liquidity situation

  • 1liquidity trap — UK US noun [S] ECONOMICS ► a situation in which a government is not able to encourage economic activity, for example by cutting interest rates, because people who have money do not want to spend it: »This carries the danger of the liquidity trap …

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  • 2Liquidity trap — A liquidity trap is a situation described in Keynesian economics in which injections of cash into an economy by a central bank fail to lower interest rates and hence to stimulate economic growth. A liquidity trap is caused when people hoard cash… …

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  • 3Liquidity Crisis — A negative financial situation characterized by a lack of cash flow. For a single business, a liquidity crisis occurs when the otherwise solvent business does not have the liquid assets (i.e., cash) necessary to meet its short term obligations,… …

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  • 4Liquidity Trap — A situation in which prevailing interest rates are low and savings rates are high, making monetary policy ineffective. In a liquidity trap, consumers choose to avoid bonds and keep their funds in savings because of the prevailing belief that… …

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  • 5Liquidity — Als Geldnachfrage (auch Liquiditätsnachfrage, Kassenhaltung) bezeichnet man den Bedarf der Wirtschaftssubjekte an Geld. Gemäß den Geldfunktionen wird Geld als Zahlungs und Wertaufbewahrungsmittel sowie als Recheneinheit und Vergleichsmaßstab… …

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  • 6liquidity — li|quid|i|ty [ lı kwıdəti ] noun uncount BUSINESS a situation in which a business has money or property that it can sell in order to pay money that it owes …

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  • 7liquidity — noun (U) technical 1 a situation in which you have money or goods that can be sold to pay debts 2 the state of being liquid 1 (1) …

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  • 8liquidity trap — A situation in which investors hold on to cash because they are worried about the likelihood of a fall in the price of financial assets. J. M. Keynes argued that in these circumstances monetary policy becomes ineffective, because monetary… …

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  • 9liquidity — UK [lɪˈkwɪdətɪ] / US noun [uncountable] business a situation in which a business has money or property that it can sell in order to pay money that it owes …

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  • 10gridlock situation — Situation that can arise in a system in which the failure of some transactions to be executed (because the necessary liquidity or securities balances are unavailable) prevents a substantial number of other transactions from other clients from… …

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