1.   If this brings bank reserves below their prudent ratio, banks will reduce advances.

2.   And bank reserves have dwindled significantly.

3.   Bank reserves are high.

4.   Bonds also got a lift after the Fed said it was buying Treasury securities to alleviate a seasonal shortage of bank reserves caused by an influx of tax payments.

5.   Big Taiwan banks began a new round of interest-rate cuts to spur lending as economic growth slows and bank reserves pile up.

6.   Additionally, the Fed refrained from altering bank reserve requirements, a third weapon in its monetary policy arsenal -- and the most rarely used.

7.   Additionally, the Fed refrained from altering bank reserve requirements, a third weapon in its monetary policy arsenal --and the most rarely used.

8.   Concrete evidence that prices are falling or that bank reserves are dipping to dangerous levels, threatening a credit crunch.

9.   However, bank Governor Sheu Yuan-dong earlier this month ruled out reducing the bank reserve.

10.   Philippine stocks rose, paced by property companies, on hopes that a cut in bank reserves will lead to lower borrowing costs.