Today's dividend yield is uncompetitive with municipal paper and low-grade corporates and is subject to cutbacks like GE's.
All of them got into trouble with their investment portfolios last year, particularly in commercial real estate, mortgage paper and low-grade corporate bonds.
Just over a year later I came across that scribbled piece of paper and low and behold I had achieved eight of the ten goals.
But my printing problems today have nothing to do with paper jams, low toner, or any other error caused by the actual putting of words on paper.
The company was able to raise short-term paper at very low interest rates, which lowered its overall cost of borrowing.
We're not talking streamers and bright paper signs advertising low APRs.
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In 2001, in a desperate effort to stave off debt default, Domingo Cavallo, the economy minister, forced them to swap bonds (and cash) for long-dated or low-yielding paper.
Mr Ban has also used paper-tube technology to create low-cost, recyclable, pest-resistant temporary dwellings for victims of earthquakes in Japan and Turkey and for Rwandan refugees.
Low investment-grade paper still gets my money because the yield disparity with 10-year Treasuries, at least 300 basis points, is still attractive if you believe Treasury yields stick near 3% for a year or two.
Among the biggest losers, Shenzhen-traded Shandong Sun Paper sank to a three-year closing low of 5.03 yuan on Thursday, before edging up 0.01 yuan on Friday.
"This paper confirms that radiation, even in relatively low doses, does lead to risk" of certain cancers, said Alan Craft, emeritus chair at Newcastle University and an author of the paper.
Because of the various assumptions used in the paper, this range should be considered conservative and low-end.
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On paper, the correlation between heavy fish consumption and low incidence of bipolar disorder is a strong one.
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Compared to many other states, where some differences are kept low-profile and borrowing ensues to paper them over, Minnesota is known for its open, upfront approach.
In 1999, at the height of the bull market, he co-wrote a paper arguing that targeting asset prices when consumer inflation was low would tend to increase, not decrease, economic instability.
The paper presents findings from the national NHS staff survey indicating low morale at many trusts, and concludes that cutting pay or jobs "would put even more pressure on an already weakened workforce".
It appears that the Texas Instruments controller chosen for the e-paper watch does not support the wireless protocol's low energy profile, something Pebble lists as one of the specs on its site (we've reached out to the company for clarification on this matter).
Corporate debt expense dropped from over 5 percent to the present low point of 2.67 percent on AAA paper.
In a paper published in the January issue of Cryptologia, he uses low-tech 16th-century methods, rather than 20th-century computing, to generate text resembling that in the book.
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For example, another recent paper examining autism and genetics found effects of inheriting a ton of low-impact variants all at once.
If low bond yields unhinge and people start selling, much more paper has to exit via a smaller door.
The Congressional Budget Office has just released a working paper evaluating the various ways that the effect of the carbon tax on low-income families might be offset.
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While Staples' 10% discounts on printer paper and toner made it a close race, Office Depot's low prices and 5% overall discount pushed their prices below the other retailers.
Selecting a low-viz design made sense, because many people assumed the paper-pushers housed in the Pentagon would largely disappear once the war was over.
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Springsteen was sitting near a low table covered with picks, capos, harmonicas, and sheets of paper with lists of songs written in thick black marker.
Unlike banks, which have two-thirds of their liabilities in sticky, low-cost deposits, GE gets most of its funding from commercial paper and bonds that can become expensive or inaccessible in a crisis.
Interestingly, an April 18 paper in the journal Nature reported that upper limits for neutrinos measured from IceCube are low enough that gamma-ray bursts are unlikely to be the sole source of ultra-high energy cosmic rays.
For Soap.com, Lore and Bharara will employ the same merchandising strategy that they used to grow Diapers.com: lure in customers with fast delivery on low-margin goods--like baby formula and now, toilet paper--and then profit from higher-margin products like car seats and, with Soap.com, vitamins and beauty products.
Companies with low investment grade rating are calling outstanding 7 percent preferreds and replacing them with paper yielding 5.5 percent.
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