91. The effort to clean up the bad debts has brought on corporate bankruptcies, including a medium-sized construction company and a major retailer recently. 92. The report said an emergency loan guarantee program has helped small companies and the number of corporate bankruptcies has decreased sharply. 93. The weakening rupiah, tight liquidity and high interest rates have often been cited as factors responsible for shrinking domestic demand, corporate bankruptcy and the banking crisis. 94. There has been a sharp fall in the number of corporate bankruptcies. 95. They cut back to brace for more corporate bankruptcies and more layoffs, or because they thought it was the patriotic thing to do. 96. They have been wary of opening their wallets amid near-record unemployment and continued corporate bankruptcies. 97. This will cause the baht to slide against the greenback -- bringing additional pressure on the Thai economy and the prospect of more corporate bankruptcy. 98. With higher corporate bankruptcies and surging jobless rates in recent months, Japan is now struggling to bail the economy out of its worst recession since the war. 99. With record joblessness and corporate bankruptcies, it is easy to see why consumers are playing it safe. 100. Worse still, hundreds of thousands of jobs will just evaporate in the ensuring deluge of corporate bankruptcies. |