Sentences with phrase «where debt levels»

In times like ours where debt levels are high, I would rather CMHC have strong profitability than not.

We need a new paradigm where debt levels are an important factor in economic decisions.

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Staley told CNBC that given the high level of debt across the world, in particular among emerging markets where dollar - denominated debt has grown dramatically, many economies could be at risk if there were sudden changes in financial conditions.

As for Fed easings, I continue to doubt the effectiveness of easy monetary policy in an environment where problem debt levels are unusually high and capital spending is retrenching.

First, make sure in budget planning that the debt level averages around 30 per cent of GDP (roughly where it is now) over the next four years.

Obviously this is no easy task in China, where both the banks and the informal banking system have done a great job in recent years of hiding loan growth and keeping formal debt levels from looking to risky.

Off course, there are some situations where it makes sense to take on a reasonable level of debt.

Household debt levels relative to incomes are now well above where they were in the U.S. at the peak of that country's housing bubble.

Low oil prices have taken their toll on an already weak Canadian economy, where household debt levels are at record highs and business investment continues to lag.

Nonetheless, Canadians trying to imagine how a broad economic downturn could play out should pay attention to what's happening on the Prairies, where high house prices, soaring personal debt levels and an unexpected wave of job losses proved to be a toxic mix.

This puts central banks in a position where they will have attempt to control interest rates not by discounting lending, but by buying debt from the government directly, so that markets don't price the new issuance at a level that would destroy the nation's ability to service a debt load that is growing larger all the time.

These portfolios primarily invest in U.S. high - income debt securities where at least 65 % or more of bond assets are not rated or are rated by a major agency such as Standard & Poor's or Moody's at the level of BB (considered speculative for taxable bonds) and below.

In U.S. families where the head of household is 75 or older, the level of debt has increased nearly 60 % from 31.2 % in 2007 to 49.8 % in 2016, according to EBRI.

When the debt levels again reach the point where we have another recession, what is going to be the fallback this time, other than more debt?

Ahead of the next congress of the Chinese communist party in October, where President Xi Jinping will unveil his new leadership team, there have been indications that Chinese policymakers have increasingly shifted their emphasis away from potentially disruptive reforms aimed at reducing excessive debt levels, particularly among local governments, and toward stabilizing the level of economic growth.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

Farmers and analysts have expressed concern about the level of debt, but Mr Helou said the implied gearing remains below where Fonterra got in its growth phase.

In a new report, the aid charity says the practice of double - counting, where rich countries count debt cancellation in their aid budgets, continues and is hiding the real level of aid.

Delaware (where my daughter just moved) is right, Secretary DeVos should review this guidance letter, and until the federal government gets its act together on secondary education (which it appears may never happen), families should opt out of state schools subject to federal dictates, opting in, instead, to learning institutions that embed preparation for exams at a pre-university level that can lead to placement advanced in future course sequences: these advanced level subjects should be embedded within the balanced curriculum that an international baccalaureate education represents, in contrast to the narrow extension of elementary school that DC bureaucrats remain focused on, as if time had not run out on the Obama administration and its failed efforts to improve the lives of American youth, now mired in debt that it encouraged in pursuit of a «North Star» goal that led the United States astray.

Better it would be if the Fed, which is the main blower of bubbles through easy monetary policy, would pull back on policy when aggregate levels of debt in the economy get above 200 % of GDP, or, would allow us to go through recessions where there is significant pain, and liquidation of bad investments.

Credit card debt delinquency is sky rocketing to new levels with high unemployment continuing to sweep through the country, where debt relief is needed more than ever.

Impact lessens over time to where a spotless post-foreclosure credit history and low debt level can deliver a score in the 700 + score range within about 4 - 5 years.

You have three ways to go about shifting and reducing your debt to where, with a good dose of persistence and patience, you should soon begin to see your score moving steadily upward toward the refi - qualifying level:

After two failures due to high debt levels (current and the 1930s), we should learn that high levels of debt lead to economic failure, and move to a system where interest in not tax - deductible, but dividends are.

The takeaway: Even a high level of student debt can be more easily tackled by a well - prepared graduate who settles in an area where opportunities abound.

States where residents carry the lowest levels of student debt, on the other hand, have some of the highest delinquency rates.

The intention of the law is to not place undue burden on our country's college graduates, especially in economic times where personal debts are at a very high level; it is sound in principle.

