The company has 43 billion yen in bond payments due this year, about one-fifth of its total debt.
"It's only transparency that will make elected officials scared to invest in dangerous products," said Jean-Christophe Boyer, deputy mayor of Laval, in western France, which has swaps covering about 25 percent of its total debt of €86 million.
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GE Capital is reducing its exposure to the commercial paper market to at most 15.0% of its total debt.
Even if the government's annual borrowing were to stabilize at 4 percent of G.D.P., its total debt would continue to grow faster than its revenues.
As long ago as 2010, when Greece was first bailed out, many knowledgeable observers, including some members of the I.M.F.'s board of directors, worried that Greece would never be able to pay back all of its debts — its total debt burden is about a hundred and seventy five per cent of the country's G.D.P. — and advocated imposing a haircut on its creditors.
Indeed, the United States government is running a deficit of Greek proportions, although its total debt load is much less frightening.
It suffered the worst banking crisis in history; all three of its biggest banks failed, its total debt jumped to 800% of GDP – far worse than what any European country faces today, relative to the size of its economy.
By passing a law this week that gives the government the right to impose a loss of as much as 75 percent on all investors who own bonds governed by Greek law, which covers 92 percent of bonds outstanding, Greece has, with one stroke, sharply increased its chances of erasing 107 billion euros ($144 billion) from its total debt burden of 373 billion euros ($496 billion).
At another stage, he seems to confuse America's annual deficit with its total debt of $14 trillion.
