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Example Sentences
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When tensions between the two economic juggernauts flared, investors looking for a neutral place to hide were left with gold as a default reserve asset, Gavekal writes.
From Barron's
Maybe, but taxpayers may pay a bigger price later if this results in more defaults.
A new report from Goldman Sachs, though, reassures investors that even in the event of a default rate of 10% — comparable to that of the global financial crisis in 2008-09 — large macroeconomic spillovers are unlikely.
From MarketWatch
Private-credit managers are facing an ongoing reckoning as individual investors stampede out of private-credit funds, worried about a downturn in software, a number of high-profile defaults and restrictions accessing their money.
In most cases, the ability to claim a child defaults to the person known as the custodial parent, who is the one the children live with the majority of the time.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
