Sentences with phrase «us foreign debt»

The downside: high foreign debt, «excessive» currency volatility and meagre foreign - exchange reserves.

It said China's foreign exchange reserves fell $ 512.66 billion in 2015 — the biggest annual drop on record — to $ 3.33 trillion, while China had short - term foreign debt of $ 1.02 trillion at the end of September.

Now, emerging markets have flexible - exchange rates, much less foreign debt, and substantially larger reserves of foreign currency.

Help decelerate America's foreign debt and improve our negative balance of payments.

Michael you dedicated almost three chapters in your book «Killing the Host» to how the IMF economists actually knew that Greece will not be able to pay back its foreign debt, but yet it went ahead and made these huge loans to Greece.

This means that countries that owe foreign debt, that's almost all denominated in dollars, especially to the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank, they're going to have to pay much more money in higher - priced dollars for their own currency.

One obvious reason is that if a country is at war, especially a civil war that's bombing its export sector as Ukraine is doing, how can it obtain the foreign exchange to pay its foreign debt?

Toward debtor countries American diplomats work through the World Bank and IMF to demand that debtors raise their interest rates and impose taxes and austerity programs to keep their wages low, sell off their public domain to pay their foreign debts, and deregulate their economy so as to enable foreign investors to privatize local electricity, telephone services and other infrastructure formerly provided at subsidized rates to help these economies grow.

The 2013 survey also suggests that hedging ratios for foreign equity assets were lower than those of foreign debt assets, which is also consistent with the results of the 2013 National Australia Bank Superannuation FX Survey (NAB Survey; NAB 2013).

In contrast to banks and other financial corporations, the non-financial sector's foreign currency liabilities have risen since 2009, consistent with an increase in borrowings in foreign debt markets by larger corporations (particularly in the mining sector).

The fund focuses on US corporate bonds, convertible securities, foreign debt instruments (including those in emerging markets) and US government securities

The money is dissipated to subsidize capital flight or to pay Russia's mounting foreign debt.

That is why German reparations and Inter-Ally debts were written down after World War I. Greece's foreign debt is what is known as an «odious debt,» taken on by fraud to finance capital flight by Greece's One Percent.

«Don't Bet On the Bank: Monetary Policy and Canada's Growing Foreign Debt,» C.D. Howe Institute Commentary 47, by William B.P. Robson (May).

The rise in payments on debt is consistent with the growth in the stock of Australian foreign debt, while the increase in payments on equity coincides with a period of strong growth in Australian corporate profitability.

The rise in payments on foreign debt in the December quarter was partly offset by a decline in dividend payments on foreign holdings of Australian equity.

Net foreign debt rose to 41 per cent of GDP, on account of both increased foreign borrowings and valuation effects flowing from the depreciation in the A$ in the quarter.

Chinese corporations have taken on $ 1.5 trillion in foreign debt in the past year or so, where previously they had none.

US Treasuries and US foreign debt have long been supported by the dollar - printing machine, and this support may be ending, according to TeleTradeBel analyst Mikhail Grachev.

Net foreign debt liabilities fell by $ 6 billion in the June quarter — mainly a result of the appreciation of the exchange rate over the quarter — reducing the ratio of net foreign debt to GDP to 38.3 per cent.

The Colombian and Chilean pesos were floated in September after periods of speculative attack (although the Colombian peso has recovered a little since), the Brazilian real fell on continuing budget imbalances and US dollar debt servicing and Ecuador's sucre has been under pressure following that country's default on some foreign debt and persistent domestic stagflation.

Despite its technical staff ruling in 2010 - 11 that Greece's foreign debts could not be paid and hence needed to be written off, its heads — first Dominique Strauss - Kahn and then Lagarde — acted in blatant conflict of interest to support the French bankers demands for payment in full, and U.S. demands by President Obama and Wall Street lobbyist Tim Geithner to insist there be no writedown at all.

Taken together, Russia may use these three principles to negotiate a solution to its foreign debts from the Soviet and Yeltsin eras.

