While debt servicing costs are still low, overall corporate debt is now close to its post-war peak.
Not exact matches
While lower global interest rates have helped contain
debt -
servicing costs, the past year or so has seen a significant increase in net dividend payments.
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.
While the official policy of the Big Banks and CMHC is that borrowers should have mortgage
debt service costs no greater than a third of their income, or restrict home loan borrowing to less than four times their annual take, comments like these make a lie of it.
It also does not take into account the growing balances in a
debt settlement program from additional interest and fees that build
while the consumer attempts to pay advance fees and save money to settle or the
cost of the
debt settlement
service provided.