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15:05 Jan 19, 2010
English to Bosnian translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Finance (general)
Additional field(s): Business/Commerce (general), Investment / Securities
English term or phrase: deleverage
Definition from Investopedia:
A company's attempt to decrease its financial leverage. The best way for a company to delever is to immediately pay off any existing debt on its balance sheet. If it is unable to do this, the company will be in significant risk of defaulting.

Example sentence(s):
  • The Federal Reserve Chairman told an audience at the Chicago Federal Reserve Thursday that financial outfits need to deleverage and improve their ability to manage risk. Forbes.com
  • As leveraged investors begin to feel pain in their portfolios, not only do they begin to question broader risk exposure in a much more meaningful manner, but many are both forced to and many choose to deleverage, at least for a period, to stop the short term hemorrhaging. Gold Digest
  • American Restaurant Group, Inc. Reaches Agreement With Noteholders To Deleverage Its Balance Sheet. Goliath
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4Umanjenje (reduciranje) nivoa zaduživanja
Haris Kadric


  

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Umanjenje (reduciranje) nivoa zaduživanja


Definition from Dicionary.com:
Deleverage
The reduction of financial instruments or borrowed capital previously used to increase the potential return of an investment. It is the opposite of leverage.

Example sentence(s):
  • Svi se ispitanici slažu da je razdoblje visokih koeficijenta financiranja gotovo ili barem na neko vrijeme zaustavljeno, te da je pred financijskim institucijama doba smanjene razine zaduživanja (deleveraging). - Osiguranje.ba  
Haris Kadric
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Local time: 16:33
Native speaker of: Native in BosnianBosnian, Native in Serbo-CroatSerbo-Croat
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