Until the credit squeeze, Europeans could afford to take a relaxed view of an American slowdown.
After a massive stimulus in 2009, the country may now be facing a credit squeeze.
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Nonetheless, parts of the economy may still be caught in a genuine credit squeeze.
Big retail footfalls have been hurt by high rents, overcrowding of malls and a credit squeeze.
Even before the currency plunge, companies in both countries had started to feel the credit squeeze.
Because a credit squeeze raises market interest rates, it will slow the economy down.
Lewis, along with other bank bosses, faces investor leeriness about the credit squeeze and a possible recession.
The shake-out from the global credit squeeze led to the first run on a British bank for generations.
But those economic assumptions now look too rosy as the credit squeeze takes hold and the housing market swoons.
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When the ECB lengthened term loans it assisted addressing solvency and credibility, these actions simultaneously deterred a credit squeeze.
But he said the consumer-spending-slowdown and credit squeeze were expected to leave passenger numbers and group profits flat this year.
Declines in deposits, a majorsource of funds for banks to lend out, appeared to intensify a credit squeeze in many countries.
The bank already has the largest branch network in Spain, where the mortgage market was slowing even before the credit squeeze.
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That leaves the Mittelstand, the mid-sized firms that are the backbone of Germany's export-driven economy, most exposed to a credit squeeze.
The growth of lending to firms other than banks has slowed materially for the first time since the credit squeeze began.
Bernanke noted that financial markets remain under extreme strain and that the credit squeeze is a primary cause of the economic slowdown.
The Irish economy boomed in the decade until 2008, when it fell into recession as a result of the global credit squeeze.
Firms are hoarding cash in an environment of economic uncertainty as protection against the type of credit squeeze that occurred in 2008.
Last month, Moody's Investor Services said its commercial real estate price index fell 2.1% in September, likely resulting from the credit squeeze.
This credit squeeze will feed through to slower growth in three main areas, according to Charles Bean, the Bank of England's chief economist.
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For the moment, at least, his credit squeeze has restored calm.
The bank had been facing increasing calls to disclose the extent of its exposure to crisis-hit U.S. sub-prime mortgages and liabilities in the subsequent credit squeeze.
The beginning of a credit squeeze that caused interest rates to soar led to a decline in the two-wheeler market in the year to March 2008.
The central bank is trying to break the wage-price cycle by a credit squeeze but its efforts are being undermined by government spending on the war.
Green Tree Financial found itself in a life-threatening credit squeeze because the market had lost faith in its mortgage-backed securities and refused to refinance its short-term debt.
Financial-sector reform was essential, but the G-20 went too far: In seeking perfection, policy makers have delivered a profoundly pro-cyclical shock, resulting in a deflationary credit squeeze.
And how will the onset of a global credit squeeze affect what private-equity groups can pay for a capital-intensive business with a time horizon of three to five years?
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Some now predict that the blow to Cyprus's financial sector, which accounts for about half of economic activity, combined with an existing credit squeeze, will send output into a tailspin.
CDO, however, and in a credit squeeze they fall together, by virtue of being in the same murky structure, as investors rush for the exit or seek to hedge their risks.
Whereas China is boosting infrastructure spending to prop up demand, India's plans to build roads and power plants with the help of private money may be delayed by the credit squeeze.
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