Our town has over $ 100 million in
bonded debt which it is struggling to reduce and which it has been paying for by reducing the Town's Reserve Fund and attempting to sell Town assets.
Not exact matches
The European Central Bank on December 3 dropped one of its main policy rates to negative 0.3 % from negative 0.2 % and said it would extend its
bond - buying program, under
which it creates euros to purchase
debt, to at least March 2017.
Although no state has defaulted on general obligation
bonds in over 80 years, the 19 th century witnessed numerous instances in
which states - and the Florida territory - defaulted on their
debts or even repudiated them outright.
In March 2018, SES secured an eight - year EUR 500 million Euro
Bond at a low annual coupon of 1.625 %
which allows SES to refinance an upcoming
debt maturity at more favourable terms.
The average BB rated
bond,
which is what Dell's current
debt is rated, is trading at a yield of 5.8 %.
Berkeley economist Barry Eichengreen recently told Spiegel Online that Europe will find no way around rescheduling Greek
debt,
which will hurt the balance sheet of banks that own Greek
bonds.
The yield on Greece's three - year
bond,
which has surged from 4 % to 13.5 % since October, is now reflecting serious expectations that the country may end up outside of the Eurozone and unable to repay its euro - denominated
debts.
For ratings issued on a program, series or category / class of
debt, this announcement provides relevant regulatory disclosures in relation to each rating of a subsequently issued
bond or note of the same series or category / class of
debt or pursuant to a program for
which the ratings are derived exclusively from existing ratings in accordance with Moody's rating practices.
Even a
debt - ceiling breach of a week or two during
which the U.S. Treasury keeps making principal and interest payments to
bond holders might hurt the U.S.'s rating.
Back in 2010 it paid $ 550 million to settle charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it mislead investors into buying a so - called synthetic collateralized
debt obligation named Abacus,
which was made up of a bundle of financial instruments tied to subprime mortgage
bonds, many of
which plummeted in value shortly after the deal was sold.
Seadrill said the approved plan,
which extends maturities of $ 5.7 billion in bank
debts, converts $ 2.3 billion of unsecured
bonds to equity and injects $ 1 billion in new
debt and equity, would enable the company to take advantage of a market recovery.
On Monday, the state planner issued new rules for companies
which are planning to issue
bonds to put more pressure on
debt - laden local governments to get their finances in order.
Over the past several months,
debt traders have been growing increasingly wary of this type of monetary tightening by global central banks,
which have been the biggest buyers of
bonds for years.
At the time of the show's premiere, however, Trump's Atlantic City casino holdings were burdened by $ 2 billion in
bond debt that they struggled to repay, according to The New York Times,
which goes unmentioned in the first episode of «The Apprentice.»
The trio of ETFs, when they launch, will round out Franklin's
bond ETF lineup,
which already includes a variety of actively managed fixed - income funds covering short - duration U.S. government
debt, municipal
bonds and the investment - grade corporate
debt.
As that
debt pile grows, interest rates,
which rise when
bonds sell off, could continue to go higher.
The hedge fund would break even on its
debt investment if the Berkshire bid prevails because gains in some parts of its
debt holdings,
which would be paid out in full, would offset losses in the unsecured
bonds it holds, where it would take a deep haircut, the people said.
Puerto Rico's power authority,
which supplies electricity to the island's 3.6 million people, made a $ 415 million
debt payment that was due Wednesday after reaching a deal with its
bond insurers to borrow more money.
But
bond investors have continued to flock to the
debt of the United States,
which as the world's largest economy has retained the perception of a financial safe haven.
The
debts that were forgiven were personal
debts, agrarian
debts, and the idea was to liberate the
bond - servants so that they could be available to perform the corvée labor,
which was the main kind of taxation in the Bronze Age, and serve in the army.
A key factor that could turn the tide for sovereign
debt yields is the Bank of Japan,
which meets Tuesday and Wednesday, and may decide to stop buying longer - duration
bonds, according to reports.
Second, the tax bill may do away with 2 specific types of municipal
bond issues: tax - exempt advance refundings,
which are tax - exempt
bonds issued to refinance existing municipal
debt, and private activity
bonds,
which are issued by non-government borrowers such as hospitals, airports, and private universities.
Bonds may also be subject to call risk,
which is the risk that the issuer will redeem the
debt at its option, fully or partially, before the scheduled maturity date.
Against this backdrop, some investors are taking a look at convertible
bonds,
which are
debt instruments issued by a company that can be converted into stock of the same company.
Represents the corporate and government - related sectors of Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate
Bond Index (
which provides a broad - based measure of the global investment - grade, fixed - rate
debt markets) and is considered representative of global investment - grade
debt.
The devastating LDC
debt crisis of the 1980s,
which began in August 1982 when the Mexican government announced that it was unable to service its obligations to foreign banks, ended only in 1990, when these loans were exchanged for a nominal amount of Brady
bonds equal to only 65 % of the original notional amount of outstanding loans.
