Sentences with phrase «at debt service»

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But he points to a report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer released earlier this year showing that, since 2009, the debt service ratio — a measure of income spent to pay debt — has remained steady at around 14 per cent, not much higher than the long - term average.

while mortgage debt servicing continues its fall since 1990, currently standing at 3.5 %.

Holding company liquidity is the total funds available at the holding company level to fund general corporate purposes, primarily the payment of shareholder dividends and debt service.

As Bloomberg pointed out last month, Spotify's recent deal to raise $ 1 billion in convertible debt valued the company at roughly $ 8 billion and put additional pressure on the streaming service to go public.

Forget about household spending: with debt at record levels, consumer spending on new goods and services will be restrained.

Kantrowitz would like to see Congress require debt relief services to «clearly and conspicuously disclose in their advertising and on their websites» that borrowers can consolidate their loans on their own for free at StudentLoans.gov.»

At that point, large private equity buyers begin to enter the picture, because they can purchase the company with borrowed money and use the company's own cash flow to service the debt.

The first is to purchase and install the needed equipment at a point during the year where additional volume warrants the expenditure, thereby assuring sufficient cash flow to handle the additional debt service or the outright purchase of the equipment.

A total of $ 180 billion of debt is at default risk, according to Standards & Poor's rating services.

Considering its strategic orientation of growing through acquisition, ACT has some latitude at the rating for periodically elevated leverage, but we believe that negative rating pressure would emerge if a transaction caused fully adjusted debt to EBITDA to exceed 3.5 x with risky prospects for a return to below 3.0 x. Moreover, the rating would be under pressure if increased competition caused weaker earnings, particularly from merchandise and services, keeping debt to EBITDA above 3x.

Example: I recently met a B2B healthcare payments company that seeks to lower doctors offices» bad debts expense from 40 to 5 percent by helping them collect funds upfront at the time services are delivered, instead of 30 days later with an invoice in the mail.

The debt - service ratio in both Russia and Turkey were also showing signs of risk, at 1.8 per cent and 6.1 per cent, respectively.

They also fear that at such elevated levels, many Canadian households would be unable to withstand a financial shock such as a loss of income, or a sudden spike in interest rates that raised debt services charges.

As well, Canada's debt - service ratio, which measures interest payments and amortizations relative to income, is at 2.9 per cent.

Critics contend that a lack of direction could plague small governments who are trying to beat back debt obligations while at the same time providing services to their populations.

Moody's Investor Service downgraded Tesla's debt into junk territory back in March, warning at the time that Tesla didn't have cash to cover $ 3.7 billion for normal operations, capital expenses and debt that come due early next year.

At that price, if 1995 earnings hold steady, a new owner can cover debt service, earn out an adequate return on capital, and still hire a manager.

«It's really a fee for using someone else's money,» explains Todd Christensen, director of education at Debt Reduction Services, a nonprofit debt management and credit counseling organization in Boise, IdDebt Reduction Services, a nonprofit debt management and credit counseling organization in Boise, Iddebt management and credit counseling organization in Boise, Idaho.

Meanwhile, the total household debt service ratio, measured as total obligated payments of principal and interest as a proportion of household disposable income for both mortgage and non-mortgage debt, remained flat at 13.8 per cent in the fourth quarter.

These risks and uncertainties include competition and other economic conditions including fragmentation of the media landscape and competition from other media alternatives; changes in advertising demand, circulation levels and audience shares; the Company's ability to develop and grow its online businesses; the Company's reliance on revenue from printing and distributing third - party publications; changes in newsprint prices; macroeconomic trends and conditions; the Company's ability to adapt to technological changes; the Company's ability to realize benefits or synergies from acquisitions or divestitures or to operate its businesses effectively following acquisitions or divestitures; the Company's success in implementing expense mitigation efforts; the Company's reliance on third - party vendors for various services; adverse results from litigation, governmental investigations or tax - related proceedings or audits; the Company's ability to attract and retain employees; the Company's ability to satisfy pension and other postretirement employee benefit obligations; changes in accounting standards; the effect of labor strikes, lockouts and labor negotiations; regulatory and judicial rulings; the Company's indebtedness and ability to comply with debt covenants applicable to its debt facilities; the Company's ability to satisfy future capital and liquidity requirements; the Company's ability to access the credit and capital markets at the times and in the amounts needed and on acceptable terms; and other events beyond the Company's control that may result in unexpected adverse operating results.

But looking at the numbers, there was no possible way Greece could service that debt as a base case scenario and, therefore, something had to give.»

This would sharply enhance growth rates during the expansion phase, much like margin borrowing enhances returns when market prices are rising faster than the debt servicing costs, but at the expense of sub-par performance once conditions reverse.

