Sentences with phrase «on government debt»
Regardless what returns are added on top, if the rate on government debt changes, so too will the rate for other securities.
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There could be defaults on government debt or considerably higher taxes.
The market's focus on government debt supply comes as the Treasury auctions $ 96 billion in notes this week and $ 274 billion in short - term bills.
But monetarist philosophy focuses almost exclusively on government debt.
He has produced a deep treatise on government debt, served as chairman of a world - spanning regulatory body, run Italy's central bank (while remaining coolly removed from the scandals and fracases of Italian politics) and made a pile of money working at Goldman Sachs — all without being pigeonholed as an academic, regulator or investment banker.
While Hansson said any purchase program should focus on corporate bonds, the people at the staff presentation said the seminar centered on government debt.
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.
They hold credit default swaps on the government debt of countries they have investments in (S. Korea).
Much of the focus on government debt over the past few years has revolved around the federal government.
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.
Interest rates on government debt were, therefore, deregulated in the late 1970s and early 1980s, as the authorities moved to a tender system for issuing government securities.
Interest rates on government debt, too, were set by the authorities, and there were «captive market» arrangements under which banks and other institutions were required to hold minimum amounts of government debt.
Once bank interest rates were free to move, it became increasingly untenable to maintain managed rates on government debt.
(For the record - interest on government debt is now # 43 billion a year - which is more than our total defence spending of # 40 billion and nearly twice our transport spending of # 22 billion).
Furthermore, having a student loan default prevents you from getting an FHA, VA, or USDA loan, because if you default on government debt, it makes you ineligible to receive another government backed loan.
«Diminishing confidence on the part of investors that deficits will be brought under control would likely lead to sharply rising interest rates on government debt, and, potentially, to broader financial turmoil.»