Sentence examples for debt measures from inspiring English sources

Germany has pledged to work with the new Greek government, but made no indication that it would be willing to negotiate on its debt measures.

States like Illinois may expect a downgrade.It's a contentious issue whether or not pension liabilities should be included in state or sovereign debt measures, in addition to outstanding bonds.

A college program that fails to pass at least one of the three debt measures for three out of four consecutive years will lose eligibility for federal student aid.

Page A4 SMALL STEPS TO HEAL EUROPE Questions rise over whether the new debt measures palatable to Germany, like giving countries more time to curtail deficits, will be enough to combat the Continent's problems.

He also screens for relatively low levels of long-term debt, measured by the ratio of debt to total assets.

Under European public-accounting rules money owed to suppliers is generally not counted in the official debt measure.

And Russia's debt, measured as a proportion of economic output, is one-tenth that of the United States and many European countries.

Here's debt and interest rates since the Bank was founded: The print is a bit small, but the blue line is the ratio of public debt to GDP, measured on the right axis, and the red line is the yield on long-term government debt, measured on the left.

These would include having $20 billion in debt, $3.5 billion in derivative liabilities, a 15-to-1 leverage ratio of total assets to total equity, short-term debt measuring 10 percent of total assets or credit-default swaps written against the company with at least $30 billion in notional value.

An extra layer of 5% or so of such debt (measured against a bank's risk-adjusted assets) could be possible, which would put Britain's regime in between the minimum required by new international rules and the very tough new standards that Switzerland is about to impose.And on core capital, the commission insisted that retail banks must hold a 10% ratio.

Despite repeated requests from Laiki, auditors say, Mr. Sallas did not post additional collateral as the shares rapidly lost value; eventually the debt, measured by the gap between the size of the loan and the Piraeus stock that backed it, reached 107 million euros, according to the reports.