Mortgage insurance from the Federal Housing Administration would make that kind of refinancing easier.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac might also be able to provide money for refinancing.
Weeks later, Miller and company celebrated the refinancing at Sparks Steak House in Manhattan.
It could also provide near unlimited liquidity through yet another huge long term refinancing operation.
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However, any surprises to the downside and a refinancing rate cut will be priced in.
To buy time, Miller orchestrated a massive restructuring--selling assets, issuing stock and refinancing bank debt.
With interest rates still low, companies are refinancing to get longer maturities and lower coupons.
In the home refinancing analogy, you are still responsible for your mortgage principal and interest payments.
That is, if you keep the mortgage long enough to recoup the upfront costs of refinancing.
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Just be sure that the interest savings will exceed the costs of refinancing.
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Retail and other cash-flow dependent companies may continue to face challenges in the refinancing market.
There were cost cutting, loan-loss reserve releases, investment-banking fees and trading and a wave of refinancing.
The reaction to take-up of the ECB's second long-term refinancing operation was fairly muted.
The funds are provided through bond refinancing savings Community Development Block Grant, and city funds.
Refinancing may not be worth it, even if possible: The fees may be too high.
Corporations are paring interest expense markedly through calling and refinancing debt and issuing preferred stock.
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Weekly MBA mortgage applications jumped by 15% as refinancing surged 23% through last weekend.
And this, we should say, is separate from the investigation that we were conducting about refinancing.
Of course, refinancing is not the only activity at Blackstone portfolio companies these days.
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Yet the terms of its refinancing for banks have clearly led to looser monetary conditions.
The MBA's index of refinancing applications jumped 62.6%, to 6, 758.6, the highest reading since July 2003.
Consumers are refinancing their mortgages for not much more than the Treasury borrows money.
Refinancing these is becoming harder and putting strain on local banks and credit availability.
Until recently, those bonds didn't face much risk from refinancing or repayment because they were troubled.
The real question is, who pays these refinancing costs and how exactly do they get paid?
Refinancing to reduce rates is generally a good idea especially when rates are hovering below 4%.
Unlike Fortescue, Rio Tinto's survival was not in doubt, but it faced an extraordinarily difficult refinancing.
We may never see these low rates again in our lifetime, but tread carefully when refinancing.
"You have a lot of people refinancing their mortgages at lower rates, " Goldberg said.
Refinancing a home will be allowed only up to 80% of its value, down from 85%.
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