call for a revision of the current formula for setting rates which requires rates to be set to fully cover the cost of operating the system, the cost
of debt service for capital work and a rental payment to the City of New York, which is set at 15 % of the debt service,
Even if the path for tightening is described as ultra-slow and measured, investors will need to weigh just how much the higher costs of borrowing might adversely impact the cost
of debt servicing for corporations; that is, we may see further erosion of profitability from an earnings picture that is already flat.
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.
Carnival was originally a subsidiary
of American International Travel
Service (AITS), but in 1974, Arison bought Carnival
for $ 1, along with $ 5 million in assumed AITS
debt.
Sheffield Resources has mandated finance group Taurus to arrange a $ US200 million ($ A255 million)
debt facility
for development
of its Thunderbird mineral sands project, and also named GR Engineering
Services as its preferred contractor.
«That is particularly important given the current business climate, where keeping
debt service under control is a priority,» says David Markovchich, director
of business development
for the Authority.
In 2015, Kindred acquired Gentiva Health
Services for $ 1.8 billion, turning it into the biggest U.S. provider
of home health and hospice care, but also saddling it with
debt.
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.
Trump told his supporters that he and they, «owe Clinton a major
debt of gratitude
for her
service to the country.»
«Much
of the welfare state concept was always an illusion, one financed by lavish amounts
of debt for which present and future taxpayers will pay in the form
of higher taxes and reduced
services during their lifetimes,» writes University
of Calgary lecturer Mark Milke in a recent article.
Considering its strategic orientation
of growing through acquisition, ACT has some latitude at the rating
for periodically elevated leverage, but we believe that negative rating pressure would emerge if a transaction caused fully adjusted
debt to EBITDA to exceed 3.5 x with risky prospects
for a return to below 3.0 x. Moreover, the rating would be under pressure if increased competition caused weaker earnings, particularly from merchandise and
services, keeping
debt to EBITDA above 3x.
That is, when
debt service ratios are calculated using the discounted mortgage rates actually charged by banks (about 125 percentage points below posted rates), the average Canadian homeowner is paying just 25 % or so
of income on mortgage payments, far below the 32 % benchmark used
for mortgage - insurance qualification.
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.
And massive
debt service costs could limit the carrier's ability to maintain or raise the dividend on its stock, which is one
of the primary attractions
for investors.
«Hillary has worked very long and very hard over a long period
of time, and we owe her a major
debt of gratitude
for her
service to our country,» Trump said.
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.
A customer -
service rep named Talia Jane, who worked
for the company's food delivery arm Eat24, wrote an open letter to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelmann on Friday explaining how she could not afford to pay groceries, had stopped using her heater, spent 80 %
of her income on paying rent in San Francisco, and was «balancing all sorts
of debt and trying to pave a life
for myself that doesn't involve crying in the bathtub every week.»
Of course, often folks using these
services for side - income must pay down
debt or use the funds to cover other needs.
«It's really a fee
for using someone else's money,» explains Todd Christensen, director
of education at
Debt Reduction Services, a nonprofit debt management and credit counseling organization in Boise, Id
Debt Reduction
Services, a nonprofit
debt management and credit counseling organization in Boise, Id
debt management and credit counseling organization in Boise, Idaho.
Therefore,
Debt relief providers will typically charge a fee
for services, so be prepared to spend just a little
of money
for that expert advice and actionable steps to improve your situation!
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.
These risks and uncertainties include competition and other economic conditions including fragmentation
of the media landscape and competition from other media alternatives; changes in advertising demand, circulation levels and audience shares; the Company's ability to develop and grow its online businesses; the Company's reliance on revenue from printing and distributing third - party publications; changes in newsprint prices; macroeconomic trends and conditions; the Company's ability to adapt to technological changes; the Company's ability to realize benefits or synergies from acquisitions or divestitures or to operate its businesses effectively following acquisitions or divestitures; the Company's success in implementing expense mitigation efforts; the Company's reliance on third - party vendors
for various
services; adverse results from litigation, governmental investigations or tax - related proceedings or audits; the Company's ability to attract and retain employees; the Company's ability to satisfy pension and other postretirement employee benefit obligations; changes in accounting standards; the effect
of labor strikes, lockouts and labor negotiations; regulatory and judicial rulings; the Company's indebtedness and ability to comply with
debt covenants applicable to its
debt facilities; the Company's ability to satisfy future capital and liquidity requirements; the Company's ability to access the credit and capital markets at the times and in the amounts needed and on acceptable terms; and other events beyond the Company's control that may result in unexpected adverse operating results.
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.
