The recent stress tests showed Spanish banks had a total of $ 12 billion in mandatory
convertible bonds outstanding, much of them sold to retail clients at branches throughout the country.
But after that transaction, there are just as
many bonds outstanding, and just as many shares of stock outstanding than there were previously.
Fortunately, with so
many bonds outstanding, listing daily prices for all of them is neither necessary nor useful.
In contrast, Commonwealth Government bonds fell to $ 52 billion due to a large maturity while state
government bonds outstanding declined slightly.
The company's restructuring needs meant hammering out a deal with lenders in the UK and South Africa, who were owed cash in a variety of currencies (the company also had
listed bonds outstanding on the Johannesburg and Irish stock exchanges).
Liquidity: Due to the large number of U.S. municipal bond issuers and the sheer number of
municipal bonds outstanding the depth of liquidity for U.S. municipal bonds has been a factor impacting the market for decades.
Gergely Szalka of MSCI's Valuation Research Group and I studied all U.S. convertible
bonds outstanding over the two - year period ending December 31, 2016 for which the MSCI database had a rating from Standard & Poor's ¹ and a continuous price history.
Non-government bonds presently account for around 60 per cent of
domestic bond outstandings, compared with only 14 per cent a decade ago.
The amount of
panda bonds outstanding rose to 130 billion renminbi ($ 18.8 billion) at the end of last year, from RMB 15 billion at the end of 2015, says a report by Standard Chartered Bank.
The central bank's current holdings are equal to around a quarter of the total agency
mortgage bonds outstanding, according to data from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.
In one sense, we are in a brave new world for both life insurance companies and the corporate bond market because the life insurance industry alone is not big enough to purchase all of the
corporate bonds outstanding.
Prior to the great recession approximately half of the
municipal bonds outstanding were insured and during that time insured bonds were more in demand than un-insured bonds.
In terms of total face value
of bonds outstanding, the corporate bond market is bigger than each of the markets for municipal bonds, U.S. treasury securities, and government agencies securities.
If the same company has
the bond outstanding and only $ 1 million in equity, then the debt - to - equity ratio is 10 (10/1 = 10).
Interpreting the Ratio Let's say a company has long - term debt of $ 10 million in the form of
a bond outstanding and equity of $ 10 million.
Alternatively, if the company has the $ 10 million
bond outstanding and $ 20 million in equity, giving a debt - to - equity ratio of 0.5, investors can feel a little bit more comfortable.
Of the $ 50 billion increase in the past couple of years in total non-government
bond outstandings (offshore plus local issuance), almost two - thirds has been within the local market (Graph 7).
With $ 74 billion of non-government
bonds outstanding, this sector is now larger than the market for Commonwealth Government securities (Graph 31).
The Commonwealth Government's
bond outstandings were little changed at $ 52 billion, while the state governments» bond outstandings rose slightly to $ 56 billion (Graph 49).
In contrast, Commonwealth Government
bonds outstanding were little changed at $ 52 billion, while state government bonds fell $ 1 billion to $ 50 billion.
1MDB has a $ 3 billion
bond outstanding that does not mature until 2023 but the fund has a strong incentive to pay this back sooner rather than later — even if it means paying bondholders a premium.
It is very rare for companies to only have one
bond outstanding — usually they have a great deal of bonds, with difference coupons, maturities, and covenants.
For bonds, the approach is the same: Individual weights are determined by the principal amount of
the bond outstanding multiplied by the bond's price.
Still, in the U.S., nearly 10 % of
all bonds outstanding are held directly by households.
But with more than 1.5 million individual bonds in the municipal market alone, 167 times the number of stocks listed on the major exchanges, it wouldn't be possible for newspapers to list
every bond outstanding in the combined debt markets.
If the same company has
the bond outstanding and only $ 1 million in equity, then the debt - to - equity ratio is 10 (10/1 = 10).
Interpreting the Ratio Let's say a company has long - term debt of $ 10 million in the form of
a bond outstanding and equity of $ 10 million.
Alternatively, if the company has the $ 10 million
bond outstanding and $ 20 million in equity, giving a debt - to - equity ratio of 0.5, investors can feel a little bit more comfortable.
If you want to count in the shenanigans that occur as a result of shorting (naked or legal), those are a series of side bets that do not change the total number of shares /
bonds outstanding.