Sentences with phrase «lower debts in»

Residents have lower debts in part because of higher - than - average bankruptcy rates.

Philippine households have among the lowest debt in Asia, solidifying a «long runway» for continued economic growth in the outperforming ASEAN nation, a...

We have one of the lowest debts in the EPL, rising revenue streams, a stadium in development that with provide even more funds..

The lower your debt in relation to the amount of credit available to you, the higher your credit score will become.

The reason there's low debt in Iowa is because there's nothing worth buying in Iowa!

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In its latest Annual Report, it argued that «even if inflation does not rise, keeping interest rates too low for long could raise financial stability and macroeconomic risks further down the road, as debt continues to pile up and risk - taking in financial markets gathers steam.&raquIn its latest Annual Report, it argued that «even if inflation does not rise, keeping interest rates too low for long could raise financial stability and macroeconomic risks further down the road, as debt continues to pile up and risk - taking in financial markets gathers steam.&raquin financial markets gathers steam.»

He points to high levels of global debt, low liquidity in markets, political events affecting trade and structural imbalances in some emerging economies.

«It's always hard to know exactly where to put your money these days given how rates and spreads are so low, but on a relative basis we still think there's value in EM debt,» Matt Tucker, head of the iShares fixed income strategy team, said this week during a panel discussion at the Morningstar ETF Conference in Chicago.

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.

He included original research that suggests a looser fiscal policy after 2010 may have resulted in a lower level of household debt today.

In order to come up with 10 names, we included six stocks with debt ratings as low as BBB +, which is still investment grade, albeit at the lower end of the scale.

The study involving about 1000 Facebook users in the US found that those who spent relatively more time on Facebook and had a strong network on social media were more likely to have lower credit scores and more credit card debt compared to those who used it less and had a comparatively weaker network.

As anyone who's dodged calls from collections agents knows, debt creates stress, which spawns all sorts of nasty offshoots in the workplace: lowered productivity, higher absenteeism, toxic morale.

A lot of credit card debt, of course, has in the last few years been shifted over to lower - interest lines of credit, usually unsecured.

• Even though Canadians have a lot of mortgage debt, national mortgage - in - arrears numbers remain very low, at less than half of one per cent.

Household debt as a percentage of disposable income was was 163.3 % in the first quarter, Statistics Canada reported last week — only marginally lower than the record 163.9 % ratio the agency calculated for the fourth quarter.

• Credit card delinquency rates remain low, at only 0.87 per cent of total outstanding balances as of April 2016, while credit card debt only makes up five per cent of total household debt in Canada.

A closer look at Market Basket's operations under Arthur T. Demoulas suggests that its industry - beating 7.2 percent operating margins in 2012, cited by the Boston Business Journal, derive from six secrets: long - term employee relationships, low overhead, bulk purchasing, low prices, no debt and treating employees and customers like family.

The time spent in the work force before launching Swift helped Harris refinance his loans to a lower interest rate through SoFi, one of a few new marketplace lenders focusing on student - loan debt.

According to the Bank, corporate Canada's overall debt - to - equity ratio — under 0.9, down from 1.5 in the mid-1990s — is at a historic low, the result of two decades of private - sector deleveraging.

One of my constant points on this blog for the last several years has been that households» refinancing of their mortgage debt at lower and lower rates has put more money in their pockets for spending and for paying down debt.

But low interest rates, at least in Canada, have pushed household debt to such vertiginous levels that officials like Carney know they shouldn't be counting on consumer spending to drive the recovery — ergo, the call for more corporate investment.

Pretty much from his first statements as governor in 2013 — that's about $ 100,000 ago in real estate appreciation terms — through to last week when the bank released its latest financial system review, Poloz has walked a tightrope between admitting that elevated house prices and debt levels pose a risk to the economy, and assuring Canadians that the likelihood of a crash is actually pretty low.

Politicians ask the public to accept sacrifice (new taxes, new regulations) in exchange for a happy conclusion (lower public debt, a clean environment).

The more complex debt market has worked wonders in the past few years allowing somewhat riskier companies like Valeant amass more debt, at lower rates, than they would have been able to past.

