In the first row, the security is
paying its bondholders 7 3/4 % interest and is due to mature Feb, 2001.
I don't think they will stop
paying bondholders, but the second order effects of closing down large portions of the government are uncertain.
The key thing about service contract bonds is that the State's commitment to pay for them is not legally binding, and the MTA and transit riders are ultimately responsible for
paying bondholders if the State reneges on its commitment.
1MDB has a $ 3 billion bond outstanding that does not mature until 2023 but the fund has a strong incentive to pay this back sooner rather than later — even if it means
paying bondholders a premium.
The U.S. would have to skip
paying bondholders or trim overall spending by 4 % in order to match revenues and outlays.
Of the three big rating agencies, Moody's seems the most chilled out: In a widely circulated memo dated Oct. 7, it said the U.S. would keep its AAA rating as long as
it pays bondholders.
According to Griesa (uniquely), this means that if any creditor or vulture fund refuses to participate in a debt writedown, no such agreement can be reached and the sovereign government can not
pay any bondholders anywhere in the world, regardless of what foreign jurisdiction the bonds were issued under.
Geithner and Obama lobbied the IMF and ECB shamelessly to bail out Greece, simply so that it could
pay bondholders, because U.S. banks had issued credit default insurance (CDS) against Greek bonds and were on the hook for a big loss if a default occurred.
Also, US President Obama and Treasury Secretary Geithner also told Angela Merkel that US banks had made big bets — derivative gambles — that Greece would
pay its bondholders, and threatened to hurt European banks if they did not pressure the IMF to bail out Greece.
Greece should learn from America's folly and refuse to borrow from the ECB to
pay bondholders on debts that have been run up by not taxing wealth, especially that of the FIRE sector.
These contracts are now under attack — to
pay bondholders.
And so you have a system where not only are the banks allocating credit in the economy, but it's the corporate sector itself, the industrial sector, is treating companies, industrial companies, as if the purpose was to squeeze out a financial surplus to
pay bondholders and stockholders.
For example, a company that issues a bond generally must periodically
pay bondholders interest, but doesn't repay the principal until the bond is redeemed.
The bondholder loans the issuer money and the issuer promises to
pay the bondholder interest at a specified rate on the loan for a specified period of time and then to repay the loan at expiration.
The advantage for the investor is that companies are required to
pay bondholders first, before short - term creditors, in times of financial difficulty.
On Friday, August 1st, ISDA ruled Argentina's failure to
pay bondholders a «credit event».
The issuer is obligated to
pay the bondholder a specified amount, usually at specific intervals (interest payments) and to repay the principal amount when the bond matures.
This is the amount the company will
pay the bondholder at the end of the term of the bond.
Credit risk: if the issuer runs into financial difficulty or declares bankruptcy, it could default on its obligation to
pay the bondholders.
The contract involved an exchange of floating and fixed rates that gave Italy advantages in how
it paid bondholders.
Seems like your question is «can a president threaten to not
pay bondholders?»
Bond: Evidence of debt in which the issuer promises to
pay bondholders a specified amount of interest and to repay the principal at maturity.
Not exact matches
Convertible bonds are securities that
pay interest, but give the
bondholders the right to convert them to equity shares; they're basically a way to bet on the growth potential of a company without taking the risk of buying common shares.
Some of that cushion is needed to
pay interest to
bondholders, however, because customers on installment plans don't
pay anything extra beyond the price of a phone.
A 1991 feature in Spy magazine summed him up with the headline, «How to Fool All of the People, All of the Time: How Donald Trump Fooled the Media, Used the Media to Fool the Banks, Used the Banks to Fool the
Bondholders, and Used the
Bondholders to
Pay for the Yachts and Mansions and Mistresses.»
I remain intrigued by the possibility of the euro
bondholders getting
paid.
7 So the exchange
bondholders who have euro - denominated bonds may be able to convince courts in Europe to order that they get
paid — and those orders might be effective, since they would be entirely outside of U.S. jurisdiction.
But there's a pretty good argument that payments on Argentina's euro - denominated bonds never flow through the judge's jurisdiction: Argentina gives the money to a bank in Buenos Aires, which transfers it to a bank in Frankfurt, which holds it in the name of a bank in Brussels, which transfers it to a London nominee for Belgian and Luxembourg clearinghouses, which
pays it to
bondholders.
If you were a holdout
bondholder and you thought «well but Argentina can't just never
pay us or anyone else,» you have to be re-evaluating that theory.
The number one punch against the Ukraine by the IMF was to impose austerity on the pretense (its junk economics) that Ukraine could
pay its foreign
bondholders with income taxed out of its domestic economy.
IMF loans are made mainly to enable governments to
pay foreign
bondholders and bankers, not spend on social programs or domestic economic recovery.
Most was
paid to French and German banks, along with other European
bondholders.
Then, President Obama went to the Group of Twenty meeting, after Tim Geithner, the Treasury Secretary, had been on the phone with Europe, and said that if Greece didn't
pay the French and German
bondholders, the American banks had made huge bets and would go under — and so would big European banks who were counterparties.
They have a debt to the
bondholders and they do
pay that.
The money is being provided by other governments (mainly the German Treasury, cutting back its domestic spending) into a kind of escrow account for the Greek government to
pay foreign
bondholders who bought up these securities at plunging prices over the past few weeks.
The agreement comes weeks after Argentina agreed to
pay more than $ 3 billion to other holdouts, including 50,000 Italian
bondholders.
More and more draconian austerity measures are used to
pay banks and
bondholders until these measures reach an intolerable and unsustainable level.
Corporate raiders
pay their high - interest
bondholders, while financial managers also are using this ebitda for stock buy - backs to increase share prices (and hence the value of their stock options).
To what extent should a country impose austerity and even depression on itself — more than a great recession, an entire lost decade on itself — simply to
pay interest to
bondholders who've been financing a fiscal system that hasn't really taxed the rich in Greece?
By «clean exit» the EU means that Greece must sell off enough of its assets to
pay the ECB for the money it used to bail out bad loans of French and German banks and
bondholders who financed tax evasion and capital flight to Switzerland and elsewhere for over 25 years.
• Shareholders are
paid after
bondholders.
The sharpest declines in private - sector employment have occurred in the «high - tech» industries whose balance sheets have become so debt - ridden that they have been obliged to cut back their investment in order to use what revenues they have to
pay their bankers and
bondholders.
Geithner and Obama warned that if Greek
bondholders were not
paid in full, some giant U.S. banks would lose heavily on the default insurance contracts and derivatives they had written, and their losses could spread «contagion» to Europe.
Because
bondholders receive a fixed interest rate and get
paid before stockholders, bonds are safer investments than stocks.
Investors holding floating - rate loans are considered preferred creditors relative to the issuer's other obligations: If the issuer defaults, loanholders will be
paid before other investors, including
bondholders.
Strauss - Kahn notoriously overrode his staff when they urged the IMF not to capitulate to ECB demands to
pay French, German and other private
bondholders with Troika bailout loans for which they made Greek taxpayers liable.
Does that mean
bondholders can expect to be
paid back roughly 60 cents on every dollar of Puerto Rico debt owned?
If there is no money to
pay, foreign
bondholders will suffer — as long as Greece puts its own economy first.
But it's easy to imagine a scenario in which banks based in the mainland are told it's illegal to participate in processing payments of salaries for Puerto Rico's police officers because Puerto Rico's
bondholders have not yet been
paid.
In practice, the IMF simply advances however much a government needs to bail out its bankers and
bondholders, pretending that more austerity enhances the ability to
pay, not worsen it.