It was matched by a dire performance from the finance arm of the us industrial behemoth General Electric, whose profits dipped 42% thanks to bad credit card debts and business loans.

美国工业巨头通用电气公司旗下的金融部门的业绩同样悲惨。受累于不良的信用卡债务和商业贷款，通用电气公司第三季利润下滑42%。

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The amount of aid the financial system ultimately needs depends on the long-term performance of the economy, which in turn rests partly on how successfully the system is cleansed of bad debts.

经济系统的援助数量最终取决于经济的长期表现，而经济的长期表现好坏又部分取决于清除不良贷款有多么成功。

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China's big state-controlled banks were among the largest initial public offerings in the world when they listed in recent years, but their recent stock performance has been weak, as investors worry that they are carrying bad debts on their books.

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