Sentences with phrase «low government debt»

At the same time we had low government debt, conservative banking practices, a strong democracy, an effective legal system and low levels of official corruption.

Polish equities also look like a potential winner according to Lynn due to the countries fast growth rate (relative to euro zone), its low government debt and the country's location (next door to Germany).

Not exact matches

But in recent years, as the Bank of Canada held interest rates to historically low levels and consumer debt skyrocketed, the federal government tightened mortgage restrictions on regulated financial institutions, including HCG.

The federal government easily could do more because its debt is low and borrowing costs may never be lower.

Low sovereign bond yields have long helped the government finance its debt, thus, higher yields would undermine the sustainability of its fiscal position, analysts said.

U.S. government debt prices were lower on Monday morning as investors monitored U.S. - Russia relations and digest new earnings reports.

U.S. government debt prices were lower on Thursday morning on monetary policy comments and plans to overhaul the tax system.

U.S. government debt prices were lower on Wednesday morning as investors digested comments from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen.

«If the BOJ were to ease policy, it would therefore be most natural for it to increase government debt purchases and target longer - dated bonds,» Kuroda said in a confirmation hearing in the lower house of parliament.

Even though our activities are likely to result in a lower national debt over the long term, I sometimes hear the complaint that the Federal Reserve is enabling bad fiscal policy by keeping interest rates very low and thereby making it cheaper for the federal government to borrow.

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.

Government officials hoping that the Fed keeps interest rates low to help finance the debt load might be out of luck.

This can be expected to produce a negative trickle - down effect, as higher government debt leads to higher interest rates, lower business investment, and higher future tax rates — possibly on the middle class.

U.S. government debt yields were lower on Tuesday after North Korea conducted its most powerful nuclear test and key Fed speeches.

He says the higher rates have helped keep the accumulation of household debt lower than it otherwise would have been had Canada continued with government belt - tightening approaches of the past.

Obviously, besides immediately abandoning its propaganda campaign, the Chinese government should reassure the global business community with concrete, honest, realistic, and market - based solutions that address the underlying pathologies of China's poor economic performance: massive debt, endemic overcapacity, and an economic system that channels low - cost capital into inefficient state - owned enterprises at the expense of private entrepreneurs and consumers.

Yields in the $ 14 trillion market for U.S. government debt touched record lows in 2016, driven by years of aggressive central bank intervention in the wake of the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis to keep interest rates low to stimulate the economy.

Government debt yields fell to multimonth lows, with the 10 - year yield slumping below 2.1 percent as stocks declined on global economic worries.

The government beat this projection by nearly $ 1.6 billion — by taking $ 1 billion from reserve, keeping spending levels $ 600 million less than projected, and through $ 335 million of savings from lower than anticipated interest rates on government debt.

Treasury prices rise, pushing yields lower, on Monday after solid appetite for two batches of government debt auctions see strong bidding, ahead of what's set to be a deluge of sales of government debt in 2018.

debt obligations of the U.S. government that are issued at various intervals and with various maturities; revenue from these bonds is used to raise capital and / or refund outstanding debt; since Treasury securities are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, they are generally considered to be free from credit risk and thus typically carry lower yields than other securities; the interest paid by Treasuries is exempt from state and local tax, but is subject to federal taxes and may be subject to the federal Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT); U.S. Treasury securities include Treasury bills, Treasury notes, Treasury bonds, zero - coupon bonds, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), and Treasury Auctions

Roughly $ 10 trillion worth of global government debt, in fact, now carry low to subzero yields.

Net corporate debt (corporate debt minus offshore cash and government bonds held by corporations) is actually pretty low.

Meanwhile, more colleges are facing embarrassing government and media scrutiny over their students» low graduation rates and high debt loads.

He also concludes that «raising its (the government's) deficit target back up to 1 per cent (from zero) makes more sense when there are other short - term - pain - for - long - term - gain initiatives that are needed to address more pressing objectives than lowering a debt ratio that is already the envy of the world.»

A real solution to the debt problem, in other words, may involve initially a transfer of debt onto the government balance sheet, but ultimately Beijing must then take real steps to lower debt relative to debt capacity.

