Buoyed by cheap credit and an improving U.S. economy, auto sales are gaining momentum.
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The industry is booming on the back of cheap credit, courtesy of the Fed.
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Bank profits soared in the years before the crisis as Western economies binged on cheap credit.
Powerful state-owned enterprises, used to cheap credit, land and energy, will resist threats to these privileges.
Everybody is to blame, because everybody bought into the cheap credit, the house price increases all the greed.
This caused an end to the cheap credit that had fuelled the unsustainable growth in its housing market.
The current low interest rate environment is ideally suited for Unilever to take advantage of cheap credit available.
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The European Central Bank has provided banks with cheap credit and bought sovereign debt to try to restrain yields.
Which is the larger factor contributing to the money glut and cheap credit?
But money is money, so the infusion of cheap credit will help the carmakers pay their bills next year.
During the boom, companies had access to cheap credit, which increased the number of profitable projects they could fund.
Together with the government, it will provide billions of pounds of cheap credit to banks to lend to companies.
One reason was that asset bubbles and cheap credit eased life for everyone.
Would it make sense to continue extending cheap credit to state-owned heavy manufacturers at the expense of greener private-sector start-ups?
Spending was driven by a boom in cheap credit and the prices of assets, which were forever being pushed higher.
The government also gives handouts to farmers, in the form of cheap credit, though it is far less generous than America's.
Much of the world, including as we all know, the United States, became hooked on cheap credit and governmental deficits soared.
In August Brazil's trade and industry minister Fernando Pimentel unveiled tax breaks, cheap credit and a misconceived government preference for buying local.
The unbanked often use expensive cheque-cashing services, and they have little access to cheap credit, forcing them to approach moneylenders for short-term cash.
During the boom years Vladimir Putin, then president, took full credit for the rising commodity prices and cheap credit that spurred economic growth.
Owners of banks, for example, are no longer allowed to extend cheap credit to their other businesses one way the tycoons built their empires.
Cheap credit, lax loan terms and willing bond buyers fueled the dealmaking frenzy and then shared the blame for driving many companies under.
The government this month offered cheap credit to producers of shoes, textiles and furniture who are struggling in the face of Chinese competition.
The bankruptcy is a milestone because, until now, China's larger struggling solar companies have been kept afloat by cheap credit and indirect state support.
Were the cancelled deals so marginal, and so dependent on cheap credit, that a relatively small rise in the cost of debt ruined them?
With cheap credit, deals got pricier and valuations higher, to the point where some transactions were about as carefully assessed as a Monopoly trade.
The state banking system, for instance, keeps deposit rates low so that it can provide cheap credit to over-leveraged state enterprises and cash-strapped local governments.
The strong euro gave economically weak countries artificially cheap credit to gorge on, and then saddled them with an exchange rate incompatible with their competitiveness.
Dynamic Indian firms establish themselves in new markets without government help, but they grumble that rivals, notably state-owned Chinese ones, enjoy cheap credit and diplomatic backing.
Yet thanks to the huge pile of debts they had run up in the era of cheap credit, Japanese companies could not afford to pay more.
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