It was nothing against CA, but the data showed a very
high default rate in the state.
An investigation by New York City's Department of Consumer Affairs of
the high default rate in consumer credit cases found that disreputable process - serving companies were never actually serving process, but instead effectively tossing the papers in the sewer and filing false affidavits of service.
The precipitating factor for the Financial Crisis of 2007 — 2008 was
a high default rate in the United States subprime home mortgage sector — the bursting of the «subprime bubble».
For example, the yields on CCC - rated high yield bonds are quite low on a 10 - year basis given the historically
higher default rates in this low - quality portion of the market.
But it might not be for any one reason, such as
a higher default rate in state X or fewer natural disasters in state Y. Or more regulations in another state.
Not exact matches
Among those that Moody's
rates, there were nine
defaults in the first quarter, an «all - time
high,» as Moody's put it, «reflecting the fallout of changing consumer behavior and advancing e-commerce for traditional brick - and - mortar retail.»
A
default could result
in Valeant having to pay back its loans immediately — something that would be very hard for it to do — or face much
higher borrowing
rates.
These types of loans also carry other risks, such as demand provisions under which a bank can arbitrarily demand repayment, as well as
high default rates, putting borrowers
in a difficult spot.
Investors could decide to ditch investments
in the developing world both because
higher rates in rich countries would make those investments comparatively less attractive and because their appetite for risk would likely drop
in case of a U.S.
default.
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 these circumstances, banks will respond to
higher cash
rates by rationing credit, to ensure that their average
default rates remain low.
If it is mainly the
highest - risk borrowers who take advantage of
higher limits, or if the
higher limits encourage more reckless borrowing
in general, then
default rates will climb, eating away at profit margins.
While I don't expect a significant deterioration
in credit markets next year, conditions are turning less favorable: corporate leverage is
higher,
default rates are rising and with oil hovering near $ 40, energy issuers are at risk.
Investing
in higher - yielding, lower -
rated, floating -
rate loans and debt securities involves greater risk of
default, which could result
in loss of principal — a risk that may be heightened
in a slowing economy.
In fact, you often end up earning way more $ $ $, at
higher interest
rates, as I did on 2 of my
defaulted investments.
Many employers are reluctant to suggest
higher default contribution
rates due to a concern that their workers might blindly accept what is not
in their best interest, or that they might get intimidated and opt out of the plan altogether,» says Dr. Shlomo Benartzi, senior academic advisor to the Voya Behavioral Finance Institute for Innovation.
It has a very very
high default rate (as mentioned
in the con section) and the customer service is really poor.
Because credit and
default risk are the dominant drivers of valuations of
high yield bonds, changes
in market interest
rates are relatively less important.
Quantitative easing subsidizes U.S. capital flight, pushing up non-dollar currency exchange
rates Quantitative easing may not have set out to disrupt the global trade and financial system or start a round of currency speculation, but that is the result of the Fed's decision
in 2008 to keep unpayably
high debts from
defaulting by re-inflating U.S. real estate and financial markets.
Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged
in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with
high - interest
rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of
defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans
in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and,
in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed
higher - education qualification verification institution
in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
For roughly three decades, U.S. non-financial corporate debt as a percentage of U.S. nominal GDP and the
high yield
default rate moved
in tandem.
Rising interest
rates are likely to result
in investors projecting ahead to slower economic growth and the possibility of
higher default rates.
Investments
in high - yield («junk») bonds involve greater risk of price volatility, illiquidity, and
default than
higher -
rated debt securities.
Although he says he is not sure whether the market will suffer $ 10 billion or $ 30 billion
in defaults, he is certain that there will be a panic at the margin, and Muni bonds from the
highest -
rated on down will fall,
in part because other investors tend not to step to invest.
Meanwhile, corporate debt remains at record
highs while
default rates have been at sustained lows — «something's got ta give,» S&P wrote
in a report earlier this month.
High - yield corporate bonds are
rated below investment grade and are subject to greater risk of
default, which could result
in loss of principal — a risk that may be heightened
in a slowing economy.
In the recession before that, the
default rate went as
high as 7.79 %.
Those
higher interests
rates increase the financial burden on your country, and that
in turn makes
default more likely.
Holding an individual bond to maturity will result
in the return of principal (assuming the bond issuer doesn't
default), but those nominal dollars will be worth less with inflation and during periods of
higher interest
rates.
Also, if your credit history reveals that you usually
default in making payment, you should expect
high interest
rate.