Jason joined NEP in 2006 after working at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) in their global industrial & services group where he participated in the origination and day - to - day execution of various investment banking transactions, including acquisitions and divestitures, public equity and debt financings, and private placements.

Now let's look at the percentage of profits that may need to go to servicing debt and how much debt service could equal in terms of jobs.

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.

In that case any credit - fueled increase in investment would likely have resulted in a net improvement in China's debt servicing capacity, in which case, with government debt at well below 25 % of GDP, rising debt would not be a concern.

As the gap widens, it creates rising uncertainty about how excess debt servicing costs will ultimately be allocated, and at the point at which this uncertainty is high enough to alter materially the behavior of economic agents, and so lower the net asset value of the economic entity, the borrowing country has «excessive» debt.

To some extent, these concerns are allayed by the existence of natural hedges, such as foreign currency export income, although rising US dollar - denominated debt servicing costs at a time of falling US dollar - denominated commodity revenues would obviously be problematic.

Depending upon the nature of the loan, periodic payments will be either daily or weekly, allowing the small business owner to spread the burden of debt service throughout the month, rather than requiring one larger payment at the end of the month.

But even if this is all there were to debt — and in fact in my classes at both Peking University and, previously, at Columbia University I propose to my students that one way to think of the lability side of the balance sheet is precisely as a series of formulae that distribute the operating earnings of a company (or the total production of goods and services of a country)-- this would still make it singularly important in understanding the functioning of and prospects for an economy.

When this happens and as debt levels rise relative to debt servicing capacity, at some point the major stakeholders — including businesses, creditors, household savers, workers and so on — became uncertain enough about how this gap will be allocated that they take steps to protect themselves from this uncertainty.

In addition, the mortgage market looks set for a particularly heavy year of renewals in an environment where debt - servicing costs are already rising at the fastest pace in a decade.

At some point those debts have to be paid, which means less money for good and services.

I target a minimum of 1.5 % rents which at the low end keeps debt servicing right around 33 % where I want it.

When the G - 7 deputies came to Moscow in late November 1991, just a few days after Gaidar had come to power as head of Yeltsin's economic team, the main focus of the G - 7 message was the urgency that the Soviet Union should continue to service the external debts at any cost.

Of course debt growing faster than debt - servicing capacity is unsustainable, so we will set as our first financial sector target the point at which the two grow in line with each other.

It occurred rather because in 2015 there was a series of debt transactions (mainly provincial bond swaps aimed at reducing debt - servicing costs and extending maturities) that extinguished debt that had been included in the TSF category and replaced it with debt not included in TSF.

However, it's only risky on assets you have no control over or when you over leverage without looking at the cash flow closely after debt service.

The government forgives up to $ 17,500 of your federal student debt after you work at a low - income school or education service agency for five consecutive years.

The ongoing growth in debt has seen a steady increase in interest payments as a proportion of disposable income, and at the end of 2003 this measure of the debt - servicing burden exceeded its previous peak in the late 1980s (Graph 31).

Under the B.C. Liberals, ferry ridership has fallen, fares have climbed, debt at the corporation has ballooned, the government has failed to curb exorbitant executive bonuses, and now people up and down the coast are facing devastating service cuts, said Trevena.

According to Goolam Ballim, group economist at Johannesburg - based Standard Bank, improvements in public finances over the past decade mean less revenues now go into debt servicing and capital repayment, opening the way for more national investment in infrastructure.

At some point, increases in the debt - servicing ratio should eventually begin to constrain households» ability to increase their indebtedness.

TGR: Going back to the triple - witching hour at year - end, if the debt ceiling is raised again, when do we start to see government layoffs and limitations on services?

At the time the US was a net creditor worldwide, so this move simultaneously saved the US Dollar, and upped the rate of US Dollars that other nations had to acquire to service their US Dollar denominated debt.

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This puts central banks in a position where they will have attempt to control interest rates not by discounting lending, but by buying debt from the government directly, so that markets don't price the new issuance at a level that would destroy the nation's ability to service a debt load that is growing larger all the time.

Jason Falls at Social Media Explorer examined the case study of CareOne Debt Relief Services, which launched an online community in 2006 on which people could register to ask questions about debt relief, consolidation, and budgetDebt Relief Services, which launched an online community in 2006 on which people could register to ask questions about debt relief, consolidation, and budgetdebt relief, consolidation, and budgeting.

Despite a big decline at Adient (ADNT), the fund was boosted by General Dynamic's (GD) ~ $ 9.6 b (including debt) takeover of government IT services provider CSRA (CSRA).

Debt servicing ratios of both the corporate and unincorporated sectors have been lower for the past couple of years than at any time in the preceding decade (Graph 6).