The new handbook explains how mortgage underwriters should handle borrowers who have a combination of (A) relatively low credit scores, and (B)
relatively high debt ratios.
Not exact matches
who have thus far shown a willingness to buy more despite Japan's
relatively high debt - to - GDP
ratio.
The total government
debt - to - GDP
ratio of 65 % should not pose fiscal stability problems given India's
relatively high growth rate.
Even if we judge that the incidence of this extreme reaction will still be
relatively low, are there other forms of behaviour which are likely to have changed as a result of the
higher debt - servicing
ratio and
higher gearing among indebted households?
The
ratio of your
debt to income must be
relatively low to get a well - financed mortgage without prohibitively
high interest rates.
While Alt - A borrowers typically have credit scores of at least 700 — well above the cutoff for subprime loans — these loans tend to allow
relatively low down payments,
higher loan - to - value
ratios and more flexibility when it comes to the borrower's
debt - to - income
ratio.
A 2014 Brookings paper notes that credit scores for young households without student
debt are
higher than indebted households — a
relatively new phenomenon over the past decade.37 And a 2012 study from Young Invincibles estimated that the typical single student borrower now has a
debt - to - income
ratio that would prohibit him or her from qualifying for a garden - variety home mortgage.38
Those periodic special dividends are feasible because of the firm's immaculate balance sheet, which has almost no
debt,
relatively high cash levels (relative to the size of the company and its acquisitions), and a
high current
ratio (i.e. the company's short - term assets cover its short - term liabilities by more than three-fold, thus protecting it from unexpected negative financial strains, such as during recessions when demand from restaurants can lead to declining sales, earnings, and cash flow).