Since 1970, when they began tracking
defaults, the
rate is even lower at 0.07 %.2 Compare that to global corporate bonds, which
defaulted at a 2.06 %
rate in 2016.3 It's important to note that the overall muni
rate remained that low despite 2016 having the
highest municipal
defaults volume on record, all related to Puerto Rico.
Subprime auto - loan delinquencies are rising and Experian recently reported that the national bank credit - card
default rate set a 46 - month
high in April at 3.35 %, which was up from 3.09 % a year earlier.
Absent the FDIC and Federal Reserve, banks would substitute a good credit
rating and
high capitalization for «insurance» or credit
default swaps, because that will enable them to take cash loans from other banks to meet cash shortfalls, and ideally to prevent withdrawals
in the first place.
But because they're a small biotech company, with
high risk of
default (i.e., a
high risk of not paying off their debts), they would have to pay a very
high interest
rate in order to make the bond attractive enough for investors to purchase it.
The
default rate of black graduates is significantly
higher than the
default rate for first generation, low - income graduates (13 percent, not shown
in table).
[xxxii] A recent study by Jackson and Reynolds, for example, finds that loans promote
higher rates of persistence and completion among black undergraduates, and concludes that despite racial gaps
in default rates, loans are nonetheless «an imperfect, but overall positive tool for reducing educational inequality» by race.
In 2006, a U.S. Department of Education report noted that black graduates were more likely to take on student debt, and in 2007, an Education Sector analysis of the same data found that black graduates from the 1992 - 93 cohort defaulted at a rate five times higher than that of white or Asian students in the 10 years after graduation (Hispanic / Latino graduates showed a similar, but somewhat smaller disparity
In 2006, a U.S. Department of Education report noted that black graduates were more likely to take on student debt, and
in 2007, an Education Sector analysis of the same data found that black graduates from the 1992 - 93 cohort defaulted at a rate five times higher than that of white or Asian students in the 10 years after graduation (Hispanic / Latino graduates showed a similar, but somewhat smaller disparity
in 2007, an Education Sector analysis of the same data found that black graduates from the 1992 - 93 cohort
defaulted at a
rate five times
higher than that of white or Asian students
in the 10 years after graduation (Hispanic / Latino graduates showed a similar, but somewhat smaller disparity
in the 10 years after graduation (Hispanic / Latino graduates showed a similar, but somewhat smaller disparity).
[2] More recent work that tracks debt outcomes for individual borrowers documents that the main problem is not
high levels of debt per student (
in fact,
defaults are lower among those who borrow more, since this typically indicates
higher levels of college attainment), but rather the low earnings of dropout and for - profit students, who have
high rates of
default even on relatively small debts.
It sounds as if the private teacher preparation system
in Texas comes very close to the scandalous and very expensive (to students, parents, and the federal government - through very
high default rates on guaranteed student loans) «private college» system which is currently being forced to clean up its act.
They find that the
higher the percentage of public employee who are unionized, the greater risk investors see of the state
defaulting on its bonds, resulting
in higher interest
rates
Defaulting on a loan will cause a substantial and lasting drop
in the debtor's credit score, as well as extremely
high interest
rates on any future loan.
Ratings range from «AAA» to «Aaa» for «
high grade» issues very likely to be repaid to»D» for issues that are
in currently
in default.
These loans come
in small amounts but carry extremely
high interest
rates, so they are easy to
default.
This could have the effect of chilling FHA lending
in economically depressed areas of the country (which tend to have
higher default rates), adding another obstacle to housing market recovery.
Scores below 580 are indicative of a consumer's poor financial history, which can include late monthly payments, debt
defaults, or bankruptcy; individuals
in this «subprime» category can end up paying auto loan
rates that are 5 or 10 times
higher than what prime consumers receive, especially for used cars or longer term loans.
An option could be to invest
in an ETF with short term bonds (e.g. 1 year) with AAA credit
rating (
high quality, so very low
default rate).
The main danger of a junk bond fund is that there will be a
higher rate of bankruptcy /
default than
in an investment grade bond fund.
High interest
rates, short repayment times and disastrous consequences for
defaulting are common threads
in the very large family of loans to avoid.
Since 1970, when they began tracking
defaults, the
rate is even lower at 0.07 %.2 Compare that to global corporate bonds, which
defaulted at a 2.06 %
rate in 2016.3 It's important to note that the overall muni
rate remained that low despite 2016 having the
highest municipal
defaults volume on record, all related to Puerto Rico.
Bad credit student loans already have
high interest
rates compared to regular student loans but if you also
default on the loan, you can incur
in penalty fees and additional charges.