1.   Also today, the Federal Reserve reported American banks, faced with rising loan defaults, continue to raise standards for extending credit card and other consumer loans.

2.   Among its problems are a slumping property market and resulting loan defaults and low export growth.

3.   And that increased domestic production would force the government to severely curtail foreign imports in order to prevent loan defaults, they said.

4.   As a professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, Durand applied sampling analysis to subjects like consumer loan defaults and farm mortgages.

5.   As interest rates surge, it increases the likelihood of more loan defaults, especially for banks and finance companies that have been lending excessively in the past.

6.   As part of the loan agreement with Hunt, Symington pledged half his partnership interest in the Esplanade, should loan default occur.

7.   Bank stocks have fallen in the past weeks on concern the recent surge in rates alongside the falling peso would lead to increased loan defaults.

8.   Banks fell, haunted by the specter of continued bankruptcies at home and the possibility of loan defaults elsewhere in Asia.

9.   Banks fell, haunted by the specter of continued bankruptcies at home and the possibility of loan defaults in Asia.

10.   Banks led the decline, amid concern increasing loan defaults from property developers could hammer earnings.