Sentences with phrase «absorb loss first»

Shareholders and bondlholders should absorb loss first and second (DM: good answer).

The non-regulated firms will absorb losses first if a project sours, protecting banks from deeper losses, he said.

Not exact matches

Aquantive didn't bring in as much online ad revenue as Microsoft envisioned, prompting the software maker to absorb a $ 6.2 billion charge last year that resulted in its first quarterly loss in its 26 - year history as a public company.

In the first study of its kind, scientists have calculated the amount of carbon absorbed by the world's tropical forests and the amounts of greenhouse gas emissions created by loss of trees, as a result of human activity.

Athletes first absorb and then release kinetic energy in each ground contact phase, supplementing it only to make up for the losses of energy to friction and for any inefficiency in the system.

The bonds at the bottom of the pile got the highest interest rate, but if homeowners defaulted, they would absorb the first losses.

-- The inverse is also true — that is, all loan default losses are first absorbed by the residual equity tranche, then the mezzanine, the BBB notes, and ultimately by the AAA notes (ideally in v rare circumstances).

The less vulnerable of these securities were viewed as having low risk either because they were insured with new financial instruments or because other securities would first absorb any losses on the underlying mortgages (DiMartino and Duca 2007).

It does seem at first glance that a warm troposphere would warm the stratosphere, but the explanation that more of the earth - sourced infrared radiation is absorbed lower in the the troposphere by higher levels of CO2 makes sense if one thinks about the thermodynamic losses involved in the CO2 re-radiation processes; some of the earth - sourced infrared is transformed into kinetic energy and only a fraction is reradiated as more infrared radiation (if I'm understanding correctly).

The first, the Visible Light Window, on the left side of the graphic, allows visible and near - visible light from the Sun to pass through with small losses, and the second, the Longwave Window, on the right, allows the central portion of the longwave radiation band from the Earth to pass through with small losses, while absorbing and re-emitting the left and right portions.

The repayment of principal — including the amount recovered from loan workouts — is distributed first to the super-senior tranches until they have been paid off at par, while losses due to default are first absorbed by the subordinated tranches.