Besides debt repayment obligations, AMR is likely to bear high interest costs as refinancing debt on favorable terms would be very challenging for the airline, given its history of poor operating profitability.
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Finally, the Bank of Japan's decision to raise interest rates has meant that banks will probably have to sell shares to cover losses from borrowers, who may become unable to bear the burden of higher interest payments as well as to meet increased interest bills to depositors.
Second, the greater the degree of influence the individual or firm exercises over the investment outcome (or alternatively, the greater the risk of harm such an individual or firm poses), the greater the degree of scrutiny that should be brought to bear and the less conflicts of interest should be tolerated.
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Second, America and a few countries cannot be expected to bear the burden of the fiscal and interest rate stimulus alone.
He understood that they were people of goodwill, and he could not bear to be impolite, but the benign interest of others was a burden.
On the other hand, bear markets also tend to coincide with rising interest rates whereas now, for all his tough talk, Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, shows little inclination to put rates up.
The strong volume on rallies and high open interest have turned at least one bear to the bull column, but only for now.
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Since interest paid to the Fed, the Social Security system and other government pension funds is effectively rebated to the Treasury, taxpayers currently bear only the burden of interest on 60% of this debt.
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Most of that modest decline is simply a function of lower interest rates, which have made debt easier to bear.
Agriculture enjoys neither the profitability nor the investor interest of medicine, so the resources brought to bear on the Human Genome Project are scarce in plant genetics.
These failures include outrageous costs which bear no resemblance to value provided, deeply embedded conflicts of interest, sustained underperformance of underlying investment vehicles, inadequate disclosure, inappropriate investment menus, defective plan design, insufficient participant education, and flawed default provisions.
With jobless and interest rates still low, it takes a dedicated bear to stick with a gloomy bet.
The Fed was in on the negotiations for JPMorgan's rescue buyout of Bear Stearns and has a vested interest in seeing it carried to completion.
Auto lending again has juiced that sector, and those low interest rates are lulling borrowers to take on whatever their credit can bear, but that jig ultimately will be up.
Interest on margin credit is next to nothing, an easy cross to bear.
But according to Inuit representatives at this meeting, the trading of polar bear parts represented a vital economic interest.
"Historically, Fed action and interest rate cuts have played an important bullish role in bringing past bear markets to an end, " says Stack.
And trying to eliminate conflicts of interest and trying to eliminate the situations where government taxpayer support or guarantees is going for them making profits for themselves -- I think that's -- that in the long run is in their interest because it restores public trust to financial institutions, and I hope they will bear that in mind.
Right now, he sees vast similarities between the bond market today and the low-interest rate world with high debt-to-GDP after World War II that led to a generational bear market in bonds.
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