Other card issuers also are turning their backs on higher-risk customers. From Wordnik.com. [Advanta Leaves Credit-Card Niche] Reference
This was mostly the result of loans to low-income, higher-risk borrowers. From Wordnik.com. [How Government Stoked the Mania] Reference
The firm's muni-funds unit has long favored higher-risk, higher-yielding bonds. From Wordnik.com. [How Fund Families Compare] Reference
But it isn't turning away from all fixed income or other higher-risk situations. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Cuts Risk, Loses Bond Managers] Reference
The idea is for institutions deemed to be higher-risk to pay bigger insurance fees. From Wordnik.com. [Bank Pay: FDIC Considers Tying Fees To Executive Compensation Levels] Reference
That includes low-risk cardholders who would have to subsidize higher-risk customers. From Wordnik.com. [The Credit Card Congress] Reference
And detainees at Guantanamo would then fall into that general area of higher-risk individuals. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2009] Reference
The detainees at Guantanamo would then fall into that general area of higher-risk individuals. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2009] Reference
ATP helps fund higher-risk, higher-payoff investments that can yield enormous economic benefits. From Wordnik.com. [Vp Announces New Efforts To Crack Down On Software Piracy] Reference
The market for "subprime" mortgage loans, those held by higher-risk borrowers, had begun to slide. From Wordnik.com. [What the Committee Knew] Reference
That idea is based on the commonsense view that higher-risk customers should pay higher interest rates. From Wordnik.com. [Hank Paulson's Fannie Gamble] Reference
Argentina and Venezuela are also at risk, after the sharp rally in higher-risk external sovereign debt. From Wordnik.com. [Pimco Embraces Emerging-Market Corporate Debt] Reference
The FHA program has seen a rise in popularity as private lenders have turned away higher-risk borrowers. From Wordnik.com. [A New Way for Homeowners to Cope] Reference
Meanwhile, new issuance is from lower-rated, higher-risk companies, so average spreads should remain higher. From Wordnik.com. [Easy Money Is Over for European Bonds] Reference
The agency said the change was triggered by falling home prices and "poor performance" of higher-risk mortgages. From Wordnik.com. [Freddie Mac Loosens Rule] Reference
And detainees at Guantanamo would, then, fall into that -- that general -- general area of higher-risk individuals. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2009] Reference
Moreover, for both these higher-risk and normal individuals, interventions should not be thought of as one-time cure-alls. From Wordnik.com. [Alvaro Fernandez: Why You'll Need A Personal Brain Trainer] Reference
"Money is moving out of the safe havens of gold and silver and back into the higher-risk stock indices," Mr. Epstein said. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Futures Fall to $941.80 as Some Investors Take Profits] Reference
The following years saw Talbott featured in dozens of news stories about pressuring banks into higher-risk minority loans. From Wordnik.com. [Great meltdowns from little acorns grow...] Reference
Aozora has increasingly put its abundant capital to work by investing in higher-risk products with potentially higher returns. From Wordnik.com. [Aozora Bank Profit Fell 75% in Quarter] Reference
Yet the German government has detailed financial support only for Magna, the more complex, controversial and higher-risk offer. From Wordnik.com. [Who Will Blink First in GM's Berlin Standoff?] Reference
It is also the result of a new-found faith in corporate bonds, straddling low-return government bonds and higher-risk equities. From Wordnik.com. [Time for Insurance?] Reference
Businesses may have to wait months to offer the H1N1 vaccine because the first rounds will be rationed out to higher-risk groups. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2009] Reference
Today, most insurers try to select healthier enrollees and avoid exposure to higher-risk enrollees and their higher costs of care. From Wordnik.com. [John Geyman: "Expanding Access to Care": The Health Insurance Industry's Magic at Work] Reference
"Credit-card lending is a higher-loss business than mortgages, but that does not make it a higher-risk business," Mr. Perlin said. From Wordnik.com. [Capital One Avoided a Big Mess] Reference
Two of Africa's higher-risk rivers for subsiding deltas are the Nile and Zambezi, the continent's second and fourth largest rivers. From Wordnik.com. [Lori Pottinger: Not-So-Muddy Waters Put Millions at Risk] Reference
But it denied an additional 1% rate of return the company had sought as an incentive for investing in newer, higher-risk technology. From Wordnik.com. [Change in the Air] Reference
Indeed, Citi said that one way it has boosted recent profits was by shifting some of its cash into higher-risk assets "at the margin.". From Wordnik.com. [Citigroup Profit More Than Doubles] Reference
The government has the discretion to levy higher fees on higher-risk banks, but those are the institutions that often can least afford it. From Wordnik.com. [FDIC Faces Balancing Act in Replenishing Its Coffers] Reference
However, the higher-risk approach could have made things worse: parents who invested in F&C's Active Capital Trust would now have a fund of £129. From Wordnik.com. [Child trust funds: the clock is ticking] Reference
Mohawk Industries is a higher-risk play on both falling energy prices -- the carpet maker uses oil-based raw materials -- and an eventual housing rebound. From Wordnik.com. [Falling-Commodities Plan] Reference
That stalling could continue still, as investors shy away from higher-risk, lower-quality names, said Satya Pradhuman, director of research for Cirrus Research. From Wordnik.com. [Energy Stocks Power Rally in Small-Caps] Reference
Investors have been demanding higher-risk premiums for holding the debt to compensate for the added risk of volatility and are shunning maturities beyond six months. From Wordnik.com. ['Safe Yield' From Financials?] Reference
Now, as banks back away from that potentially higher-risk group, they're looking at ways to encourage customers to charge more and purchase additional products and services. From Wordnik.com. [By Choice and By Force, Consumers Cut Back on Plastic] Reference
Notably, the White House wants to give the FHA the ability to charge higher premiums for higher-risk deals -- for instance, those involving homeowners with low credit scores. From Wordnik.com. [Hope Arises for Housing-Bill Deal] Reference
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