Today's announcement by the Fed that it will purchase direct debt obligations of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks, and also mortgage backed securities guaranteed by Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie Mae, underscores our support for the housing market.
And while they expressly refused direct guarantees of Greek debt or grants of rescue funds, there are rumors that they quietly assured their domestic financial institutions they would stand behind them to staunch losses from any Greek default.
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It turns out that the biggest American money market funds have relatively little direct ownership of Greek government debt.
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On reflection, perhaps you should think through your call to have more mortgage debt held by institutions with direct government guarantees and exposures, not to mention the efficacy of the implicit call for higher mortgage costs to American consumers.
Therefore, the direct transfer of funds and assumption of old CNPC debt will significantly and materially aid CNPC in that it will now be able to use its current or future revenues to finance its foreign operations.
The composition of those flows has changed: foreign direct investment and equity flows have risen much faster than debt.
Although the ECB is prohibited by law from providing direct fiscal aid to member governments, it may buy debt in the market to ensure the proper conduct of monetary policy.
The study shows direct mail offers are also becoming more widespread for soliciting new debt as more issuers offer attractive introductory interest rates.
Debt also factored into Francis Ford Coppola's decision to direct the film adaptation.
No, of course not, what is happening here is a direct result of the banks being encourage to fill their boots with sovereign debt.
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Some of these debt instruments are: consumer loans, micro loans, factoring, direct real estate loans and mortgage backed securities.
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Trading Direct, for instance, lends investors who are willing to assume a heavy debt load at a variable rate of 1.25 percent.
When combined with funding the general cash deficits, these multitrillion-dollar Treasury operations will dominate the capital markets in the years ahead, particularly given China's de-emphasis of new investment in U.S. Treasurys in favor of increasing foreign direct investment, and Japan's and Europe's own sovereign-debt challenges.
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This sort of structure would provide leverage relative to traditional direct lending by EFSF in that given a relatively low probability of default, the total debt that could be insured would be larger than the total that could be lent directly.
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The European debt crisis looms as a subplot to the game, and although soccer has no direct effect on European fiscal policy, the game serves as an outlet for the tension between the Greeks and the Germans.
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"We look for high cash, low debt, and screen for management quality and efficiency, " Callahan says, adding that he considers direct meetings with companies' executive spinmeisters a waste of time.
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