Sentences with phrase «of sovereign debt»

The size of a state, particularly in this age of sovereign debt crises, is a key indicator for investors.

The Spanish financial sector will benefit from a rating upgrade of the sovereign debt which could lead to a credit upgrade of the banks as well.

Our global / international active fixed income strategies take advantage not only of sovereign debt, but the increasingly robust global corporate bond market, utilizing our expertise in corporate bond analysis.

The measurement of sovereign debt depends on who is doing the measurement and why they are doing it.

This time, it was the potential worthless nature of sovereign debt rather than sovereign currency.

More generally, the European Union (EU) is perceived by many to be in crisis, buffeted by the twin threats of sovereign debt default...

Steve Ketchum, executive director of Sound Point, told Bloomberg that in Puerto Rico, «there are no obvious great economic difficult situations... We are comparing Puerto Rico with some of the worst situations of sovereign debt in history and it simply does not make sense to us, especially since Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States.»

But while all that red ink set up the necessary conditions, it took the threat of a sovereign debt crisis and the rise of small - c conservatism to generate what John Monks, general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, has described as a «stampede towards austerity.»

And lastly, we should also remember that the ECB is the proud owner of close to $ 250 billion worth of sovereign debt from troubled Eurozone countries, mainly Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain, which it acquired through its Securities Market Program (SMP).

Following years of economic troubles in the wake of the sovereign debt crisis of in 2011, Portugal, Spain and Italy have managed to turnaround their economies.

After sending a copy of your analysis of the S & P downgrade of the sovereign debt of the U.S. to 5 key contacts, I'm going to urge them to read your work on Clorox, as well.

In the United States, Congress has largely favoured stimulus over austerity (new House Speaker John Boehner vowed to change this in his maiden speech), but a growing number of cash - strapped states and cities is stoking the same kind of sovereign debt fears that are rippling through Europe.

Global monetary policy remains broadly accommodative — and in some areas more and more so — propelling equity markets ever higher and leaving a record amount of sovereign debt around the world (almost US$ 12 trillion by midyear) yielding at or below zero (source: Fitch Ratings, as of 6/29/2016).

Italian banks lowered their holdings of sovereign debt by the most on record in June, according to Jefferies.

Advised a national government department in relation to the duties of an insurer when negotiating the settlement of an insured debt with a third party, in the context of renegotiations of sovereign debt.

If all goes well in the European Union, sensible monetary and fiscal policies should eventually reduce global anxieties related to the stability of sovereign debt among certain EU nations.

James Dean, an economist at Simon Fraser University who has studied sovereign - debt crises in Latin America, Asia and Europe over four decades, says one of the great paradoxes of sovereign debt is that countries can manage heavy burdens for a long time.

More recently it was Greece and its version of the sovereign debt dilemma.

If you've been keeping up with Lewis's Vanity Fair travelogues from the front lines of the sovereign debt crisis, filed from Iceland to California, then you've read practically all the writing this book collects.

The conversation at the B20 will likely touch on the consequences of sovereign debt, but nobody is sure what will result from the gathering.

But the two senators who pushed the Volcker rule through Congress did specifically argue that only U.S. debt should be exempted because other forms of sovereign debt could be too risky.

That's also making Austrian bond yields spike, ushering in a new phase of the sovereign debt crisis from the East.

As the next chart shows, QE has bloated central banks» balance sheets so much that they now hold the equivalent of 33 percent of all sovereign debt worldwide, up from roughly 15 percent pre-crisis.

In May of 2008, a team of sovereign debt analysts at Moody's had to decide whether to downgrade the country's sovereign long - term debt from Aaa to Aa1 or lower.

Koester says more companies are starting to understand how currency movements affect their business, probably as a result of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe and recent volatility in the FX markets.

While developed markets flounder in a post-crisis quagmire of sovereign debt, developing markets are enjoying much better times — and private equity investors have taken note.

Geithner pressed the ECB and European Governments to increase the 440 billion EURO EFSF rescue fund by utilizing leverage in its buying of sovereign debt.

Having hoovered up a third of all JGBs in issue, it may soon run short of sovereign debt to buy.

Abandoning that commitment would plunge Britain into the financial whirlpool of a sovereign debt crisis, at the cost of many thousands of jobs.

The German constitutional court is only too aware the ECB has driven a coach and horses through not only the German constitution but the European Union's own rules on the purchase of sovereign debt.

Dr Frank Strobel, Senior Lecturer in Economics, said: «We have developed a new type of «early warning system» that will provide more accurate predictions of sovereign debt crises and how long they are likely to last.

Birmingham's development takes account of the causes and associated indicators of sovereign debt crises varying between different countries and regions.

An early warning system based on the Birmingham model can be recommended to policymakers in those regions — particularly when they value avoiding negative market sentiments and damage to international reputation, which might possibly be triggered by false signals of sovereign debt problems.

As for the ETFs of sovereign debt, you can't really separate the risk in the Euro zone between the PIIGS and your Denmark & Germany.

One of the regular features of sovereign debt crises, and one amply revealed in Beth Simmons book on the 1930s crisis in Europe, Who Adjusts?

The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research recently published a study that indicated that «by all relevant debt indicators, the U.S. fiscal scenario will soon approximate the economic scenario for countries on the verge of a sovereign debt default.»

The amount of sovereign debt with negative yields has ballooned to more than ten trillion dollars in notional value, with central banks in Europe and Japan implementing explicit negative interest...

First, Exhibit 2 shows the historical behavior of the total percentage of sovereign debt held outside of Mexico.

btw The notion, particularly in the US media, that the EUR will suddenly collapse because of the sovereign debt crisis is rubbish!

At a time when America's economy is expanding in the low single digits, Japan's economy is struggling and much of Europe is still buried under a mountain of sovereign debt, these markets hold more appeal than ever.