有部分公司严重亏损,像巴基斯坦的一个抵押贷款提供商和印度的一个药品连锁店,但大部分的公司还是可以清偿它们的债务(给予低于市场利率的优惠),甚至还创造了红利。
Some ventures, including a Pakistani mortgage provider and an Indian pharmacy chain, have flopped. But many others manage to repay their loans (granted at below market rates) or generate dividends.
整个欧洲大陆的保险公司在上世纪80及90年代很乐意销售有最低回报率保证的保单,因为它们相信长期利率不会远低于5%。
Many insurers across the continent happily sold policies in the 1980s and 1990s with guaranteed minimum returns in the belief that long-term interest rates would not fall much below 5%.
这将保证银行间拆借利率,公司和家庭贷款的基准利率,都将低于英国3个月,6个月和9个月的定期存款到期利率。
That has kept interbank rates, the benchmark for loans to firms and households, below British levels at 3-month, 6-month and 12-month maturities.
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