At the same time, there is an increased risk that sovereign
debt concerns in several countries could trigger renewed strains in global financial markets.
Consumer debt and the housing market finally appear to be stabilizing here in the Great White North, at the same time
debt concerns in the United States and Europe have begun to dissipate.
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).
Not exact matches
Paul is among a core group of conservatives
in the House and Senate that have opposed the funding legislation due to avowed
concerns about the federal
debt.
There's opportunity
in emerging market
debt despite growing
concerns over higher credit levels and the impact of a strong dollar, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs Asset Management told CNBC on Tuesday.
U.S. retail sales figures may well determine how Wall Street opens — as well as worries about Europe's
debt crisis,
concerns over the U.S. economy have also been behind the recent turmoil
in markets.
U.S. government
debt prices rose on Wednesday on
concerns over U.S. President Trump involvement
in an FBI investigation.
Despite some
concerns over the gigantic
debt pile
in the China, a former Goldman Sachs chairman told CNBC he can not get excite about the issue.
The troubled drugmaker filed its 2015 financial report
in late April, allaying
concerns about a possible default on its
debt of more than $ 30 billion.
Dr. Greenspan has long been
concerned that the high US government
debt levels are going to cause a Greek - like implosion
in the USA.
Canada's chief economic stewards remain
concerned about
debt and home prices
in Greater Toronto and Vancouver.
«Can it really be of
concern that some of the largest banks
in Europe,
in Japan,
in China and indeed
in Canada can not maintain effective markets
in their own sovereign
debt?»
Flaherty worries about U.S.
debt, too, calling it a «persisting
concern» for Canada and highlighting the government's interest
in other foreign markets.
(See Making Student
Debt Less Sticky) While the very uniqueness of each loan and each employee's situation makes it inefficient and uneconomical for any one business to take on the problem,
in the aggregate this problem is a large source of growing
concern for more than 40 million student and parent debtors (as well as their employers).
There's a lot of misinformation out there
concerning when you can and can't ditch your student loan
debt in bankruptcy.
The softer reading, especially slower export orders, adds to
concerns about an expected loss of momentum
in the world's second - largest economy, as policymakers navigate
debt risks and a heated trade row with the U.S.
Those
debt concerns have led some to claim that shadow banking
in the Chinese economy could eventually lead to a financial crisis if the bubble pops.
Recent
concern over Greece's sovereign
debt has focused attention on some deep - seated problems
in Europe.
Capital outflows lead to a weaker currency, which
concerns the hordes of Chinese companies that borrowed
debt in foreign currencies over the past few years and now have to pay it back with a weaker yuan.
«I'm really
concerned that we're going to have a real collapse
in Venezuela
in oil production over the course of the next year,» which would
in turn affect the government's ability to pay its
debt, Rodriguez — who was head of the Venezuelan Congressional Budget Office from 2000 to 2004 — said at the AS / COA event.
China may witness its first local government bond defaults, although the timing was uncertain, Fitch Ratings said
in a press release issued on Sunday, amid persistent
concerns over high
debt levels
in the world second largest economy.
In an era when the pension liabilities of local governments remain a
concern, investors may want to consider the
debt offered by established public enterprises — airports and utilities, for example — as an attractive alternative to lease revenue and pension obligation bonds.
Some are also
concerned about the huge
debt load that AT&T would incur
in buying Time Warner.
Payday lending is just one facet of the FCA's
concerns however, with the regulator also looking into credit card
debt and car financing, both areas that have seen significant growth
in recent years.
The FCA is not the first body to express
concerns about the state of credit
in the UK, with ratings agency Moody's downgrading the outlook on four out of five types of UK consumer
debt investments at the beginning of August.
Moody's credit rating agency changed Ontario's
debt rating
in July to negative from stable, citing
concerns about the province's ability to eliminate the deficit as scheduled.
Student loan
debt is a grave
concern in modern America.
Another
concern is the results of last weekend's regional elections, the worst showing
in thirty years for Spain's ruling party, and the risk that this will lead to the discovery of higher
debts accumulating on the part of Spain's municipalities.
Beyond these
concerns, of course, we still need to fix problems that have been with us for some time during the crisis: unacceptably high unemployment, especially among young people; high levels of
debt in many countries; and the need to complete the financial reform agenda.
The rapid growth of
debt in China since the global financial crisis has also been cause for
concern... and rightly so.
Shares
in several HNA public companies have slumped
in recent weeks over
debt concerns.
People's Daily, the main newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, used the term last week
in a strong warning after President Xi expressed
concern about
debt.
The cheap loans helped propel property values to record highs
in big cities such as New York and San Francisco, alleviating
concerns about the mountain of
debt coming due.
36 One such exceptional period was
in mid-October 2015, amid some market
concern about the
debt ceiling that eventually abated.
«We are very
concerned that Remington will be unable to refinance
debt that comes due
in April 2019 given its weak operating performance and high financial leverage,» Kevin Cassidy, a Moody's Investors Service Inc analyst, wrote
in a research note last month.
Canadian households are carrying near - record
debt loads, and we are growing increasingly
concerned about risks
in some housing markets.
Hope for positive effects from interest rate cuts, versus continued deterioration of corporate earnings and employment, as well as sudden
concern over the
debt problems
in Argentina (which we noted
in early May).
So «Apollo is preparing to meet with big
debt investors including mutual fund managers
in several cities over the next few months to ease
concerns that the firm protects its investments
in troubled companies at the expense of creditors.»
Author Charles Steindel explains that when the U.S. personal saving rate took a negative turn
in second - quarter 2005, it raised
concerns that Americans may have to curtail spending and accept a lower standard of living as they pay off rising
debts.
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 concer
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 concer
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 concer
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 concer
in China's
debt servicing capacity,
in which case, with government debt at well below 25 % of GDP, rising debt would not be a concer
in which case, with government
debt at well below 25 % of GDP, rising
debt would not be a
concern.
Specifically, there is great
concern that low volatility
in the markets is bound to reverse, that investors are ignoring the real
concerns about North Korea, a U.S.
debt ceiling that expires this fall, an unpredictable president and Washington gridlock.
Last week
in London, for example, an analyst from a research company with whose views I am usually
in strong sympathy and who herself is very bearish on China's growth prospects, airily dismissed Chinese
debt concerns by pointing out that Chinese government
debt, even after adding back estimates of losses
in the banking system, is lower than that of the Japanese government, and because the government's
debt burden has not been a problem
in Japan it won't be a problem
in China.
The surge
in debt of the past few years has created tremendous
concern, but I would argue that this
concern would not be justified if investment levels
in China were still too low.
Shares
in the company were once again sliding on Monday after the company's C.E.O., Elon Musk, joked on April 1 that Tesla had gone bankrupt, an apparent attempt to make light of
concerns that the electric car maker is straining under its
debt load.
It is worth remembering that Reagan, hardly a fan of reversing course or raising taxes, found it necessary to propose significant tax increases
in 1982 and 1984 (the equivalent
in today's economy of $ 3.5 tn over a decade) due to
concerns about federal
debt.
My biggest
concern is not households or government
debt but corporate
debt, which is 160 % of GDP — one of the highest
in the world.
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.
Last year, iHeartMedia flagged «substantial doubt» about its ability to continue as a going
concern, as it struggled to get out from under a massive
debt load it took on as part of a leveraged buyout of billboard company Clear Channel Outdoor
in 2008.
Concerns over
debt and accounting have hammered shares
in Asia's largest budget carrier.
The most important elements
in near term market action will probably remain
debt and accounting
concerns.