Banks displayed the most confidence in China, where foreign lending grew to $ 63.1 billion, from $ 57.9 billion, between June and December.
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Lending at Santander's Spanish unit grew almost 13 percent, while total lending rose 42 percent, lifted by 134 percent increase in foreign lending.
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Major American banks and investment firms are announcing big overseas losses, which might force them to retrench on domestic as well as foreign lending.
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"The budget deficit is essentially consumption supported by foreign lending, " said Stephen S . Roach, chief economist at Morgan Stanley, the investment bank.
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The ministry also lifted a ban on foreign lending by life insurers and removed restrictions on the purchase of Euroyen bonds by Japanese investors.
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Foreign lending to Argentina leapt almost 36 percent, to $ 60 . 4 billion, while lending to Chile, Brazil, Russia, Hungary and Poland also rose.
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As Finance Minister, he proposed an austere economic policy, limiting foreign lending and advocating increased taxation, among other measures imposing a tax on alcoholic drinks.
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Now, politicians and civic leaders in the region _ and in foreign lending countries _ are saying the debt is unpayable and must be cancelled.
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Already, China must grapple with a drought of new foreign lending even as its economy slows to its lowest growth rate since the early 1990s.
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Foreign currency reserves have fallen to such a critical minimum that immediate, wide-scale privatization and foreign lending are indispensable, a central bank official said Friday.
