Have you ever borrowed money? Of course you have! Whether we hit our parents up for a few bucks to buy candy as children or asked the bank for amortgage , most of us have borrowed money at some point in our lives.
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Interest rates have just about reached their theoretical limit. As of this writing, the most lucrative one-year certificate of deposit available pays 1.1%. Thirty-year mortgages are at around 3.62%, and dropping. Money is cheap right now.
Continue reading >>The chairman of Shuanghui International, which is paying $4.7bn for one of the US’s biggest pork producers, spent much of the past decade trying to engineer a management buyout of his Chinese group and separate it from state ownership.
Continue reading >>Hidili Industry International Development Ltd., a Chinese coal miner, reported rising debt- servicing costs yesterday, flagging concerns about borrowing levels in the nation as it clamps down on smokestack industries. Bond risk in Asia climbed.
Continue reading >>Chinese corporate borrowing will probably exceed that of U.S. companies within the next two years, according to Standard & Poor’s.
Continue reading >>A coupon bond makes a series of payments over its life, so fixed-income investors need a measure of the average maturity of the bond's promised cash flow to serve as a summary statistic of the effective maturity of the bond.
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