Sentences with phrase «dollar debt as»

Foreigners have typically purchased Canadian dollar debt as a currency play.

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TORONTO, May 1 - The Canadian dollar fell to a four - week low against its U.S. counterpart on Tuesday before paring its decline, as Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz said the outlook for the domestic economy is good despite the overhang of high household debt.

Even though the dollar gets a bounce from the safety trade, especially when investors are running from European default, the trend in the dollar is lower as we dig ourselves deeper into debt.

On Monday, the yen slid towards 99 per dollar, its lowest in nearly four years, as markets prepared for the BOJ to start buying about 70 percent of debt issued by the government.

Even as a professional, I've never lived above my means, never carried credit card debt, and paid down on my mortgage with every spare dollar I earned until it was paid off.

Meanwhile, in Detroit, the city initially classified its general obligation bonds as unsecured debt before settling with creditors for less than 100 cents on the dollar.

The idea of minting a trillion - dollar coin has picked up as an option that would allow the Treasury to temporarily print money to pay the country's bills and work around the debt ceiling.

Yet these major milestones are simply yawned off now, as if trillions of dollars in new debt is just par for the course.

But the growth of golf, the growth of all sports as a marketing force boosting the bottom line of multi-billion dollar corporations, owes a debt to «the King».

The rouble has weakened some 30 percent versus the dollar this year, as Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis have made it harder for banks and companies to refinance foreign currency debts and as tumbling oil prices have hurt government revenue.

The ratings agency Moody's maintained the US's top - notch «Aaa» credit rating Thursday, saying, «The diversity, dynamism, and competitiveness of the US economy, along with the US dollar's status as the preeminent international reserve currency and very large size and depth of the US Treasury market, offset rising fiscal pressures stemming from aging - related entitlement spending, higher debt - service payments, and recent policy actions that will likely reduce future revenues and increase expenditures.»

Investors should monitor current events, as well as the ratio of national debt to gross domestic product, Treasury yields, credit ratings, and the weaknesses of the dollar for signs that default risk may be rising.

At some point, if these policies are inflationary, then the vigilantes or those that hold dollar reserves, such as China and Brazil and Mexico, they will be in the driver's seat in terms of longer - term Treasury debt, 10 years and 30 years Treasury debt in terms of their yield.

Among his other accomplishments, he led a group of 20 law firms that prosecuted cutting - edge class action cases against financial institutions, such as Countrywide, Wells Fargo, and JPMorgan Chase, concerning destructive negative amortization loans that unknowingly caused borrowers to assume tens of thousands of dollars of additional debt.

Remington will remain in business as it reorganizes and unloads hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, according to court records.

As Tamsin McMahon wrote a couple of weeks ago in Maclean's, Canadians owe an average of $ 1.53 for every dollar they earn — just below where American debt stood when housemageddon hit south of the border.

To some extent, these concerns are allayed by the existence of natural hedges, such as foreign currency export income, although rising US dollar - denominated debt servicing costs at a time of falling US dollar - denominated commodity revenues would obviously be problematic.

The ruble's exchange rate has fallen as more rubles are thrown onto currency markets to obtain the dollars needed to pay interest and debt service on foreign loans (and to sustain capital flight in the absence of controls).

(a) Share of total Australian dollar assets (per cent), subcomponents are the share of liquid assets (b) While deposits with other banks are a store of liquidity, they do not contribute to the stock of liquidity held by the banking system as a whole, since the recipient banks will, in turn, need to hold additional liquidity against these deposits; consequently, they are excluded from this table (c) Includes Commonwealth Government Securities and securities issued by the states and territories (d) Includes notes and coins, Australian dollar debt issued by non-residents and securitised assets (excluding self - securitised assets)

While foreign interest in the loonie bodes well for Canadians who shop south of the border, it will also jolt Canada's fixed - income markets as reserve managers buy liquid debt securities with the Canadian dollars they own.

Since 2001 the silver and gold markets have gone up substantially as a reaction to the 20 year precious metals bear market from 1980 — 2000, massive increases in military spending, weakening global economies that REQUIRE Quantitative Easing to avoid deflation, the rise of competing currencies that weaken the dollar's trading status, excessive debts in Europe, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and so much more.

Today, it's perched atop global currency markets as Canada wins acclaim for its economic outlook and handling of the public debt, a point driven home Wednesday when a Russian Central Bank official confirmed that the Canadian dollar would be added to its international reserves.

But it will be, and this defrocking may occur in as short a period as five to 10 years... If the dollar loses status as the world's most reliable currency, the United States will lose the right to print money to pay its debt.

Due to the massive debt being amassed by government spending, the role of the dollar as the global reserve currency is threatened.

As the dollar went up in price, that would mean that third world countries and Asian countries whose international debts are denominated in dollars would have to pay much more of their exports.

