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Growth slowed, though, as mortgage refinancings slumped after peaking in the second quarter and the average maturity of the company's debt lengthened as interest rates rose, pushing up its borrowing costs.
For example, as duration of the disease of interest lengthens, a person becomes increasingly likely to die of causes that are not associated with the specified disease.
Germany had demanded that condition in exchange for its agreement that debtor countries be allowed to lighten their burdens by reducing their interest rates, lengthening the maturities of their loans and allowing the European bailout fund to finance the buyback of bonds on the secondary market.
In doing so he disagreed publicly with Christine Lagarde, the IMF's chief, sitting next to him, who insisted that the 2020 date should be kept.Either way it is clear that Greece's debt will at the very least need to be rescheduled, for example by lengthening maturities or lowering interest rates.
pressed ministers to agree that Greece's debt should be cut by about 20 percent of G.D.P. through methods that include the debt buyback program at discounted prices, lowering interest rates, lengthening the deadlines for debt repayments, and returning profits to Greece made on bonds bought by the European Central Bank.
Both indices demonstrated an improvement in discrimination as the time window of interest was lengthened.
At the last minute, Morgan himself canceled when business interests lengthened his stay abroad.
If Athens can hold the course, there is a good chance that the euro zone will agree further to lighten its debt load, which amounts to about 160 percent of G.D.P., by cutting the interest rate and lengthening the maturities of official loans.
If Europe's leaders fail to extricate Greece from its current unsustainable debt-servicing obligations — by lowering interest rates and lengthening maturities at a minimum — the market reaction, for all of Europe, may be unforgiving, and uncontainable as investors conclude that no European sovereign debt is safe from possible default.
With this reform program in place, the government should then negotiate some debt restructuring, which could be based on lengthening debt maturity and fixing interest rates to the current low levels.
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