Sentences with phrase «credit markets raises»

That said the coordinated slowdown in global manufacturing, decline in earnings and deterioration in credit markets raises the risk of a more severe downturn.

Not exact matches

And so of course no one is sure how the market will react when the Fed raises rates, or what happens if there is another event that causes credit markets to seize up.

Small businessmen and private individuals, who never understood that the Chrysler bail - out would squeeze $ 1.2 billion out of the credit market, making it difficult and more costly for them to raise business capital or finance a mortgage on a new house, all of which would have created new jobs

The Company uses the proceeds raised from the issuance of units to invest in SMEs through local market sub-advisors in a diversified portfolio of financial assets, including direct loans, convertible debt instruments, trade finance, structured credit and preferred and common equity investments.

Our funds may be affected by reduced opportunities to exit and realize value from their investments, by lower than expected returns on investments made prior to the deterioration of the credit markets and by the fact that we may not be able to find suitable investments for the funds to effectively deploy capital, all of which could adversely affect the timing of new funds and our ability to raise new

good thing markets only go up nowadays cuz the Chinese are mortgaging their homes and using credit cards to raise trading capital.

Credit — that is, debt leveraging — that is supposed to raise stock market prices to enable pension funds to meet their scheduled payments.

During the recession of 2008 and 2009, card issuers substantially curtailed their marketing and raised their credit standards, approving a much smaller percentage of non-prime consumers.

Its export credit market can now reopen, raising much - needed cash.

This switch from raising funds in equity markets to bond markets would, other things equal, also tend to raise concerns about credit quality, as corporate leverage would tend to rise.

«If confirmed, this will be the first time in the past half year that the central government announces supportive measures — not just the local governments — raising some people's hope that there may be more central government support if the housing market does not recover,» Du Jinsong, a property analyst for Credit Suisse in Hong Kong, wrote in a note.

In these figures, «other lenders» include credit unions, life or general insurance companies, and superannuation funds but, where loan funds are raised directly in the secondary mortgage market through securitisation, only those which are associated with State Government housing schemes are included.

«For higher - education institutions, such as Wellesley, the munibond market can be a practical and cost - effective way to raise capital,» says Eric Wild, Managing Director and Head of Morgan Stanley's Higher Education Finance Group, adding: «Investors understand and trust such institutions, which also tend to carry higher credit ratings.»

Soon the Fed will be forced to continue to raise interest rates in an attempt to save the dollar and stop inflation from exploding; The first causality will be to exacerbate the crash of the Real Estate market; then comes the imploding of the stock and bond markets, followed closely by the credit markets as the take - over and privatizing craze comes to an abrupt end.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Although not strictly true, several Australian companies — recently Cardno and Treasury Wine — have raised debt in the US private placement market without a credit rating, not having a rating severely limits any company's fund - raising options.

For example, financial innovations are responsible for home mortgages and auto loans, which empower lower and middle class consumers; credit to entrepreneurs who have built successful enterprises; and credit to emerging markets, which has helped raise millions of people out of dire poverty.

We survived as other insurance companies went under or exited the business, but as more companies failed, the credit quality bar kept getting raised higher, until we were marginal to the market.

He'll do a great job helping people narrow down their choices among the various rewards cards, but his question raised another issue for me, that is: who should be in the market for a rewards credit card?

However, credit - market turmoil and spreading problems in the subprime mortgage business have raised concerns that some mergers and acquisitions could fail.

For growing businesses, credit cards have become an essential financial management tool and the issuers have been raising the bar on their business credit card features, benefits, and rewards as they compete in the ever - expanding business credit card market.

A recent credit rating downgrade of major Canadian banks has raised more questions about Canada's economy, interest rates and fixed income markets.

Access to capital markets ranging from availability of senior credits to an ability to raise equity capital

The Fed can certainly talk about raising rates, and might even trot out an initial hike, but every time credit trouble threatens the markets, the Fed will predictably shift to frantic attempts to calm the market with easy money.

Resurgent market volatility in the last week of August led some observers to question whether the Federal Reserve should raise rates after nearly seven years of easy credit policy.

But the recent rise in mortgage defaults and the tightening of credit have raised expectations on Wall Street that the central bank had to cut interest rates to help protect the economy and to keep financial markets stable.

There are plenty of good and trustworthy companies that have been preset on the market for a few decades and who can teach you how to raise your bad credit; and a few of them will even keep their world and pay your money back in case they will fail to help you the way they have promised.

-- Argo Group's AUM has now declined by a cumulative 85 % (to $ 166 million), the $ 3.5 million Argo Local Markets Fund remains its only new fund - raising (since the credit crisis), it continues to write - off virtually all the management fees accrued & owed (now totaling $ 6.2 million) by the Argo Real Estate Opportunities Fund, and it's also tied up a majority of shareholder funds in illiquid loan & fund investments.

These lenders previously obtained funding from investors, but were unable to raise funds from the capital markets because of the credit crisis.

These bonds are bought by investors on the open market for less than their face value, and the company uses the cash it raises for whatever purpose it wants, before paying off the bondholders at term's end (usually by paying each bond at face value using money from a new package of bonds, in effect «rolling over» the debt to the next cycle, similar to you carrying a balance on your credit card).

Online banks and some credit unions are responding to Fed rate hikes by aggressively raising deposit rates on CDs, savings accounts and money market products, while the nation's biggest banks are largely standing pat — for now.

Medical card pays for endorsements — GE Capital's CareCredit card pays dozens of professional societies to help market its high - rate health care credit card, raising questions that could cloud the doctor - patient relationship... (See Medical card endorsements)

Market - leading third - party solar finance - installation companies, such as SolarCity, Sunrun and Vivint, have been pivotal agents of change that can be credited with raising residential solar PV to unprecedented heights in the U.S..

DTZ is looking to fund the purchase by raising an additional $ US1.3 billion in the US Term Loan B market with UBS, JPMorgan, Credit Suisse, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch making up the debt syndicate.

This will remove carbon credits from the market & raise the prices in the opposite way that energy efficiency lowers prices etc, and looks like a very good way to get environmental benefit for $ s. I always wondered this.

Image credit: Ecotricity Dale Vince's Wind - Powered Car Driven for First Time In my last post about Dale Vince's prototype electric sports car, the term «wind - powered» clearly raised some hackles who felt this was a deceptive marketing ploy.

As a senior officer and director, has had responsibility for strategic planning and marketing, accounting system design and implementation, major capital acquisitions, term financing and operating credit lines, internal reorganizations and governance issues, raising capital through government equity tax credit legislation, acting as corporate secretary and general counsel, employee hiring and termination matters.

Lowe's is a far second to Home Depot in the home improvement market; MasterCard and Visa dominate the credit card market; and Wells Fargo is still under a cloud for its banking practices, which raises the question of why Apple teamed with these particular companies.

In addition, the excess capital raised has caused some significant mergers, acquisitions and large portfolio purchases recently in the net lease market such as American Realty Capital Trust IV & American Realty Capital Properties» $ 4.5 billion buying spree since May or the merger between Cole Credit Property Trust II and Spirit Realty Capital.

Through his work at OFHEO, he is now credited with raising early warnings about the latent dangers in the US housing market.

Jay has directed the expansion of the firm's Capital Markets service offering, adding new capabilities in loan servicing, loan sales, GSE lending, equity fund raising, and credit tenant lease financing, and broadly expanding the firm's product coverage in the America's to include multi family, industrial, office, and retail brokerage and financing.

We have $ 733 million available for use under a variety of credit instruments, including a line of credit, an effective shelf registration statement and an «at - the - market» equity distribution program that allows us to raise capital through the public markets.