Reviewing desired expenses, such as dining out, entertainment, clothing, or travel, and minimizing how much is spent in each category also helps uncover the extra dollars that can be used toward paying down the principal balance on student debt.

If so, then these needs to be traded on the open stock markets & accepted as payment just as a US Dollar for services, debts and any other purpose that the currency serves as.

The Company may enter into fair value hedges, such as interest rate swaps, to reduce the exposure of its debt portfolio to changes in fair value resulting from changes in interest rates by achieving a primarily U.S. dollar LIBOR - based floating interest expense.

Emerging - market dollar debt slid, as did an index of commodities.

And international buyers, from Europe to Japan, are backing away from U.S. corporate debt as a falling dollar drives up hedging costs at the same time curtailed central - bank buying drives up global yields.

Investors are hungry for high quality, multibillion - dollar debt deals, as shown by Anheuser - Busch InBev Finance Inc. of Belgium's success with two corporate bonds totaling more than $ 60 billion in 2016.

As an aside, those who believe that the province should simply «take back Translink» as a crown corporation (or similar) should understand that in practical accounting terms this would also involve taking on Translink's multibillion dollar debt (supported as it is by ridership fees, gas taxes, etc.), and that this would almost certainly immediately denigrate the province's AAA credit ratinAs an aside, those who believe that the province should simply «take back Translink» as a crown corporation (or similar) should understand that in practical accounting terms this would also involve taking on Translink's multibillion dollar debt (supported as it is by ridership fees, gas taxes, etc.), and that this would almost certainly immediately denigrate the province's AAA credit ratinas a crown corporation (or similar) should understand that in practical accounting terms this would also involve taking on Translink's multibillion dollar debt (supported as it is by ridership fees, gas taxes, etc.), and that this would almost certainly immediately denigrate the province's AAA credit ratinas it is by ridership fees, gas taxes, etc.), and that this would almost certainly immediately denigrate the province's AAA credit rating.

For example if there were to be a crisis, such as the recent sovereign debt issues in Europe, money would flow into gold in search of a safe haven, but also into dollars to escape the European issues.

Consequently, we will see all three soar in the years to come as the US Dollar is necessarily devalued to pay for the massively exploding US National Debt.

John also served as the VP and Head of Corporate Development for an early - stage renewable energy and feed company based in Florida as well as a Director in Business Development at Valens Capital, a billion dollar hedge fund focused on providing flexible, custom - tailored and cost - effective debt and equity growth financing solutions to small - cap public and private companies.

Remember that in terms of «debt productivity» each additional dollar of debt has less and less impact on GDP growth as a larger percentage of the new debt has to be used to service the existing debt.

Every dollar that is created is a debt owed to the Federal Reserve, which, despite its name is as Federal as Federal Express and carries as much reserve (zero) as a pocket with a hole in the bottom.

With the anticipated reduction in QE causing currencies like the Indian rupee to fall meaningfully as of late, the dollar denominated debt of Indian companies expands due solely to increasing currency differentials.

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.

As I've written before, an effective program of mortgage - debt forgiveness would effectly involve identifying those homeowners who are deepest in debt, and most willing to walk away from their obligations, and giving them tens of thousands of dollars in relief.

For years, individuals and investors that were concerned with debt, deficits and a weak dollar turned to gold as the ultimate safe haven, but now bitcoin is starting to become the alternative currency.

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Trust me going 90,000 dollars into debt to receive a masters of divinity and then expecting to make 24,000 a year does not really strike me as being in it for the money.

As Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban wrote in «The Coming Meltdown of College Education,» «We freak out about the Trillions of dollars in debt our country faces.

As author Penny Lernoux has noted: «When the Alliance for Progress was finally buried at the end of the 1960s, about the only thing that the Latin American countries had to show for it was an enormous foreign debt: 19.3 billion dollars compared to 8.8 billion in 1961 when the program was launched» (Cry of the People [Doubleday], p. 211).

We give Israel billions of dollars of aid every year from our hardworking tax - payers» money when nearly 50 million Americans live under poverty in this nation, as well as having lots of problems in this nation, such as bad infrastructure, high unemployment rate, billions of dollars in debt, etc..

In addition to material and labor being more affordable (provided you're willing to put some sweat equity into the project), houses can be built in stages and added on to as resources allow — certainly a better option than taking out an overwhelming mortgage and racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of debt.

In Asia, home of two - thirds of the world's bonded slaves, a person may spend an entire lifetime paying off a debt as low as 37 U.S. dollars.

One of the Australian wine industry's greatest success stories, Casella Wines, has plunged to its first loss in more than 20 years, putting it in breach of its debt covenants and forcing it to slash costs as a high Australian dollar cuts profit from its popular Yellow Tail label.

INVESTORS and dairy farmers are bracing for the worst from Murray Goulburn as weak commodity prices, rising debts and the soaring dollar look set to savage the co-operative's earnings and milk price forecasts.