Sentence examples for debt equivalent from inspiring English sources

Petrobras has net debt equivalent to four times its gross operating profit.

To do all this Mr Artamonov has run up debt equivalent to 54% of the region's annual tax take.

With public debt equivalent to more than 130% of GDP, the scope for further fiscal stimulus is limited.

Until Italy starts reducing its debt, equivalent to 120% of GDP, that is unlikely to be a priority for Mr Monti's government, or any other.

With general government debt equivalent to 160% of GDP, the public finances remain arguably the darkest cloud hanging over Japan's economy.

Nominally, GE Capital has debt equivalent to eight times equity, a comfortable enough level of leverage, says Moody's, a rating agency.

The Belgian government has debts equivalent to 117% of GDP; net interest payments equal more than 7% of GDP.

China's largest bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), says its branch in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, has bad debts equivalent to 80% of its portfolio.

But they argued that the Amherst authors had also found lower growth rates when a country had debts equivalent to or greater than 90 percent of annual economic output.

Congress should pass a law mandating an interest rate on those debts equivalent to what banks charge consumers on credit card accounts, including a provision that increases the rate to the card maximum after a certain trigger.

To rehabilitate Indonesia's banking system, I reckon the new government will have to take on debts equivalent to 40% of GDP.