The OPEC member's socialist leader wants to restructure the ailing country's foreign debt, putting an alleged drug trafficker in charge of working out how.

A third ground for annulling Russia's foreign debt is the doctrine of odious debts.

In the 1980s, when the sharp rises in foreign debt and its servicing costs were occurring, the Australian economic debate was, not surprisingly, pre-occupied with these issues.

The other aspect of foreign debt that has received a lot of attention in the light of recent Asian developments is the extent of unhedged foreign currency borrowing.

Looking at a graph of the ratio of foreign debt to GDP (Graph 2) shows that it nearly tripled between 1982 and 1986 (from 12 per cent to 33 per cent).

While Australia is certainly in the top quartile of countries ranked by the net foreign debt to GDP ratio, it is not the highest — New Zealand, Sweden and Canada are higher.

I think it is true to say that there has not been a lot of unhedged foreign currency borrowing occurring among Australian corporates since the days of the «Swiss franc loans» of the mid-eighties, but I will postpone discussion of that topic until I deal with foreign debt in the second half of this talk.

The foreign debt situation is not as threatening now as the most pessimistic people in the mid-eighties feared.

The reason the reaction was so large was that doubts began to emerge about whether the economic situation was sustainable, particularly in view of the implications for foreign debt.

At the time, there were no official statistics comparing foreign debt levels in developed countries, and in their absence there was a tendency for people to assume the worst — that is, to assume that Australia was the highest on the list.

Foreign debt and corporate bonds are a useful diversifier, according to Lars Kroijer, but I wonder if he has backed off from this position in the latest edition of his book — does anyone know if that is so?

Australia's net foreign debt rose slightly in the March quarter, but remained around 48 1/2 per cent of GDP.

Net foreign liabilities rose in the March quarter, with a $ 6.9 billion increase taking the stock of net foreign liabilities to $ 323.0 billion (59.9 per cent of GDP); net foreign debt now stands at $ 224.5 billion (41.6 per cent of GDP).

Data as at March 2017; 2002 rating (long - term foreign debt) as at the beginning of 2002.

The decline in world interest rates over the past few years has seen the servicing burden of foreign debt fall to around the levels of the early 1980s.

The fund is a multi-sector income fund that invests primarily in U.S. and foreign debt securities.

While falling world interest rates have reduced the servicing cost of foreign debt over the past two years, this has been offset by rising dividend payments on foreign holdings of Australian equity, reflecting the strong profit growth of Australian companies throughout this period.

Growth has been fueled by the growth of household and foreign debt rather than by business investment, and we have become dangerously reliant on the resource sector.

Capital Markets Corporate Debt As Russian companies strive to cope with higher borrowing costs and a shortage of dollars and euros to repay foreign debt, emerging markets bonds are coming under increasing scrutiny by investors.

Financial Times an Iceland and Latvia pay the foreign debts run up by a fairly narrow layer of their population?

an Iceland and Latvia pay the foreign debts run up by a fairly narrow layer of their population?

Plus, talk about Haiti's foreign debt, gays in the military, immigration, and recommendations from Planned Parenthood.

The company is one of the public services that were swiftly privatized in recent years, supposedly to help pay the foreign debt (though the debt is now larger than ever).

The challenge clearly worries the region's Catholic bishops, who cite the growth of conservative Protestantism among their top concerns, along with the foreign debt and guerrilla and military violence.

As author Penny Lernoux has noted: «When the Alliance for Progress was finally buried at the end of the 1960s, about the only thing that the Latin American countries had to show for it was an enormous foreign debt: 19.3 billion dollars compared to 8.8 billion in 1961 when the program was launched» (Cry of the People [Doubleday], p. 211).

The days and weeks of commemoration organized at the secular level by bodies such as the United Nations Organization and its related agencies can help orient the eucharistic communities also to issues such as children's rights, women's emancipation, the aged, foreign debt, peace, environment, food, employment, AIDS, drugs, crime, cancer... etc..

An area that needs radical rethinking is the foreign debt of the poor countries to the former colonial powers.