• Unlike in the U.S., underwriting standards for qualifying mortgage borrowers in Canada have been maintained at prudent levels resulting in mortgage borrowers here being much more creditworthy; • Canadian mortgage lenders never offered low initial «teaser» rate mortgages that led to most of the difficulties for mortgage borrowers in the U.S.; • Most mortgages in Canada are held by their original lender, not packaged and sold to third parties as is typical in the U.S., and consequently, Canadian mortgage lenders have a vested interest in ensuring that their mortgage borrowers are creditworthy and not likely to default; • Only 0.3 % of Canadian mortgages are in arrears versus 4.5 % in the U.S. and what even before the start of the U.S. housing meltdown two years ago was 2 %; • Canadians tend to pay down their mortgage faster than in the U.S. where mortgage interest is deductible from taxes, which encourages U.S. homeowners to take equity out of their homes to finance other spending, a difference that is reflected in the fact that in Canada mortgage debt accounts for just over 30 % of the value of homes, compared with 55 % in the U.S.

In short, lenders are allowing lower credit scores and higher levels of debt, where mortgage borrowers are concerned.

This cycle will turn when the cash flow yield of assets reaches levels people can make money on in the worst environments; where equity funds new projects with no debt, and the profit is obvious.

In a country where consumers have grown accustomed to low rates, and where households are burdened with record levels of debt relative to income, this kind of change is worth noting.

Debt levels of financial companies, consumers and our Government have gotten to levels where repayment of debts in full is difficult if not impossible.

But if your debts have reached a level where it has become virtually impossible for you to pay survival expenses and still service your debts, it's time to do something different.

The keiretsu system they have where there's a sort of conglomerate of industrial and financial... Most of the financing of industry was done by borrowed money rather than by equity through Japan's revival from the end of the Second World War so they had an average debt level of about 1.5 times GDP until about 1980.

Debt Adjustment is based on Gross Interest Expense, and I generally aim for an increased debt level where interest is still limited to 15 % of EBIT, which normally seems prudent — almost inevitably, I haircut my Debt Adjustment by 50 % to be more conservatDebt Adjustment is based on Gross Interest Expense, and I generally aim for an increased debt level where interest is still limited to 15 % of EBIT, which normally seems prudent — almost inevitably, I haircut my Debt Adjustment by 50 % to be more conservatdebt level where interest is still limited to 15 % of EBIT, which normally seems prudent — almost inevitably, I haircut my Debt Adjustment by 50 % to be more conservatDebt Adjustment by 50 % to be more conservative.

On the best and worst jobs in Canada, where the world's happiest employees live and easing household debt levels.

This is the level where they see that the credit score is fine, and the income - to - debt ratios are fine.

Across the board, debt levels aren't far from where they were in 2008:

If you're feeling like your level of debt isn't where you want it to be, and you're committed to paying it down, a debt consolidation loan can be a great way to take back the control you're missing.

Just because the stock market as a whole is overvalued and high debt levels will make growth difficult and surprises more likely to be negative than positive, it doesn't mean that there aren't plenty of stocks that are undervalued and where intrinsic value is, in fact, growing.

And as it is with property, so goes the traditional print media space, where investors have seen accountants significantly write down once extremely valuable newspaper assets, while debt levels have proven immune to such accounting adjustments.

Some see the rise of online purchasing where everything is just a click away as driving levels of consumerism and debt that we simply can not pay back.

They don't like to talk about the distribution of wealth at the national level, much less the global level — where, as none other than Pope Francis has recently reminded us, we owe the developing world, the poorest people on the planet, a massive ecological and climate debt.

Where litigation is necessary to resolve debt and related problems, we offer responsive and effective service at all levels, including alternative dispute resolution, prejudgment remedies, and a renowned trial and appellate practice.

Where insolvency litigation is heavily finance based, for example because the underlying contracts are based on ISDA Master Agreements, the debt enforcement and insolvency court may not dispose of the same level of expertise as the commercial court.

«As a publicly traded REIT, we don't use mezz that often because on average our debt levels are below the leverage range where you typically see mezz,» says Jeffrey Echt, senior vice president and treasurer for Trizec.

Marks, like cohorts at Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investor Services, looks at the debt side of the equation, where he maintains that shopping center REITs have healthy balance sheets and relatively low leverage levels.