Saving is not just about earning a return on your investment, but also about minimizing the amount you spend on
interest servicing your debt.
Not exact matches
This will set off a vicious cycle of higher deficits that lead to higher
debt, which in turn will mean higher
interest costs and less funding available for healthcare, education and other provincial
services.
Lower
interest rates, the report noted, could provide some cushion for
debt servicing to vulnerable firms with an
interest cover between 1 and 1.75 - comprising around 15 percent of the total
debt of top 500 listed borrowers in fiscal 2015.
Governor Snyder has said that the bankruptcy filing will allow the city to spend more money on public
services because less of its money will be hurdled toward paying
interest on
debt.
«The process of lowering
interest rates causing higher levels of
debt,
debt service and spending, I think is coming to an end.»
The Internal Revenue
Service monitors such
debt closely, though, to make sure it is not excessive and that adequate
interest is paid.
And,
debt service will require cash profitability to pay the
interest expense on that
debt.
The Bank of Canada, for one, has carefully assessed the economic risks of consumer
debt in order to determine how quickly it can raise
interest rates without piling on too many
debt -
servicing costs for over-stretched households.
They also fear that at such elevated levels, many Canadian households would be unable to withstand a financial shock such as a loss of income, or a sudden spike in
interest rates that raised
debt services charges.
As well, Canada's
debt -
service ratio, which measures
interest payments and amortizations relative to income, is at 2.9 per cent.
Your
debt -
service coverage ratio, also known as the
debt coverage ratio, is the ratio of cash a business has available for
servicing its
debt, which includes making payments on principal,
interest and leases.
Meanwhile, the total household
debt service ratio, measured as total obligated payments of principal and
interest as a proportion of household disposable income for both mortgage and non-mortgage
debt, remained flat at 13.8 per cent in the fourth quarter.
This is because the province has accumulated a large public
debt that given the prospects for an economic slowdown and / or rising
interest rates will potentially increase fiscal pressure via
debt service costs which in 2016 - 17 totaled $ 11.7 billion or just over 8 percent of total government spending.
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.»
Unhedged foreign currency
debt, as was prominent in 1997, means that a fall in the currency pushes up
debt servicing costs for the government, local corporates and banks, but a rise in
interest rates to assist the exchange rate has the same adverse effect.
Prepa said on Wednesday that it was financing its principal and
interest payment with $ 153 million in cash and the rest from its
debt -
service reserve accounts.
Taxpayers who do not own their home have no comparable ability to deduct
interest paid on
debt incurred to purchase goods and
services.
It would not be surprising if the household sector had become more sensitive to news about
interest rates, given the increased
debt and
debt servicing loads that it is now carrying.
As
debts grow, more income must be paid out as
interest and amortization rather than being available for spending on goods and
services.
In a low - inflation environment, nominal
interest rates are also low, and households are able to
service much higher levels of
debt than they could in the past.
Toward debtor countries American diplomats work through the World Bank and IMF to demand that debtors raise their
interest rates and impose taxes and austerity programs to keep their wages low, sell off their public domain to pay their foreign
debts, and deregulate their economy so as to enable foreign investors to privatize local electricity, telephone
services and other infrastructure formerly provided at subsidized rates to help these economies grow.
Interest and amortization payments to savers tend to increase beyond the economy's overall ability to pay as
debt service absorbs more and more personal disposable income and corporate cash flow.
Homeowners and consumers, real estate investors and corporations have pledged so much of their income to pay
debt service that there is not much left to pay
interest on yet more
debt.
A dynamic is put in place in which
debt keeps labor down — not only by eating up its wages in
debt service, but in making workers suffer sharp increases in the
interest rates they have to pay or even risk losing their homes if they miss a payment by going on strike or being fired.
Interest rates remain low, corporate balance sheets generally remain strong and
debt -
service costs appear manageable.
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).
They are to pay for their rising
debt service not by taxing the population, but by selling public assets to the financial, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sectors — the very sectors which are receiving the growing
interest payments on the national
debts resulting from lowering taxes on wealth.
A spike in
interest rates makes it harder for issuers to
service their
debt, potentially raising default risk.
For preferred equity and
debt investments, EquityMultiple receives a
servicing fee in the form of a «spread» between the
interest rate being paid to them by the sponsor or originating lender and that being paid to investors.
Stand in a shopping mall with a pair of scissors and a sign offering a simple
service: to put an end to extortionate
interest rates and mounting
debt with one considerate cut.
For example, people with lower incomes are likely to be sensitive to
interest rate changes because of the potential effects on their employment income and their
debt -
service costs.
Erskine Bowles, co-chair of the Simpson - Bowles Deficit Reduction Commission has calculated that
service on the
interest for that
debt alone, if rates stay near record lows, will be $ 1 trillion by 2020!
For the federal government,
debt service is the
interest paid on the national
debt.
Debt service: The amount needed to repay interest and principal on a debt over a period of t
Debt service: The amount needed to repay
interest and principal on a
debt over a period of t
debt over a period of time.
Inc.
Debt watchdog Moody's Investors
Service noted Nordstrom's adjusted
debt amounts to 2.6 times its earnings before
interest taxes and depreciation.
Stoking the economy under these conditions, we will breed inflation forcing the Fed to increase
interest rates which will stifle growth and increase
debt service costs.
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With the rising
interest rate and Treasuries» yields, the question of
servicing the mounting
debt could become a problem for the US economy, the analyst warns.
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 was the biggest proportional decline in
interest rates, delivering the biggest reduction in the
debt servicing burden of the household sector, seen in Australia's modern history.
Corporate gearing ratios remain conservative by historical standards and
debt servicing costs remain low, reflecting the relatively low level of
interest rates.
The ongoing accumulation of household
debt has led to a further increase in the
debt -
servicing ratio;
interest payments as a proportion of disposable income rose to 9.3 per cent in the September quarter (Graph 23), and are expected to rise further.
The recent rise in the
debt -
servicing ratio is largely a result of households increasing their
debt levels, rather than an unexpected sharp rise in
interest rates, as occurred in the late 1980s.
This is probably correct, but there can be transitional difficulties if borrowers have not factored in rising
interest rates, have assumed that the
debt servicing burden will be quickly eroded by rising incomes or, in the case of investment property, that it can be sold quickly without loss if a need arises.
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This puts central banks in a position where they will have attempt to control
interest rates not by discounting lending, but by buying
debt from the government directly, so that markets don't price the new issuance at a level that would destroy the nation's ability to
service a
debt load that is growing larger all the time.
Despite a slight increase in long - term
interest rates in recent weeks, he said
interest rates remain extraordinarily low and
debt service levels comfortable.
While lower global
interest rates have helped contain
debt -
servicing costs, the past year or so has seen a significant increase in net dividend payments.
Debt Service Coverage Ratio = Net Profit plus Depreciation plus Amortization plus
Interest Expense divided by Current Portion of Existing plus Proposed
Debt.
Higher U.S.
interest rates will make
servicing debt tougher for developing country governments and businesses, especially those who have borrowed in dollars.