Sentences with phrase «largely government debt»

The bank would create new euros and use the money to buy assets on the market, largely government debt.

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In essence, if correct, this means there is less price risk in government debt securities than corporate fixed income issues, and therefore the extra 10 % should largely be made up of government bonds rather than corporates and preferred shares.

The market debt incurred by the federal government was largely the result of financing ongoing operations, unlike that of the Crown corporations.

But in the 1920s the Allies imposed an unpayably high reparations burden on Germany — largely to obtain the foreign exchange to pay the Inter-Ally arms debts that the U.S. Government insisted on collecting, rather than forgiving these debts as allies traditionally had done among themselves upon achieving victory.

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, as governments mobilized to manage their public debt, they largely ignored their public assets.

The next fiscal squeeze could be very different from those of the past few decades if it starts with a debt wall more comparable to that of the 1920s and 1930s, when governments» room for fiscal manoeuvre was sharply limited by their predecessors» decision to fund the huge costs of World War I largely by borrowing rather than by taxes.

Puerto Rico was suffering a massive and unprecedented population loss before Hurricane Maria hit, largely because of a debt crisis that bankrupted the island's government and crippled the economy.

Four million residents are here in Osun and this debt anyway has been transformed largely to a bond organised by Federal Government that would last for twenty years.

Given the fact that rates are incredibly low, and the US government has largely shifted to short - term debt, treasuries are not a good investment if your vision of the future is similar to the original poster's.

Meanwhile, government giveaways in the form of free electricity to farmers and a reluctance among politicians to raise power tariffs to sufficiently cover costs have drained cash reserves from the largely state - run electricity - distribution companies, leaving them with mounting debt and hampered ability to purchase power.

Kenya Airways has undergone a complex and contentious USD 2 billion financial restructuring; the intricate deal saw through a variety of things, such as: re-profiling of payments owned to various lenders; a debt - for - equity swap and the agreement of a new financial facility from Kenyan banks, which thus placed the airline largely in shared ownership between Kenya's government, owning 48.9 % and a consortium of 11 Kenyan commercial banks owning 38.1 %

«While we understand that the federal government is making cuts across departments as part of the debt - reduction plan, our agency largely depends on grants and contribution monies to stay open,» she says.