Buying more short-term debt is pointless because the interest rate on that debt is near zero.
购买更多的短期债务时毫无意义，因为短期债务的利率几乎为零。
Bond prices were mixed Monday, with short-term debt falling slightly and longer term Treasurys rising.
美国国债价格周一涨跌互现，短期国债价格小幅下跌，长期国债价格上涨。
To see the system at work, look at auction-rate securities, a sort of long-term debt invented in the 1980s.
要想知道该系统如何运作，只需看看拍卖利率证券即可，这是一种创造于上世纪80年代的长期债务。
But there should be the monetary room to finance reconstruction without generating a near-term debt crisis.
但是同时应该预留货币空间以在不产生短期债务危机的情况下支持重建。
It surprises many people that stocks have paid such an enormous premium over the return on short-term debt.
很多人没有想到的是，股票相比短期债券而言，存在一个巨大的溢价。
Bankers also say the increased cost of long-term debt is justified when it provides breathing space in a crunch.
银行家们也认为，关键时刻，长期债务能产生一个可供喘息的机会，所以提高长期债务成本合情合理。
For European bankers terrified of being forced to raise long-term debt in choppy markets, that should be some relief.
由于欧洲的银行家害怕被迫在动荡不安的市场上高筑长期债务，这应该可以起到一些缓解作用。
Scoring these huge numerical pluses and minuses in terms of their net impact on long-term debt is no simple task.
要想算清楚这些举措的净影响-正的、负的，可不是件容易的事。
The speculative binge was abetted by a giant "shadow banking system" in which the Banks relied heavily on short-term debt.
投机热潮被一个巨大的“影子银行系统”助长，在这一系统中银行很大程度上依赖于短期债务。
In the past, bank credit was rationed, and other non-bank sources of medium to long-term debt were effectively suppressed.
以往，银行信贷是限量供应的，中长期贷款的其它非银行来源也被有效封堵。
The proliferation of interest-rate derivatives since the late 1990s means Banks can hedge the risks of holding long-term debt.
90年代后期利率衍生品的扩散增殖意味着银行可以规避持有长期债务的风险。
The Fed seems to believe its actions matter more for psychology than in influencing the supply of and demand for long-term debt.
美联储认为此举更多程度上是提振市场信心而对长期贷款的影响不大。
Banks own a lot of long-term assets (like your mortgage) and hold a lot of short-term debt (which is cheaper than long-term debt).
银行持有很多长期资产(比如你的贷款)和短期债务(利率比长期的要低)。
Take a bank that replaced long-term debt with equity in order to raise its ratio of equity to risk-adjusted assets from 10% to 15%.
银行将债权转为股权，用以将其股权对风险调整资产的比例从10%，调整到15%。
As the value of the peso continued to decline, it took more and more of them to finance the dollar value of Mexico's short-term debt.
由于比索持续贬值，要花费越来越多的比索来支付墨西哥短期债务的美元价值。
To mitigate that risk, these countries eschew short-term debt and keep debt ratios low; some build up huge war chests of foreign currency.
为了缓和这一风险，这些国家避开短期债务并保持低负债率，其中有些国家筹备巨额的外币款项。
Banks are supposed to make money by skilfully managing the risk of transforming short-term debt into long-term loans; instead, they were undone by it.
银行本来应靠巧妙地管理短期负债转为长期贷款的风险来挣钱；然而，他们却因此陷入困境。
Mr Green believes the demand for short-term debt has also shaken the long-term bond market out of its torpor, pushing issues from $8 billion to $13 billion.
格林认为，长期债券市场也因短期负债需求的存在而重现活力，发行量从80亿美元增加到130亿美元。
What is more, Citi's nonguaranteed bond cost 2.19 percentage points more than the 3.31% aggregate interest rate it was paying on all its long-term debt at the end of June.
此外，花旗截止6月底为所有长期债券支付的利率总计为3.31%，其无担保债券的利率比这一利率高出2.19个百分点。
Such fiscal adjustment may be necessary to ensure medium-term debt sustainability, but its immediate effect would lead to a reduction in private and public aggregate demand.
为了保持债务的中期可持续性，这些财政调节措施或许是必要的，但其短期效应将导致私人和公共部门总体需求的减少。
The other thing that I mentioned last time was that there seems to be a really big difference between the expected return on the stock market and the expected return on short-term debt.
上节课提到的另一条内容是,股票市场的预期收益,与短期债券的预期收益,存在着巨大差异
The problem was exacerbated because, as Mexico’s condition deteriorated, in order to raise money it had issued short-term debt instruments called tesobonos, which had to be repaid in dollars.
问题越来越严重，因为随着墨西哥形势的恶化，为了筹集资金，墨西哥发行了一种称为“特索博诺斯”的短期债券，这种债券必须用美元偿还。
That and an AA long-term-debt rating, as well as less reliance on volatile trading businesses than other banks, had enabled ING to withstand the financial storm better than other banks.
凭借这一点加上AA的长期债券评级，以及对波动性较高的交易业务的依赖程度低于其他银行，荷兰国际集团在这场金融风暴中的表现要好于其他银行。
That and an AA long-term-debt rating, as well as less reliance on volatile trading businesses than other banks, had enabled ING to withstand the financial storm better than other banks.
凭借这一点加上AA的长期债券评级，以及对波动性较高的交易业务的依赖程度低于其他银行，荷兰国际集团在这场金融风暴中的表现要好于其他银行。
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