Sentences with phrase «foreign debt now»
Net foreign liabilities rose in the March quarter, with a $ 6.9 billion increase taking the stock of net foreign liabilities to $ 323.0 billion (59.9 per cent of GDP); net foreign debt now stands at $ 224.5 billion (41.6 per cent of GDP).
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America has been able to play the spendthrift because foreign lenders have shown a huge appetite for both our government and corporate debt — they now own $ 6 trillion of our $ 15.5 trillion in publicly owned Treasuries.
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.
Now, emerging markets have flexible - exchange rates, much less foreign debt, and substantially larger reserves of foreign currency.
And these deficits are now being financed in riskier ways: more debt than equity; more short - term debt than long - term debt; more foreign - currency debt than local - currency debt; and more financing from fickle cross-border interbank flows.
Making matters worse is the government's management of the crisis; over the past year, it has persisted in upholding its debt payments, but has now hit a brick wall as its foreign reserves have dwindled to US$ 9 billion.
If defaults start to cascade through the economy, it will be more difficult for China to hide its debt problems now that foreign investors are involved.
The foreign debt situation is not as threatening now as the most pessimistic people in the mid-eighties feared.
He also shares why short - term debt, U.S. municipal bonds in particular, are gaining interest from foreign investors right now.
The company is one of the public services that were swiftly privatized in recent years, supposedly to help pay the foreign debt (though the debt is now larger than ever).
A wide range of complex trading products are now available to consumers, including hybrid securities, contracts for difference (CFDs), foreign exchange (forex), collateralised debt obligations (CDOs), futures and options, and warrants.
iii) Now we're getting to the crux of it: The EU, ECB and Geithner (the IMF were apparently ambiguous) were resolutely opposed to any haircut on bank debt to avoid market contagion and to avoid writedowns on foreign bank holdings of this debt.
Now, the largest foreign holder of U.S. debt is China, which owns more than $ 1.24 trillion worth.