However, women reported being more concerned than men about household expenses, debt and their ability to save for retirement.
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Although BHP had arranged a loan facility with its banks to cover the additional debt, it was evidently concerned about its ability to refinance the debt in future.
His point was that policymakers should not be preoccupied with the absolute level of national debt, but instead with our ability to sustain whatever level of debt we have.
Horton's debt-to-earnings ratio, a measure of a company's ability to shoulder debt, recently hit a daunting 25%.
What happens if we pay down our debt and the world, at least those parts that use our debt to guarantee transactions, has to find something else as secure, liquid and has some fractional ability like our debt.
Critics said the team's debt load restricted its ability to keep and attract top talent.
High levels of debt directly threaten the ability of a government to control its own budget priorities.
Consumer debt can affect your ability to secure a mortgage, pass a credit check for a rental application, or get a job.
But holding credit card debt rather than medical debt could hinder your ability to get financial assistance if you run into trouble paying your bills.
And obviously when you have those high levels of debt, it impacts your ability to save and to build net worth.
Your ability to carry debt depends on your progress and confidence at work and in building your savings, investments and rainy-day liquidity.
But the ability to repay debt depends not only on the level of interest rates, but also, crucially, on the rate of growth in future incomes.
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Indeed, because the debt deal will limit the ability of Congress to spend money directly, it is likely to encourage lawmakers to expand their use of tax subsidies.
Lehman was one of the biggest commercial paper dealers, and its collapse sent shock waves through the short-term debt markets, limiting the ability of companies to raise short-term cash.
"If you're a banker and you're looking at the ability to repay debt at the corporate level, there is virtually no operating cash flow, " says a Hong Kong securities analyst.
However, the persistence of debt will subsequently constrain homebuyers' ability to trade up in the market.
If large amounts were used to buy back Greek debt, that would limit its ability to support other countries.
This is what led to the downgrade, not whether the U.S. had the ability to service its debt today.
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And the slump has undermined Argentina's ability to service its debt.
This sort of gain in productivity ultimately translates into increased economic activity, the ability to pay down debt and a higher standard of living for those of us who are employed.
Neither a 2 percent hike in Social Security payroll taxes that took effect in January, nor delayed federal income tax returns this year appeared to blunt borrowers' ability to manage their debt.
Times Co. began trying to sell its stake in the Red Sox and related properties in late 2008 when steep declines in revenue at its core newspaper business were threatening the company's ability to manage its debt.
When asked for his thoughts on Falkirk manager Steven Pressley's comments that clubs who tried to keep their accounts in the black were at an unfair advantage, Smith was keen to point out that it is all relative to a club's ability to service the debt that they accumulate.
Yet mitigating the risk of default is the fact that Ecuador's ability to service its debt has improved in recent months, as high energy prices, increased taxation of the oil sector and the state's take-over of Block 15 previously run by a US company, Occidental Petroleum (Oxy), are boosting the fiscal surplus and foreign reserves.
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Under pressure to meet these restrictions, the banks would have limited Daewoo's ability to take on new debt.
Raising the debt ceiling simply gives our country the ability to pay the bills that Congress has already racked up.
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My model calls for companies to have the ability to pay off their debt within five years, based on their current earnings.
And so what you're seeing right now is a lack of certainty about Italy's and Spain's ability to roll over the debt.
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We have received from Morgan Stanley a "highly confident" letter related to our ability to raise the required debt financing for this transaction.
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