Sentences with phrase «while high levels of debt»

While high levels of debt may result in increased stock returns for some companies, it can also lead to blowups during credit tightening periods or economic slow downs if interest payments can not be maintained.

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While the high level of existing debt means rate hikes will have a stronger impact in cooling demand than they did in previous years, it is still too soon to know just how much of an effect the bank's three rate hikes have had, Poloz said.

While the BoJ has argued that central bank asset purchases would not work in the absence of structural reforms, strategists said that high government debt levels will constrain fiscal expansion.

A drop in the euro provided support, helping the exporter - heavy DAX index outperfrom with a rise of 1.5 percent, while Italy's FTSE MIB rose 1.2 percent to its highest level since October 2009, as government debt rose on dimming prospects of a snap election.

Morneau said many families looking to buy homes have found themselves priced out of the market, while others have had to pile up high levels of debt.

We estimate that balancing the budget in ten years would require savings of between $ 7 trillion and $ 10 trillion, while just stabilizing the debt at its already high level would require $ 5.4 trillion to $ 8 trillion.

While the total level of debt was $ 479 billion higher than a year earlier, it remains 8.2 percent below the peak of $ 12.68 trillion reached in the third quarter of 2008.

Stocks with a history of consistently growing their dividends have historically tended to perform well and exhibit less volatility in a rising rate environment, while high yielding dividends, often considered «bond - like proxies,» have tended to be more vulnerable (due to their high debt levels) and have historically followed bond performance when rates rise.

While only Italy and Japan here are considered major economies on a global scale, the high debt levels of countries like Greece or Portugal are also important to monitor.

While it has a debt - to - GDP ratio of 80 %, one of the highest debt levels in the region, the financial firm says that's much lower than Greece.

While the overall Canadian housing market is sound, house prices have risen significantly in some markets, notably Toronto and Vancouver, and some borrowers are taking on high levels of debt.

To provide reasonable returns, commensurate with low risk while providing a high level of liquidity, through a portfolio of money market and debt securities.

While a lot of people hold out hope for a promotion or a lottery win to save them from their high debt level, there is an easier — and more realistic — way to pay off credit cards when their balance has gotten out of hand.

This subset of borrowers will continue to struggle, Becker says, because they'll be relegated to lower - earning jobs while saddled with the same level of debt as their more upwardly - mobile peers «The non-payment rates for people who don't finish school is really high,» he says.

While there might be higher returns associated with higher levels of debt, the increased risk of a permanent loss of capital when dealing with companies that carry excessive debt may exceed the benefit of those returns.

Here was a company experiencing declining same store sales, while servicing high levels of debt.