Vivendi also said it was in talks with a group of banks, including BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and J.P. Morgan Chase, to arrange a loan of 2.7 billion euros ($3.3 billion) that it hoped would persuade credit rating agencies to lift their junk-bond ratings on the company's debt, providing the "financial flexibility of an investment-grade company".
Typically, under terms that the record labels worked out with the streaming services (and somehow persuaded the federal rate courts to sign off on), when a song is streamed, sixty per cent of the income goes to the owners of the sound recording, thirty per cent goes to the service itself, and ten per cent goes to songwriters and publishers.
Ms. Blum credited the brothers with persuading first-rate dentists, doctors and other medical professionals -- "who wouldn't have touched some of the folks at Willowbrook," she said -- to treat developmentally disabled people.
If central bankers are persuaded to keep rates steady because they think the economy has reached equilibrium, stocks could be primed for a sell-off.
The city's low vacancy rate has persuaded several investors to put up buildings without any signed tenants.
He wrote that the court was "persuaded" that the water rate hikes were an "urgency measure". .
Both Aleto and Ogwang hope Centenary Bank can be persuaded to lower its lending rate, so that Kajofaco, in turn, can lower the interest rate paid by borrowers.
I'm no good at it, but over the telephone, I persuaded them to cut our rate, including taxes, to $915.
At any rate, I am persuaded that we ought to try".
In the late summer of 1998 as Russia defaulted on its debt, the bond market's seizures persuaded the Fed to cut rates aggressively.
