Bad news for high-cost, highly leveraged drillers but good news for the U.S. economy overall.
Indeed, the 1986 tax reform ended special big depreciation deductions for highly leveraged real estate.
Bank examiners start to ask bankers: Why do you have so many highly leveraged transaction loans?
Well capital markets are more-or-less closed for highly leveraged companies (businesses with big debts).
Most European banks are highly leveraged and are dangerously exposed to self-fulfilling runs from uninsured creditors.
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The Lehman collapse didn't help either MMR or EXXI since both are highly leveraged companies.
Banca Intesa is helping Granarolo to explore the option of a highly leveraged bid.
Highly leveraged economies rely on low nominal interest rates to keep debt-service costs manageable.
One caveat: The company is highly leveraged with a debt-to-equity ratio of .95.
But senior Fed officials do worry that such a highly leveraged company as Enron escaped regulatory oversight.
True, there was the usual array of questionable balance sheets, particularly in the highly leveraged electrical utility industry.
As prices plummeted, margin calls went out to many highly leveraged REITs, and one, Criimi Mae, went bankrupt.
Homeowners remain highly leveraged, according to Goldman, and overleveraged homeowners will definitely need to cut back on consumption.
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Some of them invested in Mike Milken junk bonds, others invested in real estate and other highly leveraged loans.
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Since much of this is highly leveraged, their actual losses on the instruments could be much greater than that.
Because indexed stock options pay primarily for out performance, they are highly leveraged.
First, Drexel Burnham's Michael Milken made bonds respectable even when a company was highly leveraged and its interest coverage thin.
He wants banks to increase the cushion of collateral they require from highly leveraged clients, in case trades go bad.
Many retailers became "highly leveraged" - taking on big debts to keep trading, thus exposing them to takeover bids by rivals.
Those who are highly leveraged or those forced to sell in order to raise capital are experiencing the most pain right now.
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The radio stocks, relatively new conglomerates with highly leveraged capitalizations, look good.
Corporate debt, especially the stuff issued by highly leveraged companies, would look decidedly unattractive as those companies struggled with higher interest payments.
An overly narrow definition might settle on those funds that engage in highly leveraged trading strategies which utilises short selling or complex derivatives.
By the second quarter of 1988, Wall Street, including Drexel, was still doing highly leveraged deals when the time had passed for leverage.
The billionaire Ballmer and rich Hansen can simply write a check to the Maloofs, whose casino business and basketball team are highly leveraged.
As plenty of highly leveraged borrowers learned in the crisis, hefty short-term funding can change from a profit engine to a huge liability overnight.
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Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. (OWW), which is highly leveraged to the U.S. airline industry, has been crushed to the tune of 37 percent this year.
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"Clearly there's greater upside potential in the highly leveraged companies, " says William Price, a partner with financier David Bonderman in Fort Worth-based Texas Pacific Group.
Many of her highly leveraged companies are severely troubled and as a result her once triple-AAA bond deals have been reduced to junk status.
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Highly leveraged balance sheets could lead to bankruptcies during hard times.
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