The converse applies in down turns, cut production to maintain price value and cut costs and improve efficiencies, Additionally use low cost debt to buy assets for future development with debt to be repaid in booms.

In the short - term, however, this increased leverage may actually be bullish for junk bonds, corporate bonds, emerging market debt and mortgage - backed securities as it brings higher prices and lower yields, he said.

Even though the dollar gets a bounce from the safety trade, especially when investors are running from European default, the trend in the dollar is lower as we dig ourselves deeper into debt.

«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.

Citing MDC's debt and the fact it has held the company to relatively low, if any overall profit despite leaps and bounds in revenue growth, Willott casts doubt on MDC's ability to turn industry awards and its agencies» creative prowess into profitability.

On the other hand, leaving the interest rate low encourages the kind of borrowing and spending that has produced record - high levels of consumer debt in Canada and pushed housing prices into the stratosphere.

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.

That should ensure that borrowing costs will remain low, but in the longer - run trade deficits and shrinking current account surpluses could threaten Japan's ability to finance a debt pile that is twice the size of its economy, the highest ratio in the developed world.

«The average medical debt in Massachusetts in 2013 was relatively low at just $ 3,041 (6 percent of total unsecured debt) compared to $ 8,594 (20 percent of total unsecured debt) nationwide,» Austin writes in his 2014 study, portions of which were published in the Maine Law Review.

While his income is low — $ 18,000 in 2011 — so is his debt: he has no student loans and only about $ 500 on a credit card.

Take that funding away and the market settles back into something more closely aligned with the underlying reality — the one of high unemployment / underemployment, high oil prices, stagnant middle - and lower - class incomes, unprecedented wealth concentration in the upper class, demolished savers, under - investment in capital, and an ongoing transition to a low - wage service economy hard - pressed to service debt.

Concurrent with this orgy of public debt, the State encourages massive expansion of private credit via fractional lending, low bank reserves, and other forms of leverage, in a vain attempt to stimulate demand in an economy burdened with overcapacity, declining employment, marginal return on capital and saturated markets.

But with low - as - you - can - go - growth, mounds of debt, throngs of unemployed youth and a rising tide of Euroskepticism, the European Union, to put it kindly, is still in a tough spot.

Turner: One of the things that people in the industry often talk about when it comes to money management is this barbell, where as you said you have low - cost, passive index tracking funds and at the other end you have higher fees, higher active share, things like private debt which you mentioned, and it's those in the middle that are charging higher fees for something that looks quite a lot like beta that are really going to struggle.

In a wide - ranging note on the sector, RBC says the company has one of the lowest net debt — to — trailing cash flow levels in its coverage grouIn a wide - ranging note on the sector, RBC says the company has one of the lowest net debt — to — trailing cash flow levels in its coverage grouin its coverage group.

They rank above average in delinquency rates on all types of debt and rank in the top 10 for lowest rates of auto loan delinquency and credit - card delinquency.»

The capital also has the lowest percent of debt in the country tied up in auto loans (3.35 percent), probably due to the accessible public transportation available in the area.

Net debt as a share of GDP is low (only Saskatchewan and Alberta's are lower), and B.C. has a shot at balancing the budget in 2013 - 14 — along with Saskatchewan, Quebec, and Nova Scotia.

«International research has found that highly indebted households cut back their spending to a greater degree in response to declining house prices than those with lower debt levels,» he said in a letter to the House finance committee this month.

In March 2018, SES secured an eight - year EUR 500 million Euro Bond at a low annual coupon of 1.625 % which allows SES to refinance an upcoming debt maturity at more favourable terms.

Drummond suggests that no matter how the Americans deal with the debt, it could throw Canada into a double - dip recession: «It could be a lose - lose, because if they deal with it in a draconian fashion, then they'll kill off the recovery, but if they don't deal with it at all, they're going to see lower U.S. growth, drive down the U.S. dollar, raise the bond premiums — and that would be a disaster for Canada.»

The following tips will help you lower your debt and look forward to getting in the green.

Look for this to continue in 2016, as the lowest unemployment rate in 15 years means employers will be fighting for recent, debt - strapped graduates.

After gaining widespread plaudits for his leading role in the IMF's management of Europe's debt troubles, speculation about the political future of the former French finance minister has risen to a low boil in recent months.