The debt of a company is the amount of money it owes either to banks, or to bond holders, or to note holders, or commercial paper holders; these are fixed incomes.

公司的债务是指一笔借来的钱,不管债权人是银行还是股东,或债券所有人,或者商业票据所有人,这些都是固定收益

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Well after that, the bond price went up because people saw that as a sign that the company was tightening its belt and doing things right to have money to pay off the bondholders; so it was self-interested, I suppose--maybe you can ask him about this.

在这之后,债券的价格升高了,因为人们认为降低红利是一个信号,说明公司开始紧缩开支走向正轨,并且去偿付债券持有人,莱德利夫通过这种做法达到利己的目的,我想你们可以就此事向莱德利夫提问

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