They stepped beyond their mandates to provide quick financial support to investment banks, mostly by supplying private banks with liquid instruments in exchange for longer term and less liquid assets.

Moreover, the new rules will require banks to hold more liquid assets. It is easy to guess which assets the authorities consider liquid public debt.

Cash and investments are the main liquid assets of UNDP.

Liquid assets are assets that resemble cash, because they can easily be converted into cash and used to buy other assets.

This can be compared with current assets such as cash or bank accounts, which are described as liquid assets.

Financial assets are usually more liquid than tangible assets, such as commodities or real estate, and may be traded on financial markets.

Finally, while assets nowadays are much more liquid, this has not boosted long term productive investment.

A further amount of 1,117,840 was written off during 2004 in respect of non liquid assets.

Once upon a time, policymakers understood that the government should tweak asset supplies to ensure sufficient supplies of liquid assets, safe assets, and savings vehicles.

If the market wants more safe, high quality, liquid financial assets, give the market what it wants.

As Keynes liked to say Unemployment develops...because people want the moon safe, secure, and liquid assets.

This signals a remarkable shift in relative demand for high quality and liquid financial assets an extraordinary rise in market wide excess demand for such assets.

This value should be added to the return that is attributed to various classes of liquid assets in normal times, thereby affecting the relative attractiveness of liquid and illiquid assets and influencing the asset allocation choices made by various classes of investors.

It is considered less risky because some of its assets are less risky than others.

Creditworthy governments around the world can create more safe, liquid, high quality financial assets through a number of channels.

The obvious solution is for governments to create more cash to satisfy the demand for safe, secure, liquid assets.

When assets are seen as less risky, their prices rise.

Of course, farmland is much less important than other speculative assets.

And global financial markets are now telling us that this excess demand for safe, liquid, high quality financial assets has just gotten bigger.

a This balance of liquid assets is additional to investments held for the operational reserve ( 154 million in 2004, 142 million in 2003).

Saudi businesswomen owned approximately 30 per cent of liquid assets deposited in banks, and were very active in the commercial and economic sectors.

Initially, these countries invested their foreign reserves in liquid assets short term United States Treasury bills and government securities issued by other reserve currency countries. Then they realized that their holdings in liquid and low return assets far exceed what is needed to avoid the type of speculative runs that East Asia experienced in 1997, and Russia in 1998.

Bipropellant liquid rockets generally use a liquid fuel and a liquid oxidizer, such as liquid hydrogen or a hydrocarbon fuel such as RP 1, and liquid oxygen.

The liquid is actually that clear liquid.

The key problem in times like these is that investor demand for safe, secure, and liquid assets and thus their value is too high, while demand for assets that underpin and finance the economy s productive capital is too low.

When the prices of even safe assets fall and interest rates climb to sky high levels because traders and financiers collectively want more liquid assets than currently exist, it is simply not safe to let the market sort things out.

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Assets bubbles will not disappear, but they will be less likely to be turbocharged by leverage.

During 2004, UNHCR had to write off liquid assets totalling 216,923 in respect of unrecoverable amounts due from operational partners and cash losses that occurred in various field locations.

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Narrow banking, which entails retail deposits being kept in distinct entities, backed only by safe and liquid assets like government bonds, does not fare well under the All Souls microscope.

Liquid nitrogen is nitrogen in a liquid state at an extremely low temperature.

Liquid hydrogen (LH2 or LH2) is the liquid state of the element hydrogen.

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Emerging market countries could also invest in euros, if only they were offered such liquid assets as US Treasury bonds therein lies the current debate over the proposed creation of eurobonds.

Emerging economies, following the advanced countries, also attached less importance to Fund surveillance, especially as their accumulation of external assets made them less dependent on IMF financing and advice.

Adequate volumetric liquid capacity to handle liquid surges (slugs) from the wells and or flowlines.

In theory, taxing immobile assets is less distortionary, though taxes on structures obviously can discourage both maintenance and new construction.

Leverage was lower in several sectors. Financial institutions and, more importantly, households held less debt relative to assets and income.

While such investment in long term productive assets like infrastructure is essential to generating the income that these investors demand, less than 1 of pension fund assets are allocated directly to infrastructure projects.

On top of all this, there is a shadow financial system of non bank financial institutions that, like banks, borrow short and liquid and lend to or invest in longer term and illiquid assets.

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Typical administration involves a pill or liquid containing sodium iodide (NaI) taken orally, which contains a small amount of iodine 131, amounting to perhaps less than a grain of salt.

The idea seems to be that there are a lot of liquid assets lying around, and that they are being used to get money to bid up the prices of stocks, housing, land, art, etc.

LVF Liquid volume fraction is the ratio of the liquid volumetric flow rate to the total volumetric flow rate.