Sentences with phrase «sovereign debt which»

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.

In an interview with IMF advisor Robert Shapiro, the bailout expert has pretty much said what, once again, is on everyone's mind: «If they can not address [the financial crisis] in a credible way I believe within perhaps 2 to 3 weeks we will have a meltdown in sovereign debt which will produce a meltdown across the European banking system.

«If they can not address [the financial crisis] in a credible way I believe within perhaps 2 to 3 weeks we will have a meltdown in sovereign debt which will produce a meltdown across the European banking system.

Not exact matches

Against the backdrop of current macroeconomic trends — European sovereign debt, the continued monetization of U.S. obligations, the prospect of a hard landing in China — another phenomenon is quietly playing out here in Canada: a continued strengthening of merger - and - acquisition activity in our mining sector, which could boost what are now severely compressed equity valuations.

A key factor that could turn the tide for sovereign debt yields is the Bank of Japan, which meets Tuesday and Wednesday, and may decide to stop buying longer - duration bonds, according to reports.

In addition to a weaker euro, which helps fuel its export - oriented economy, the cost of financing its sovereign debt relative to its existing debt continues to fall while the smaller countries struggle with rising financing costs.

And how Ireland's bad bank debt was turned into sovereign debt - which tripled its debt to GDP ratio in just three years.

«Before Brexit, there was Grexit and the European sovereign debt crisis, Scotland's independence referendum, and the U.S. legislative gridlock over its debt ceiling in 2011, which threatened to, out of whole cloth, create a default in the global benchmark risk - free asset,» Zezas adds.

Before Brexit, there was Grexit and the European sovereign debt crisis, Scotland's independence referendum, and the U.S. legislative gridlock over its debt ceiling in 2011, which threatened to, out of whole cloth, create a default in the global benchmark risk - free asset.

Among the factors which may have contributed to this rise were the European sovereign - debt crisis — particularly the 2012 — 2013 Cypriot financial crisis — statements by FinCEN improving the currency's legal standing and rising media and Internet interest.

Speaking of which, we have seen time and time again we can not trust banks: The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, the 2001 Dotcom Bubble and most recently, as mentioned above, the 2008 Subprime Mortgage Crisis which directly led to the 2010 European Sovereign Debt Crisis.

Developments this year could make a difference, including the rising oil price which will demotivate sovereigns from entering debt markets.

The European Central Bank, in addition to buying member country sovereign - issued debt is now buying corporate bonds, some of which are non-investment grade.

Still, we've observed diminishing returns from the Fed's interventions, there is no political tolerance for the Fed to intervene in securities involving any credit risk that would be borne by U.S. citizens (purchasing European sovereign debt, for example), and the yield on the 10 - year Treasury bond is already down to 1.7 %, which is far below where it stood when prior interventions were initiated.

Fast forward to today, and the debt has ballooned to roughly $ 20 trillion (107 % of GDP), which is equal to 31.8 % of the world's sovereign debt nominally.

The most popular bond ETFs available are still the one - stop - shop total - market blends, which package sovereign, corporate and municipal debt together.

The group — which includes Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia, the anti-immigration Northern League and the far - right Brothers of Italy party — vowed to eliminate the «damaging effects» of a landmark 2011 pension reform named after then Welfare Minister Elsa Fornero and passed at the peak of Italy's sovereign debt crisis.

Jakarta's 38.9 % increase was driven by a substantial recovery in domestic demand in the wake of Indonesian sovereign debt's return to investment - grade status, which energized leveraged investment initiatives and drove up demand for prime office space across the capital.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

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).

I was a late convert to the idea that we needed to do something quickly... I was persuaded in the few days surrounding the change of government because that's when the sovereign debt crisis was at its peak... Certainly under the conditions under which we embarked on the election there was no immediate sense of crisis that crisis hit us around election time and we had to respond to it... I changed my mind in the days shortly after the election because that was when the sovereign debt crisis his Europe.

Existing prediction systems failed to forecast the global crash of 2008, which led to several governments bailing out their banks and European nations, such as Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Spain, being plunged into a sovereign debt crisis.

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.

Second thing is that the craziness where nobody thought there was any risk, so that for example in 2007 you could buy credit default swaps on Dubai sovereign debt, the riskiest region in the world dependent on the most unstable commodity in the world, which is oil, for four basis points.

Its instability, pitiful economic governance, corruption and cronyism — all of which contributed to its spectacular sovereign debt crisis — prove that the country is not quite ready for the big leagues.

Under J.R.'s management, S&P Dow Jones Indices has launched a global suite of fixed income indices, which includes a focus on transparency for municipal, corporate, and high - yield bonds, senior loans, and sovereign debt.

Still, we've observed diminishing returns from the Fed's interventions, there is no political tolerance for the Fed to intervene in securities involving any credit risk that would be borne by U.S. citizens (purchasing European sovereign debt, for example), and the yield on the 10 - year Treasury bond is already down to 1.7 %, which is far below where it stood when prior interventions were initiated.

After the interest rate decision which showed now change in interest rate, the short end of the UK sovereign debt curve sold off.

The S&P Global Developed Aggregate Ex-Collateralized Bond Index (USD), which seeks to track the performance of investment - grade debt issued by sovereign, quasi-sovereign, foreign government, and corporate entities in developed countries, delivered a total return of 7.64 % in 2017.

While the presence of sovereign wealth funds in the private debt space has increased substantially, allocations have actually declined — capital raised for private debt funds closed on 2016 stood at $ 94 billion — that's down from $ 98 billion in 2015 (which is still four times as much as was raised in 2009).

Municipal issuers have a key role to play in terms of: • Low - carbon technologies • Pollution control • Climate adaptation, such as disaster prevention and recovery We will seek to avoid purchasing the relatively few government - issued bonds that are explicitly issued to finance the development of projects, such as nuclear power plants or casinos, which are fundamentally misaligned with our investment objectives Sovereign Debt National governments around the world issue bonds (debt) to finance a wide variety of public goods including education, infrastructure, national defense, the judiciary and social welfDebt National governments around the world issue bonds (debt) to finance a wide variety of public goods including education, infrastructure, national defense, the judiciary and social welfdebt) to finance a wide variety of public goods including education, infrastructure, national defense, the judiciary and social welfare.

This ETF tracks the Barclays EM Local Currency Government Diversified Index which is a fixed - rate local currency sovereign debt of emerging market countries.

The stability of the issuing government can be provided by the country's sovereign credit ratings which help investors weigh risks when assessing sovereign debt investments.

Fallen angel bonds, which can be corporate, municipal or sovereign debt, have been downgraded by a rating service such as Standard & Poor's, Fitch, or Moody's Investors Service.

In order to bolster the economy, which has provided real improvements in life for many low skilled Chinese workers, the Chinese government has used its surplus to buy foreign sovereign debt (i.e. American treasury bills) and kept taxes set at relatively low levels.

(at 129) He elaborates on the objectives of the OMT programme as monetary policy measures, which trigger the transmission mechanism and have an impact on interest rates on government bonds of specific countries, and states that all these objectives were, with regard to the deterioration of the sovereign debt market for several states in summer 2012 legitimate.

In fighting the sovereign debt crisis and preventing further crises, the aim of the Fiscal Compact is not only respecting, but even furthering the interests of the non-participating Member States, which through to the interconnection of financial markets are heavily influenced by crises as well.

Moreover, contagion effects from the sovereign debt crisis in the euro zone, which appears to be slipping into recession, are expected to remain as a primary risk to growth in 2012.