This action will help improve their financial situations while still paying debt service on outstanding bonds.
Companies with outstanding bonds called them and issued new bonds at lower rates.
Vincent Palermo, an index expert at Merrill Lynch, is testing indices that would weigh the size of countries' economies, as well as their outstanding bonds.
As market yields fall, the value of outstanding bonds will increase.
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This is not about defaulting on outstanding bonds, as Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and others on the right insist, and as Geithner has clumsily threatened.
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Judging the robustness of the dividend is very similar to how bond analysts evaluate the ability of a company to pay interest on its outstanding bonds.
Traders and investors in Europe welcomed the move by Greece Monday to buy back up to 10 billion Euros of its outstanding bonds at a price from 30 to 40 cents on the dollar.
In overnight news, the Euro currency and European stocks were given a boost when Greece announced it would buy back up to 10 billion Euros of its outstanding bonds at a price from 30 to 40 cents on the dollar.
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The Euro currency, European stocks and the raw commodity markets were given a mild boost Monday when Greece announced overnight it would buy back up to 10 billion Euros of its outstanding bonds at a price from 30 to 40 cents on the dollar.
Together with local debt, long term government bonds outstanding will total some JPY 900 trillion, close to 180 percent of GDP, a level higher even than crisis-gripped Greece.
One reason why they might do so is that the country has some bonds outstanding where the interest rate to be paid is linked to the officially reported inflation rate.
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Most of that is sold by bigger players, those that have the large amounts of bonds outstanding needed for the trading activity that lets investors assess the "fair value" of the debt.
Like swaps on interest rates and foreign currency, credit swaps outstanding dwarf the underlying bonds in circulation.
Prices factored in expectations that outstanding values would decline and the bonds' weighted average lifetimes would fall short of their official maturity dates.
The ministry's outstanding corporate debt, ranging from long bonds to short-dated bills, stands at 711.5 billion yuan.
To be eligible for inclusion in the ETF, RMB Bonds must have an amount outstanding of greater than or equal to 750 million RMB and a minimum of six months remaining to bond maturity.
This statute precludes any nation from selling bonds or other securities in the United States so long as it has outstanding defaulted obligations to the American government.
Earnings per share are already reported based both on shares outstanding and on a fully diluted basis, that is, if all options, warrants, convertible bonds, etc. are exercised.
Bonds with a maturity of more than ten years account for a third of the value of all outstanding bond issues.
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