Sentences with phrase «debt burden as»

More important factors that affect your credit score are how timely you pay your bills and your overall debt burden as indicated on your credit report.

Much more important factors for your scores are how timely you pay your bills and your overall debt burden as indicated on your credit report.

When BP engaged with investors after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, it made clear that its efforts were dedicated to costs — lowering the costs of litigation, lowering the costs of the judgments against it, and lowering the costs of its debt burden as it sought to lower interest expenses by turning unsecured debt into secured debt.

This doesn't make it impossible for China to do so, but it is all the more worrying that no country has suffered from economic imbalances or from debt burdens as deep as those of China today.

Not exact matches

Ontario has set out a target to balance the budget within a few years, as has Quebec, whose debt burden is slightly heavier.

The agreement we announced today is a significant accomplishment, as it allows us to definitively address the more than $ 20 billion in debt that has burdened our capital structure.

Starting your business debt - free removes the burden of having to make monthly payments as you launch your business, allowing you to be profitable sooner.

As everyone knows by now, Canadian households are carrying record debt burdens.

As I fell head over heels for Martin, the thought of burdening him with my debt seemed wildly unfair.

Pharmaceutical giant Valeant (vrx) earned some reprieve Tuesday, with shares of the company rising as much as 15 % on news that it had moved to ease its troubling debt burden.

Private - equity acquisitions of retailers have become increasingly rare, as the investment firms worry about increasing headwinds facing the industry and their portfolio companies struggle with the debt burden left behind from leveraged buyouts.

With SoftBank «s founder Masayoshi Son reluctant to sell stakes in investments seen as having large upside potential such as Alibaba, listing the telecoms business could provide a place to park some of the conglomerate's large debt burden.

Scarred by the financial crisis, and often juggling student loan and other debt burdens, debt is correctly viewed as something that can upend or even sink a business.

Jan 5 - Neiman Marcus Group Ltd on Friday named Geoffroy van Raemdonck, an executive at upscale clothing manufacturer Ralph Lauren Corp, to succeed Karen Katz as chief executive officer of the debt - burdened luxury retailer next month.

Even as they near retirement age, a new report says parents are shouldering an increasingly large burden of their children's college expenses with warning signs that many are in debt over their heads.

As Scotiabank mentioned in a note last week: «Higher interest rates are going to make the burden of refinancing the debt considerably heavier, and as more money goes into servicing the debt, it means less money is available to spend on other things, which could lead to less infrastructure spending and increased austerity.&raquAs Scotiabank mentioned in a note last week: «Higher interest rates are going to make the burden of refinancing the debt considerably heavier, and as more money goes into servicing the debt, it means less money is available to spend on other things, which could lead to less infrastructure spending and increased austerity.&raquas more money goes into servicing the debt, it means less money is available to spend on other things, which could lead to less infrastructure spending and increased austerity.»

Further, according to BofA - Merrill's analyst team at a midyear press conference on Wednesday in New York, any positive budgetary effect of the tax increases would be overshadowed by the growing burden of the U.S. debt ceiling as spending and hiring decisions are put on hold and the election heightens partisanship.

As an aside, I was pleased to see that Jonathan Anderson, whose work I used to read when he was a bank analyst, seems to think that growth has to be knocked back to 3 percent for it to be sustainable and for the debt burden to stop growing.

And as I shall suggest in a subsequent post, the hurricane has greatly exacerbated Puerto Rico's profound debt burden and development challenges.

But that's unlikely, given major barriers to growth, such as a massive debt burden...

But in the 1920s the Allies imposed an unpayably high reparations burden on Germany — largely to obtain the foreign exchange to pay the Inter-Ally arms debts that the U.S. Government insisted on collecting, rather than forgiving these debts as allies traditionally had done among themselves upon achieving victory.

There are so many reasons why this is wrong (to list just the most obvious, poor countries have much lower debt thresholds than rich countries, Japanese debt can not possibly be dismissed as not being a problem, and because it is almost impossible to find an economist who understands the relationship between nominal interest rates and implicit amortization, Japanese government debt has probably only been manageable to date because GDP growth close to zero has permitted interest rates close to zero) and yet inane comparisons between China's debt burden and Japan's debt burden are made all the time.

To paraphrase Charles Baudelaire's quip that the devil wins at the point where the public comes to believe that he doesn't exist, the financial sector's lobbying effort wins at the point where people believe that running into debt contributes to economic growth rather than burdens it, and that they will end up richer by acting as bank customers.

