Russell Solomon, a senior vice president at Moody's Investors Service, isn't thrilled with the debt-funded dividends.
In a challenge to Chancellor George Osborne's central argument, Mr Cable says debt-funded capital spending "would not undermine the central objective of reducing the structural deficit and may assist in reviving growth".
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Funded debt has increased from 0.8% of capital funds in 2010, to 20.5% of capital funds in 2011.
When an announcement is made find out if share repurchases will be funded with debt or cash.
Arris said the cash portion of the deal will be funded through debt financing commitments from Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Royal Bank of Canada.
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These rates are an important metric given the high capital expenditure that the firm incurs in constructing these rigs, much of which is funded by debt.
The cash portion of the consideration to be received by Google at closing will be funded through debt financing commitments from Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Royal Bank of Canada.
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The difference between 2000 and now, he said, is that current deals are being paid for in cash or funded with debt, as opposed to transactions using overvalued stock in profitless New Economy companies.
Meanwhile, deficits turn into increasing levels of sovereign debt that can only be funded by financial repression.
The cash portion of the consideration was funded through syndicated debt financing and the sale by ARRIS of 10.6 million ARRIS shares to Comcast Corporation.
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Spending for 2013 will be 23% of GDP up from 20% historical levels, and revenues will be 18% creating a 5% of GDP deficit to be funded with increased debt.
Much mining development in Australia is funded with equity, not debt, and is consequently not as financially stressed as you might think.
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Prosper, which has nearly one million members and boasts an estimated annual return of 10.4 percent, says 54 percent of funded loans are used for debt consolidation.
He figures a deal funded with 40% equity and 60% debt would offer a potential buyer a return of close to 40%, or maybe better.
Certainly, recent government spending (unfortunately funded in part with trillions of dollars of debt) has helped the economy maintain a foothold and start to grow.
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And in the past a typical PFI deal would be funded to the tune of 90% by debt, but that debt proportion will fall to 80%.
With the transition to the accounts funded entirely by reduced government spending, there would be no transition debt at all.
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If Congress imposes a hard budget constraint on itself by refusing to raise the debt ceiling and establishes Social Security and interest on the debt as priority must-pays out of revenues before any other programs may be funded, it would require total other, non-priority spending to be reduced not quite one-third on average during the next ten years.
In recent months some of the leading well funded charities have begun to realise that the essentially unfunded arguments of our Centre for Accountability and Debt Relief can do more to help the poor in many of these over borrowed and criminally exploited nations.
GM, which plans to begin promoting its relisting on the stock exchange to investors this week, wiped out billions of dollars in debt, laid off thousands of employees and jettisoned money-losing brands during its U.S.-funded reorganization last year.
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