Time Warner Cable has high leverage and any increase in costs affect its value significantly.
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Interest-bearing debt was JPY 1.2 trillion, relatively high financial leverage for a manufacturing company with high operating leverage.
In 1973 a REIT boasted in its annual report about its high leverage.
As a uniquely poisonous cocktail, mixing fears of rising rates with high leverage and silly valuations, the market for such bonds is hard to beat.
Push the fast trading and high leverage to hedge funds which fail at a rather regular rate with little or not impact on the wider economy.
The worry is exacerbated by the high leverage (ie, use of borrowed money) of many hedge funds: this boosts returns on good days but magnifies losses too.
"We often advise our funds, especially those with swaps or high leverage, to organize as an offshore vehicle for U.S. investors because of the tax advantages, " he says.
Archstone, which owned about 50, 000 rental units, was one of Lehman's largest investments, and the apartment owner's high leverage contributed to the demise of the investment bank in September 2008.
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In addition, he says, the returns they do achieve are due to factors, including high leverage and the overall movement of the stockmarket, for which private-equity managers cannot claim credit.
Archstone, which owned about 50, 000 rental units, was one of Lehman's largest investments, and the apartment owner's high leverage contributed to the demise of the storied investment bank in September 2008.
"With its high leverage ratio to tangible common equity, we believe Lehman needs to raise substantial capital regardless of market conditions in order to take its needed write-downs, " Einhorn said in an email Tuesday.
If you look at the data, about 49 percent of homeowners have one measure of vulnerability: high debt payments, high levels of variable interest rate debt, a very high leverage, they own very little of ground homes or they own very little outside of their homes.
Then, in July 1997, the Asian Crisis hit, and everyone looked on in horror as hot money from global hedge funds, fueled by the steroid of high leverage, brought the economies of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia to their knees, first creating asset bubbles when it flowed in, and then causing the local currencies to collapse when it was suddenly withdrawn.
"We target institutions with high degrees of leverage, high concentrations of assets in deteriorating sectors and rising credit costs, " Paulson wrote this spring.
What is striking is that there has been modest reductions in the indebtedness of British households and non-financial companies over the past three years, to 98% and 109% of GDP respectively - which are still high levels of leverage or high debt ratios by historic standards.
Disney has a high operating leverage and any improvement in content monetization will lead to margin growth.
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Because forwards settle in over two days, they require more credit from traders, as they are high-leverage activities.
Since WoW has very high operating leverage any decline in revenue will have dramatic effects on the bottom line.
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Specialists enter to face one batter in high-leverage situations, while the long man stays available in case of emergency.
Disney has high operating leverage as the bulk of its costs are fixed.
Once you have a handful of clear, high-leverage strategies, you can use them as a filter to decide what to do.
The message to CEOs is that team ball wins, and the first step to team ball is having a defined culture and identifying high-leverage positions whose occupants make everyone else better.
With plenty of free cash flow and strong balance sheets, the companies listed above, despite being in a very volatile industry with high operating leverage, would seem to be able to weather all but the most extreme technology slumps.
Municipal and local municipal bonds will see historic defaults due to high levels of leverage.
Such directories are a dull, predictable business, and the bonds are rated junk only because of the high levels of leverage used for the acquisitions.
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My firm's research suggests that business and consumer confidence there is high, that there is not too much leverage in China's marketplace (leverage, not high prices, is what causes dangerous real estate and stock bubbles) and that the government is investing smartly in infrastructure projects like rail lines, subways and clean technology initiatives that improve economic efficiency and lower the costs of doing business.
There are some concerns to be aware of with HUN, including its vulnerability to the fluctuations in price of crude, and its high-degree of leverage.
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We believe that if Oracle could leverage its high end servers to grow its software business, it could create upside to our estimate for Oracle stock.
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Alternatively, the charges against Clinton could collapse, leaving him with his mysteriously high ratings and new leverage to help marginal Democrats win seats in the House and Senate.
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