Sentences with phrase «us debt it buys»

A report by Bloomberg in January rattled markets by suggesting China was considering cutting back on the amount of US debt it buys, pointing to trade tensions as one of the reasons.

You may say that this is an artificial distinction, because the Fed is effectively part of the government; but legally, the distinction matters, and the debt bought by the Fed counts against the debt ceiling.

Christi Engle of Tyler, Texas, racked up more than $ 5,000 in credit card debt buying stuff that she did nt want or need at Wal - Mart.

If you did not know what to do this February 14, now you have some good Valentine ideas to have a great time without having to go into debt buying expensive gifts.

Yet they try to collect the full amount from consumers or will be «generous» as they «want to help you», and will offer a 50 % discount off of the old delinquent debt they bought for 5 % on the dollar.

Midland Funding is part of Encore Capital Group, one of the largest debt buying companies in the U.S. Through its subsidiaries, Encore Capital and other debt buying companies purchase credit card, medical and other debts, usually from the original creditors after many months, or even years, of unsuccessful collection attempts by the original lenders.

In recent years the debt buying industry has expanded dramatically, and attempts to collect «zombie debts,» — attempts to collect debts not owed, debts that were already paid or discharged, debts owed by someone else, or due to identity theft — have reached epidemic scale.

The debt buying industry is not going anywhere anytime soon.

The 77 million Americans pursued and often harassed by debt collection agencies won a moment of relief when the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ordered the nation's two largest debt buying companies to stop collecting on $ 128 million in debt and...

The Fair Debt Buying Practices Act was passed on July 1, 2013.

The debt buying industry continues to grow and often the debts they are collecting are erroneous and uncollectible by law.

Debt buying has emerged into a multi-billion dollar industry in the past several years.

Junk debt buying has become a billion dollar industry full of violations, fraud and deceit.

The debt buying industry is growing by leaps and bounds.

While we can't deny that Interac Debit's «Merry January» campaign sends an important message this holiday season — that no one should rack up debt buying things they can't afford — we can't help but note that it's a rather simplistic way of framing the whole credit - versus - debit discussion.

In my eyes it was well worth it, it not the college's fault if you get in debt buy and expensive car and feel as though you need more money.

Not exact matches

Although the name has changed, it's still the same industry once denoted as «leveraged buyouts» — that is, the business of buying companies with a thin slice of nonpublic equity and mountains of debt, in which fund managers grab richly generous (to themselves) fees.

May 1 - Boeing Co said on Tuesday it entered a definitive agreement to buy aerospace parts company KLX Inc for $ 4.25 billion, including debt.

The European Central Bank on December 3 dropped one of its main policy rates to negative 0.3 % from negative 0.2 % and said it would extend its bond - buying program, under which it creates euros to purchase debt, to at least March 2017.

M&A: Health insurer Cigna Corp. plans to buy Express Scripts Holding Co. in a cash - and - stock deal worth $ 67 billion (includes the assumption of $ 15 billion in debt).

That all changed on March 25 when it bought a piece of Ireland's Bord Gais Eirann and its 17 wind projects for $ 960 million, which includes $ 280 million in debt.

Credit card debt isn't used to buy appreciating assets.

The latest clinical trial outsourcing / drug development and manufacturing merger hit on Monday as scientific instrument giant Thermo Fisher announced it would buy drug ingredients maker Patheon for $ 5.2 billion ($ 7.2 billion is you count $ 2 billion in net debt).

This buying and reselling of debt is partly what got the banks into trouble during the recession, which is one reason regulators now force financial institutions to keep more capital on their balance sheets.

Many people have bought into this space because it's one of the only places to get decent yield, but she points out that a number of companies only offer corporate debt because of market demand.

When shopping habits start interfering with bigger life goals, such as saving to buy a home or paying off debt, it might be time to explore whether an addiction is involved.

• Nordic Capital agreed to buy Alloheim, a German nursing home operators, for about 1.1 billion euros ($ 1.3 billion) including debt, Reuters reports citing sources.

Like CDOs, CLOs buy up riskier debt, bundle those loans together, and then slice that debt up into bonds for investors with varying risk levels.

The converse applies in down turns, cut production to maintain price value and cut costs and improve efficiencies, Additionally use low cost debt to buy assets for future development with debt to be repaid in booms.

Instead, a good portion of Valeant's debt is held by collateralized loan obligations, or CLOs, essentially loan funds that buy and hold lower credit debt.

Carnival was originally a subsidiary of American International Travel Service (AITS), but in 1974, Arison bought Carnival for $ 1, along with $ 5 million in assumed AITS debt.

However, recently, the economic recovery seen in Portugal since the sovereign debt crisis has indeed begun affecting the way agencies such as Moody's and Standard & Poor's see the economy, indicating that in the near future more investors could be considering buying Portuguese bonds.

If the Fed were monetizing the debt, then it would rip up the Treasuries it buys, so that the government doesn't have to pay them off.

A related question I sometimes hear — which bears also on the relationship between monetary and fiscal policy, is this: By buying securities, are you «monetizing the debt» — printing money for the government to use — and will that inevitably lead to higher inflation?

On Monday, the yen slid towards 99 per dollar, its lowest in nearly four years, as markets prepared for the BOJ to start buying about 70 percent of debt issued by the government.

The interest rate on 10 - year bonds was 1.79 % at the end of 2014 — about half as much as the federal government had to offer to get investors to buy its debt a decade ago.

There were a few dissents, but a majority of the Monetary Policy Committee also opted to create # 60 billion (about $ 100 billion) to buy government bonds over the next six months and # 10 billion to purchase corporate debt over 18 months.

For example, many of those investors bought Valeant's debt only a year ago.

It's still a volatile business, so you want to buy stocks of companies that have modest debt loads and use their capital wisely.

If your friend came to you on New Year's Day and told you that over the next 12 months they were planning to lose half their body weight, earn a seven - figure income in a field in which they have no experience, and save enough to buy a private island even though they're currently $ 20,000 in credit card debt, you'd probably think they were being a tad unrealistic.

Consumer advocates would like to see the agency require every company involved in selling, buying, or collecting debts to ensure the integrity and accuracy of the information used in the process.

Bond investors like mutual funds and pension funds hope to buy securities with comparatively higher yields than other asset - backed debt that could also provide diversification benefits.

There will be no debt to buy.

DCT Industrial Trust — DCT will be bought by logistics rival Prologis in an all - stock deal valued at $ 8.4 billion, including the assumption of debt.

For the most part, Oregonians choose to go into debt to buy homes.

Nearly 20 percent of people who own cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin went into debt to buy it, or bought it on margin.

AT&T, which is in the process of buying HBO owner Time Warner (twx) for $ 109 billion including debt, started giving its regular unlimited customers free HBO in April.

France's AXA says it will spend $ 15.3 billion on buying New York - listed insurer XL Group and speed up its plans to spin off its American life insurance business — the IPO would give it $ 6 billion to help fund the XL purchase, with the rest coming in the form of cash and debt issuance.

While most of the world would simply buy a larger house, a nicer car and better wardrobe, I've been sinking this cash into several other more productive avenues, including more real estate investments, paying off debt and going on some relaxing vacations.

RXR Realty is close to landing a five - year loan to pay off $ 1 billion in debt that comes due in March at 5 Times Square, the headquarters for Ernst & Young that David Werner bought in 2014 for $ 1.5 billion.