It is important to understand how debt payments are managed in order to recognize that whether or not China's debt burden is socialized has very little to do with the resolution of China's debt burden (aside from the fact that it never was «off» the government balance sheet in any meaningful way), just as analysts must recognize that an unsustainable increase in debt is embedded into China's current growth model, and is not an accidental bit of bad luck.

Even before Budget 2012, the debt burden of the government was forecast to decline steadily, and program spending as a share of the economy was also forecast to decline steadily.

There is in fact no «magic number» as to the «optimal» size of a country's debt burden.

Canada recorded the lowest debt burden at 37.8 %, roughly the same as in 1988.

Assuming that the total amount of bad debt in the banking system exceeds total bank capital — something which is almost certainly true — the conversion of debt which can not be serviced into an equity position that is unlikely to generate much more (and in an economic downturn, which is when we are most concerned about the debt burden, we can assume that the decline in value of these equity positions will be highly correlated) leaves the net indebtedness of the banking system unchanged, and so the contingent liabilities of the government are unchanged even as reported debt in the system declines.

The most likely is that China experiences a long, but orderly, growth deceleration as it grinds away at its debt burden, but under easily specified conditions each of the three is possible.

It is difficult to understand why the record burden of consumer debt will be impervious to a rising unemployment rate, particularly when companies are facing a substantial acceleration in wage inflation in recent months as they try to shore up profit margins - making substantial new layoffs inevitable.

The fact that there is a additional liquidity for bond purchases does not mean, as I see it, that Spanish competitiveness has been resolved and it does not mean that the economy can grow out of its debt burden.

Unless China is able, very improbably as I have argued, to reform the financial sector deeply enough and quickly enough, the cost of a more competitive (i.e. more highly subsidized) export sector is ultimately a rise in the debt burden, unless of course Beijing is willing to tolerate higher unemployment or to implement greater wealth transfers from the state to the household sector.

The debt burdens were reported by business schools to U.S. News & World Report as part of its recently published annual rankings project.

Accounts receivable financing, also known as factoring, offers a company or practice a rapid cash infusion without the burden of an additional monthly debt payment.

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).

This is sound policy as far as it goes, but the question arises as to how to finance significant deficits over a period of time without unduly increasing the public debt burden.

In addition, indicators of financial stress — such as loan arrears — remain low, suggesting that the high debt - servicing burden is not yet imposing a significant constraint on consumer spending.

Strong profitability, low interest rates and a debt burden well below historical peaks have all tended to hold down the interest burden of the corporate sector: as a share of gross operating surplus, net interest paid by the corporate sector remains well below historical averages.

[5] Norway's booming housing markets and cheap interest rates are encouraging households to engage in a typical bubble - style debt binge as private debt burdens are estimated to grow to about 204 percent of disposable incomes in 2012.

New Dole looks to be massively undervalued, will still hold very good high value assets, especially saleable land, has some future potential catalysts that could help unlock value, it should be able to compete better with Fresh Del Monte and Chiquita, and new Dole will now be freed up to make acquisitions and improvements to its business and operations after the transaction with Itochu closes as it will not be burdened by the massive amount of debt that it has carried for years.

Make a $ 450,000 home loan with 3 % down to a couple making $ 35,000 a year working at Starbucks; already burdened with $ 90,000 in student loans, $ 20,000 in credit card debt and FICO scores of 610, after they tell the loan officer they make $ 120,000 as senior managers of a large multi national corporation When they default on the home loan, file bankruptcy to discharge student and credit card debt and start living in section 8 housing, you now have a new brother and sister.

The idea that we have seen the last bear market in equities ever does seem extremely far fetched, though few in the mainstream media want to admit that the US is facing huge debt burdens that will probably only grow as time goes on.

Lenders assess how reasonable an applicant's debt burden is by looking at his or her debt - to - income ratio, which measures the debt an individual is carrying as a percentage of their income.

Would financial markets care if the deficit were not eliminated until 2016 - 17, as long as it is declining and the debt burden is falling?

They teach the tactics of asset stripping and how to replace industrial engineering with financial engineering, as if financialization creates wealth faster than the debt burden.

Besides saving students thousands off of their cumulative student debt burden, this payment strategy sets the stage for future personal finance skills — such as budgeting, and making small sacrifices in the present that will bring big rewards in the future.

** Abbott Laboratories said it was not looking at acquisitions this year as the healthcare company looks to ease its debt burden after a spree of deals last year.

The recent Albertan NDP budget has further diminished any incentive, by moving further down the path towards government reliance that eliminates opportunity, as the burden of Alberta's record debt mounts.

Their total debt burden can increase significantly as they enter their 30s and are paying off a mortgage and credit card debt as well.

These deficits are not large (as a share of GDP) and the projected debt burden still continues to fall.