An array of measures is selected from the overall credit supply (or what is the same thing,
debt securities) to represent «money,»
which then is correlated with changes in goods and service prices, but not with prices for capital assets —
bonds, stocks and real estate.
On Thursday, the utility filed a petition before the island's energy regulator for a new securitization charge,
which would pay for the restructured
debt following a planned
bond exchange.
Moody's Investors Service,
which downgraded Tesla's credit rating further into junk in March, still expects Tesla will need to raise about $ 2 billion selling equity, convertible
bonds or
debt, to offset the cash it burns this year and securities maturing through early 2019.
Sure, you can devalue those claims through inflation, but only if the
debt is in the form of long - maturity
bonds (
which is why the recent discussion of issuing 50 - 100 year Treasury
bonds seems understandable but also a bit nefarious).
Under the federal law Regulation D in the Securities Act of 1933, certain companies are exempt from registering the sale of securities,
which are typically forms of stocks or
bonds, and in the case of PeerStreet, real estate
debt.
Unlike the other four ESG
bond ETFs,
which track U.S.
debt, GRNB's portfolio holds
bonds from about 20 countries.
Lower taxes would likely lead to larger deficits,
which could require the Treasury to issue more
debt, increasing the supply of government
bonds on the market.
The first problem concerns a proposed
debt buyback scheme, in
which the Greek government would purchase and retire
bonds at a discount.
AXL also recently issued $ 200MM its 2019
bonds,
which gives some indication that the company can get
bond investors to refinance existing
debt as needed.
There, she was part of the team that represented Champion REIT's manager for the first convertible
bonds issue by a Hong Kong - listed REIT,
which won the «
Debt Market Deal of the Year» award at the 2007 ALB Hong Kong Law Awards.
Government of Canada marketable
debt,
which includes treasury bills and marketable
bonds, is distributed through competitive auctions to Government Securities Distributors, a group of banks and investment dealers in the Canadian market.
In December, PK repaid $ 55 million in maturing high - yield
bonds,
which carried a 7.5 % coupon, leaving the company with a forward
debt maturity schedule that is well - balanced and very manageable with no major maturities until 2021.
i.e. I know I can stick with it in the depths of a crash (not easily, but I can do it)
which would give me confidence that I could dispense with the
bond element of a portfolio in favour of paying off
debt, as you suggest, in your shoes.
S&P ratings agency issued a statement reaffirming US Treasury
bond AAA credit rating, but they issued a negative outlook
which means there's a 1 in 3 chance of lowering the
debt rating in the next 2 years.
The eventual downgrade to junk, aka non-investment grade, will make IL
debt ineligible for investment for some of their major institutional investors (one of
which has already called for a boycott of Illinois
debt)
which are restricted by mandate to purchase only investment grade muni
bonds.
We have government
debt, corporate
debt, and a much larger Fed balance sheet (
which, some people argue, drove
bond buying by the public), but those are offset by a significant deleveraging in household and financial sector
debt.
At present, investors have no reasonable incentive at all to «lock in» the prospective returns implied by current prices of stocks or long - term
bonds (though we suspect that 10 - year Treasuries may benefit over a short horizon due to continued economic risks and still - unresolved
debt concerns in Europe,
which has already entered an economic downturn).
It's also interesting to examine the changing significance and dynamics of the European
bond market in general,
which has almost doubled in size since 2005 to more than $ 10 trillion today, including government, investment - grade corporate
debt and high yield.
The European Central Bank, in addition to buying member country sovereign - issued
debt is now buying corporate
bonds, some of
which are non-investment grade.
Still, we've observed diminishing returns from the Fed's interventions, there is no political tolerance for the Fed to intervene in securities involving any credit risk that would be borne by U.S. citizens (purchasing European sovereign
debt, for example), and the yield on the 10 - year Treasury
bond is already down to 1.7 %,
which is far below where it stood when prior interventions were initiated.
Gelpern acknowledges that Ukrainian refusal to pay the
bonds by invoking the odious
debt principle «is fraught with legal, political and market risks, all of
which would play into Russia's hands.»
The Fed's go - to move is tweaking its target for the federal funds rate,
which is what banks charge one another for loans and the benchmark for our rates on mortgages, credit cards and other
debts, as well as savings accounts, CDs and Treasury
bonds.
It loads down economies with
debt — and when
debt service exceeds the surplus out of
which to pay it, the central bank tries to «inflate its way out of
debt» by creating enough new credit («money») to make real estate, stocks and
bonds worth more — enough for debtors to borrow the interest due.
The offering,
which was sold as a private placement, was the largest dollar - denominated corporate
bond sale since Roche Holding issued $ 16.5 billion of
debt in February 2009.