liabilities
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And keep in mind, higher longer-term rates can provide a boost to bank earnings, as they earn more spread between long-term assets, like loans, that they fund with lower-rated shorter-term liabilities.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026
Nehls only disclosed a handful of bank accounts, stock and a mutual fund — all worth less than $15,000, while listing liabilities in the form of revolving credit from three credit card companies.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
Pension funds and insurers that need to match the durations of their liabilities with similar assets snap up the longest-dated bonds even when yields are absurdly low.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
But Witkoff himself had his own liabilities, people who worked in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden, and Trump administrations told me.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
Indeed, Dobzhansky recognized that natural variation was a vital reservoir for an organism—an asset that far outweighed its liabilities.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
