repair sheets

The recent round of stress tests has not dispelled fears that undercapitalised institutions have been banking on a recovery to allow them to retain sufficient earnings to repair balance sheets.

最近一轮压力测试并未消除人们的担心，那就是资本金不足的金融机构一直在指望借助复苏来获取足够的利润以修复自身资产负债表。

Many in Beijing and elsewhere are now asking whether the likes of RBS will be tempted to sell out and Book handsome profits in order to help repair balance sheets strained by the financial turmoil.

北京及其它地方的许多人目前希望知道，苏格兰皇家银行等机构是否有意出售所持股份，录得丰厚利润，以帮助修弥因金融动荡而受损的资产负债表。

Analysts expect the sharp economic downturnwill force some banks to raise equity capital to either fund loan growth or repair weak balance sheets.

分析师预计，亚洲经济大幅下滑将迫使一些银行增加股本金，或是为贷款增长融资，或是修复疲弱的资产负债表。

That shift, however, has turned as financial companies raise equity capital to repair balance sheets, private equity deals slow to a trickle and the cost of raising corporate debt rises sharply as its availability dries up.

然而，这一趋势已经开始转变，金融公司提高股本以改善资产负债状况，私人股本交易骤减，只有少量交易，同时，随着债券发行市场的枯竭，公司发债成本亦大幅上升。

Banks are scaling back as they look to repair battered balance sheets.

许多银行都在减少放贷，以期修补不好看的资产负债表。

There are very clear limits to what central banks can do, Mr Cecchetti said, summing up the annual report. They cannot repair balance sheets. They cannot increase productivity. And they cannot put policy on a sustainable path.

切凯蒂在概述年度报告时表示：各国央行能做的事十分有限，它们无法修补资产负债表，它们无法提高生产率，它们也无法让政策走上可持续的道路。

So China's savers, without knowing it, may be helping to repair bank balance sheets.

于是，毫不知情的中国储户可能正在帮忙修复银行的资产负债表。