The phrase "duration of debt" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to the length of time for which a debt must be paid off. For example, "My student loan had a long duration of debt – I paid it off over 10 years."
Debt-Limit Statute Subject to Court Challenge The three types of bondholder harm described above were the basis of my federal lawsuit to void the debt limit statute; I hold every type and duration of Treasury debt.
The engineering company ABB Ltd. plans to sell convertible bonds worth 850 million Swiss francs ($601 million) to partly refinance bank debt due at year's end, as well as extend the duration of its debt and diversify its financing.
Indeed, at this point, the average duration of US debt (integrating the Fed's balance sheet) is now under three years, well below that of most European countries, even taking into account their own central banks' massive quantitative-easing (QE) programmes.
That so slight a loss in an investment could trigger such chaos explains the anxiety among regulators about the potential threat such funds, deemed 100% safe, still pose to the financial system.In 2010 America's Securities and Exchange Commission SECC) required money-market funds to shorten the duration of their debt, and raise credit quality and liquidity.
Firms also claim they are protected from the whims of the bond market by the lengthening duration of their debts.
But in some European countries banks have been doing the opposite and shortening the duration of their debts.
Senator Orrin Hatch, the ranking member of the finance committee, said Obama brought up "new revenues," meaning taxes, and Obama expressed concern about the duration of the House Republican debt limit plan, Reuters reported.
Cutting them to a profit-neutral level and further extending the duration of Greece's debts could generate savings worth 17% of GDP, according to Mr Darvas.
It has been shown that non-survivors after major surgery have lower levels of oxygen consumption than survivors and, furthermore, that the magnitude and duration of this relative 'oxygen debt', indicating tissue hypoxia, were related to worse outcomes [ 8, 9].
However, 93% of the funds would have gone straight to cover the cost of maturing debt for the duration of the extension.
