1.   Barclaycard is now beginning the battle to keep its place in the credit market.

2.   One of the main reasons cited has been the importance of liberalisation of credit markets and the introduction of new types of financial assets.

3.   All those years of warnings about how big budget deficits would be destructive to the credit markets never proved valid.

4.   And banks, which borrow in short-term credit markets and lend for longer terms, will be badly hurt.

5.   And the fear that gripped the credit markets last fall is all but gone, replaced by more concrete concern that inflation could stage a comeback.

6.   As Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin translated in a conversation the other day, this means Mexico has been welcomed back to the private credit markets.

7.   Australian bonds tend to track U.S. bonds, the benchmark for global credit markets.

8.   Banks and other companies typically turn to the highly liquid short-end of the U.S. credit market for immediate funding needs.

9.   Because of its federal charter, it can raise vast sums in credit markets on favorable terms.

10.   Banks and other companies typically turn to the highly liquid U.S. credit market for immediate funding needs.