deleverage

The idea is that official exposure would ‘organically’ deleverage over time.

It can be associated with slow economic growth, deflation, and deleverage.

This is likely to result in Moody's initial assumptions of deleverage not being met for some time.

The same principles apply to the "paradox of deleverage".

Balance sheet deleverage may become increasingly popular.

The decrease was the result of lower pre-opening expenses, partly offset by deleverage due to sales declines.

(4) Cost inflation running at 4% with a declining top line will lead to significant operational deleverage for this operationally geared company.

Deleverage of occupancy, selling, general and administrative expenses resulted from the weaker than anticipated comparable store sales."

It did not go through the same financial crisis and does not have the same deleverage issue that western economies have.”

Second, the only way to let the private sector deleverage, without mass bankruptcy and huge falls in spending, is by substituting the asset everybody wants: government debt.

We have previously highlighted that, given the level of deleverage in the product, we calculate risk to revenues in the region of $100m.

The stake sale was part of AIG's effort to monetize non-core assets, reduce risk and deleverage.

But as Richard Koo of Nomura Research has argued, fiscal deficits help the private sector deleverage.

There was a negative impact of 260 basis points reflecting the deleverage of the underlying cost base as a result of the decline in same store sales.

This is deleverage at its most vicious,' said analyst John Reade at UBS in a research note.

AMG's revenue-share business model has provided more operating deleverage protection in down markets, making it a valuable commodity in today's environment, Goldman added.

This is due to a weaker LFL sales outlook in the UK, along with input cost pressure and rising opex leading to operating deleverage.

Asia's low debt to GDP and massive foreign exchange reserves stand in marked contrast to the over indebted West, which still faces years of growth stultifying deleverage.

As far as we can remember, this is the first time the central bank (or any other government economic agency) has used the "D" word [deleverage] in an official document.

Despite actions to reduce costs, because of lower total sales, particularly in our utility business, fixed costs were not fully absorbed resulting in operational deleverage and lower profitability."

Overspending countries are now retrenching, owing to the need to reduce their private and public spending, to import less, and to reduce their external deficits and deleverage.

The decrease in dollars reflects increased efficiency in the management of expenses and the increase in the rate was primarily due to the deleverage of negative comparable same-store sales.

This is deleverage at its most vicious and it is distorting relationships of and between assets and implying weird inputs to valuation models according to my equity colleagues.

"Eventually, this liquidation pressure will force central banks to intervene but up to the moment of intervention, ongoing deleverage will keep the yen in demand," BNP Paribas analysts wrote.

An improved economy could help banks by limiting credit losses from the housing slump and other consumer and commercial debt, as banks work to reduce risk on their balance sheets, or deleverage.