"What's happening in the last few months is that more are looking at cross-border opportunities, particularly in Europe, " where a number of good brands are struggling with liquidity problems or distressed assets, said Steve Lim, chief executive of J.
Providing greater short-term liquidity might ease the taking back of assets on to banks' balance sheets and hence bring down interbank rates.
And if a lack of liquidity is the problem in some credit instruments, the Fed's direct purchase of those assets should contribute to a credit thaw.
Mr. Mints says he would welcome the return of more institutional investors to Moscow as it would work to increase the value of O1 Properties' assets and bring more liquidity to the Russian market.
In 2008, Ventas accelerated its balance sheet and liquidity improvement by raising equity, selling assets and increasing bank lines of credit.
Its current ratio, a measure of liquidity, is low, with current liabilities often bigger than current assets.
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It would also improve market liquidity for assets eligible as security for central-bank money, to the benefit of overall financial stability.
Treasuries fell slightly from their recent levels, as yields on the 10-year government bonds inched up to 2.95% from below 2.90% at the start of the week, showing that investors may be thinking about moving out of safe assets now, just two short days before the Fed stops pumping liquidity into Treasury markets as its QE2 program comes to a close.
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"The rapid expansion of trust assets in 2012 has possibly increased the industry's credit risk and liquidity risk, " National Trust said in its earnings report.
Liquidity for major non-financial corporations has never been better as measured by the high ratio of liquid assets to current liabilities.
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At the same time, the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan have led global central banks in flooding the market with liquidity, forcing investors into riskier assets such as stocks.
However, there is another important effect which is that one of the reasons why folks want to hold these specific assets is that they are using them as a form of collateral, which provides them with liquidity.
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