It is possible that if they did, it would dwarf the difference between growth in high- and low-debt countries.
Just six of these low-debt outfits that have PE ratios below 20, in fact, but they include some juicy names.
FORBES: Five Stocks Killing the S&P 500: the Joys, and Profits, of Investing in Debt-Free Companies
The fact is, low-debt companies should trade at higher multiples.
FORBES: Five Stocks Killing the S&P 500: the Joys, and Profits, of Investing in Debt-Free Companies
And investors adore these low-debt stocks.
FORBES: Five Stocks Killing the S&P 500: the Joys, and Profits, of Investing in Debt-Free Companies
He says an ample portion of its low-quality debt could still be salvaged with good management.
Organizations like CCS offer confidential, free or low-cost debt and credit counseling services.
CNN: High tides and higher interest rates: Wading through financial storms
In the past, China's insurers were required to put the majority of their investments into low-risk debt securities like government bonds.
Mr Altman is especially worried by the large amount of low-quality debt issued in recent years, much of it to finance private-equity deals.
Rather than give an absolute number for what constitutes a low-level debt, the Zweig strategy looks for debt that is below the average for the company's industry.
Buffett isn't offering to help the insurers with those problems, although by backing the low-risk debt on their books he at least gives them some extra capital to deal with the situation.
See which government bonds have low debt-to-GDP, preferably under 30%, with low budget deficits and a current account surplus or strong current account balance in a country that is growing at least 3% GDP annually.
The first three parameters we look to are rising revenues over the most recent three-year period, rising earnings over the recent three-year period and a relatively low or controlled long-term debt to equity.
FORBES: Rising Revenues, Rising Earnings And Low Debt? Sounds Like Time To Buy Intel And P&G
Air France-KLM is renegotiating pay and conditions with its staff and cutting more than 5, 000 jobs, as high fuel costs and competition from low-cost airlines take their toll on the debt-laden company.
The third came in 1998 when the long-term capital management debacle and Russia's default sent low-grade bond prices plummeting, crushing high-debt REITs like Criimi Mae and Laser Mortgage Management with margin calls.
Well, by European standards, they have relatively low exposure to the debts of the Greek, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian governments - and their low quality Irish debt is in the form of loans to developers and homeowners.
The euro area's consumers have high savings and low debt by rich-world standards but are nervous all the same.
ECONOMIST: The euro area��s manufacturing rump has been whipped, too
Despite a low starting-point for public debt, deficit overshoots have revealed insufficient central control over the 17 regions that are responsible for a big chunk of spending.
Even if computers owned by the poor are a few technological generations behind, and even if low-income families go into debt to afford their internet service, online access is available to more families every year regardless of income.
Gold edged up as policy-setters signaled low rates would continue until mid-2015 and monetization of debt would continue, said Zachary Oxman, portfolio manager for TrendMax.
FORBES: Comex Gold Futures Pare Loss Slightly After FOMC Statement
Reserve countries such as the United States are tempted to obtain low-cost loans and grow into debt, which causes instability in the world economy.
The chancellor has argued that for a country like Britain with relatively low debt and a run-down public infrastructure, it makes sense to borrow to invest.
With returns on American Treasury bonds and high-grade debt too low to meet the needs of pension funds and endowments, they have to take more risks.
ECONOMIST: In emerging markets, the bond-market dogs lose their bite
Bernstein, and Ben Reitzes of Barclays Capital, have called for Apple to take advantage of low-interest rates and take on debt to fund its cash back programs.
FORBES: As Anniversary of Dividend, Buyback Nears, Investors Want Apple To Show Them the Money
Another rapidly growing country with a decentralized government, Brazil has financed nearly every renewable energy project through the National Social Economic Development Bank (BNDES) with low-cost and long-term debt financing.
FORBES: Expensive Loans Dim The Prospects For Renewable Energy In India
Right now, he sees vast similarities between the bond market today and the low-interest rate world with high debt-to-GDP after World War II that led to a generational bear market in bonds.
FORBES: Burton Malkiel Advises Running From Bonds Into Dividends, Emerging Markets
Officials at the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Bank for International Settlements (the central banks' central bank) have given some support to the view that monetary policy should sometimes lean against a rapid growth in asset prices and build-up of debt, even if consumer-price inflation is low.
Highly leveraged economies rely on low nominal interest rates to keep debt-service costs manageable.
Amid low interest rates and record-high household debt, the government moved aggressively to try to tame what it said were frothy markets, particularly for Toronto and Vancouver condos.
Nations ranging from Indonesia to Brazil to the Philippines have sold bonds at record-low yields as investors seek government debt they deem safe even as they demand higher payments from nations they don't.
应用推荐