles Assouline loves to joke about being searched by airport security when his solid gold credit card sets off alarms.
Target posted third quarter earnings before the bell on Wednesday beating top and bottom line expectations as sales were solid and the credit card unit improved its performance.
But as long as they had at least a gold credit card and a solid professional or civil-service job to go back to, they were free to come to Japan, to shop until they dropped.
Additionally, an improved net interest margin and a reduced provision for credit losses led to the solid year-over-year growth.
The credit card company has had a solid trailing 12 months, rallying more than 23% over that time, but it has considerably underperformed rivals Visa, MasterCard, and Discover, which have all surged more than 50%.
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"The government's stimulus measures implemented last year have managed to stabilise growth and lay the foundations for solid expansion this year, " said Dariusz Kowalczyk of Credit Agricole CIB.
Many credit him with keeping the nation's financial system solid amid a wave of global shocks.
Larger companies, for example, discussed the need for open communication with important suppliers, including discussing new payment policies, credit terms or other plans -- when backed up by a solid business case -- as the need arose.
Canada, with solid banks and a diversified economy, has so far escaped the worst of the credit crunch.
The solid earnings reported by many European banks in the first half should ease jitters in credit markets about their solvency and underscore their ability to earn their way out of trouble something the stress tests modelled, but in a way few investors found believable.
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Early music sets by solid live acts are a good way to start your evening, but bring cash as credit cards are not accepted.
With the biggest firms already swamped with credit, foreign banks are starting to look at second-tier, usually less solid companies.
So as the US credit outlook turns negative, and yields continue to be unattractive, the big emerging markets are solid alternatives.
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Weill, who built the company in a series of acquisitions starting in the late 1980s, when he rescued a little Baltimore commercial credit firm, said the financial conglomerate model now under fire at Citi and elsewhere is a solid model and worth fighting for.
Xerox, Lucent and Kmart, among others, have drawn down billions in bank loans as their credit ratings have sunk, calling in promises made by banks when these borrowers looked a lot more solid.
Other positives included a solid reduction in headcount of 9, 000, improving net interest margins and better-than-expected improvements in credit quality.
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