In the Fall Update, the government will not only be able to show the elimination of the deficit (something no other G - 7 country has achieved) one year earlier than targeted, but also to show a declining debt ratio, rapidly approaching the government's target of 25 per cent, the lowest since the 1960s

The IMF added that if growth was lower than expected or if the Greek government failed to meet targets for running a surplus on its budget excluding interest payments, there would be «significant increases in debt and gross financing needs».

As long as this government debt is rolled over continuously at non-repressed interest rates, which will be low as nominal GDP growth drops, China can rebalance the economy without a collapse in growth.

There are so many reasons why this is wrong (to list just the most obvious, poor countries have much lower debt thresholds than rich countries, Japanese debt can not possibly be dismissed as not being a problem, and because it is almost impossible to find an economist who understands the relationship between nominal interest rates and implicit amortization, Japanese government debt has probably only been manageable to date because GDP growth close to zero has permitted interest rates close to zero) and yet inane comparisons between China's debt burden and Japan's debt burden are made all the time.

Last week in London, for example, an analyst from a research company with whose views I am usually in strong sympathy and who herself is very bearish on China's growth prospects, airily dismissed Chinese debt concerns by pointing out that Chinese government debt, even after adding back estimates of losses in the banking system, is lower than that of the Japanese government, and because the government's debt burden has not been a problem in Japan it won't be a problem in China.

Not only does this represent a decrease in internal diversification, but with interest rates near all - time lows, the return outlook for government and agency debt is muted.

In the current financial circumstances, the federal government could do more now to assist the provinces by providing low cost debt financing.

It now states that Canada will continue to have the lowest total government sector net debt - to - GDP ratio among the G - 7 countries.

The federal government has a low and declining debt burden and a sustainable fiscal structure, whereas most of the provinces and territories do not.

A lower debt target would also be problematic, since it would mean rejecting much of the policy platform on which the government got elected.

More importantly, the government would still have a low and stable debt to GDP ratio and be in an excellent position to implement a longer - term sustainable economic growth strategy.

I have 2 questions: 1) How does the recent announcement of plans to open up the Chinese financial economy to foreign firms change the equation of «control» by the Chinese government 2) How do you envision the scenario where we reach maximum debt capacity and a transition into a low growth scenario?

The job growth is fake, there's been no wage growth since 1999, inflation numbers are false, government debt is too high, corporate profits are too low, corporate profits are unsustainably high, companies aren't reinvesting their profits, companies are buying back too much stock, the Federal Reserve is propping up the market, the Federal Reserve is keeping rates artificially low, and so on.

«He doesn't want to leave any question about the independence of the Governor of the Bank of Canada, but we have a situation under the Conservative government that has allowed record household debt... and the bank is really caught between a rock and a hard place, because these high debt levels create pressure for higher interest rates, but inflation is very low.

Despite this the government has a sound fiscal structure with a low and stable debt burden.

In the late 1940s through the early 1970s, the U.S. and UK both reduced their debt burden by about 30 % to 40 % of GDP per decade by taking advantage of negative real interest rates, but there is no guarantee that government debt rates will continue to stay so low.

[303][306] In January 2012, the U.S. Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association unanimously recommended that government debt be allowed to auction even lower, at negative absolute interest rates.

While such a strategy lowers gross borrowing requirements in the medium - term, it will fuel already high inflationary pressures and increase the government's debt stock.

What this means in practice is that we have kept maturities of our investments very short, particularly for low - risk issuers such as governments and agencies, while we seek out opportunities to increase portfolio yield with what we think is well - priced corporate debt.

Lower taxes would likely lead to larger deficits, which could require the Treasury to issue more debt, increasing the supply of government bonds on the market.

Structural factors such as aging populations, poor productivity growth and high debt levels mean historically low government bond yields are likely here to stay.

The government forgives up to $ 17,500 of your federal student debt after you work at a low - income school or education service agency for five consecutive years.

In recent months, the yield on US corporate bonds, especially investment - grade securities, is a little more than 100 basis points compared to the yield on government debt, dropping within striking distance of the lows seen post the 2008 financial crisis.

The continuing low level of government bond yields has supported the search for yield that has been evident over the past couple of years, with the spread between yields on US government debt and yields on both corporate and emerging market debt remaining around historical lows over the past three months (Box B).