And it was very easy
for them to do that without opposition, because in the beginning most
of the
debts that were owed to the palace itself — both in fees
for services the palace provided, or the temple provided (the temple was part
of the palace economy), or
for land rent by sharecroppers, or
for the provision
of water and agricultural
services to the land.
According to the Schwab Retirement Plan
Services survey, more than one - third
of millennials reported they can't save
for retirement because they're still dealing with the burden
of student loan
debt.
«Credit - card
debt is very likely going to be the most expensive
debt that you're ever going to
service,» said credit expert John Ulzheimer, who has worked
for credit bureau Equifax and FICO, creator
of the FICO credit score.
What passed
for Soviet Marxism lacked an understanding
of how economic rents and the ensuing high labor costs affected international prices, or how
debt service and capital flight affected the currency's exchange rate.
And unemployment means no pricing power
for labor, no wages to pay off
debts accrued during the bubble, a potential wage
of foreclosures and a resulting set off layoffs in the
service sector.
«Credit - card
debt is very likely going to be the most expensive
debt that you're ever going to
service,» said credit expert John Ulzheimer, who has worked
for credit bureau Equifax and FICO, creator
of the...
The market
for cod is limited, and many
of Iceland's quota licences already have been pledged to bankers
for loans, whose
debt service absorbs much
of the export revenue.
The devastating LDC
debt crisis
of the 1980s, which began in August 1982 when the Mexican government announced that it was unable to
service its obligations to foreign banks, ended only in 1990, when these loans were exchanged
for a nominal amount
of Brady bonds equal to only 65 %
of the original notional amount
of outstanding loans.
In other words, people have to pay either so much
debt or they have to have forced saving, like pension fund saving, that the economy is shrunk
for financial reasons,
for putting more and more
of its money out
of the real economy
of goods and
services into the financial sector.
There are many other ways
of allocating a significant portion
of the
debt -
servicing cost to unwilling agents in the economic equivalent
of debt forgiveness: to creditors when
debt is repudiated, to workers when wages are suppressed in order to increase net revenues
for debt servicing, to small business owners when assets are expropriated to pay down
debt, and so on.
An array
of measures is selected from the overall credit supply (or what is the same thing,
debt securities) to represent «money,» which then is correlated with changes in goods and
service prices, but not with prices
for capital assets — bonds, stocks and real estate.
I don't know, but it's raising the cost
of debt servicing more than expected
for lots
of banks and businesses that borrow in the short - term
debt market.
But even if this is all there were to
debt — and in fact in my classes at both Peking University and, previously, at Columbia University I propose to my students that one way to think
of the lability side
of the balance sheet is precisely as a series
of formulae that distribute the operating earnings
of a company (or the total production
of goods and
services of a country)-- this would still make it singularly important in understanding the functioning
of and prospects
for an economy.
In addition, the mortgage market looks set
for a particularly heavy year
of renewals in an environment where
debt -
servicing costs are already rising at the fastest pace in a decade.
Huge amounts
of money have to be laid out
for construction, tracts, and equipment, and getting enough money from ticket sales to cover the
debt servicing costs is problematic.
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.
The incurrence
of debt financing would result in
debt service obligations and the instruments governing such
debt could provide
for operating and financing covenants that would restrict our operations.
The standard proxy
for growth in
debt -
servicing capacity is GDP growth, but this is only valid in economies in which GDP growth data is a systems output that measures the underlying performance
of the economy.
Russia in fact continued to
service the
debts for a few more weeks before completely running out
of cash by February 1992.
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.
Because the amount
of bad
debt in each period is almost certainly a growing number, it must follow logically that the GDP growth number observers really want, rather than the one they have — that is, GDP growth as a systems output that can serve as a proxy
for debt -
servicing capacity — is a declining number, and perhaps even a quickly declining number.
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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!
MH: The problem
of inadequate consumer demand to fuel an economic recovery does not lie with the cost
of labor so much as with the fact that it is now normal
for families to pay a quarter or even a third
of their income
for debt service.
While this reduces the reported amount
of outstanding
debt, if the concern is the ability
of borrowers to generate the returns needed to
service the
debt that funded these projects, converting them into equity does not reduce the riskiness
of the banking system, nor does it reduce net indebtedness
for the country overall.
The proximate cause
of death
for virtually every defaulting junk bond is a liquidity crisis occasioned by either an inability to generate enough cash to
service debt, or an inability to refinance maturing
debt.
What's more, almost 2 in 5 parents (19 percent) surveyed said they were unaware
of Public
Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), which can help eliminate
debt for parents and students who hold government jobs or work
for certain nonprofits.