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Given the near-term potential for increased costs associated with the district's variable rate obligations (as discussed below), Moody's will closely monitor the district's progress in securing a new liquidity provider over the next several months leading up to the April 2011 expiration of the current standby purchase agreement.
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As you can see, the bulk of this debt consisted of floating-rate obligations.
The arrangements are typically made when borrowers want to exchange variable-rate debt for fixed-rate obligations.
Many nonfinancial companies use interest rate swaps to transform floating-rate obligations into fixed ones, as do municipalities and other local governments.
(To hedge its exposure to interest rates, the hospital aims to keep a 50/50 balance between fixed and variable-rate obligations).
Then Enron guarantees the customer some other price, usually pegged to a regional index, and uses its trading desk to lay off the risk much as a swap dealer exchanges fixed-rate obligations for floating-rate ones.
In a typical interest-rate swap, one party agrees to exchange a fixed-rate obligation with another that has a floating, or variable, rate exposure.
Since much of Brazil's internal debt is linked to the exchange rate, domestic obligations have soared accordingly.
The news, last month, that the recession had officially ended a year ago seemed hollow in the light of the still dire jobless rate, with obligations and debts continuing to loom.
The assigned ratings reflect the district's higher than average debt burdens and large exposure to variable rate debt obligations.
Some borrowers are considering another short-term note called variable-rate demand obligations, which also have their rates reset daily or weekly.
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