Distressed-Debt Investors Seek Stocks as Debt Bubble Looms, Survey Shows

Distressed-debt investors plan to focus more on riskier, equity-linked securities as a “bubble” in the leveraged-loan and junk-bond markets is poised to burst as soon as this year, according to a survey of 100 asset managers and traders.

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Euro Zone Debt Crisis Threatens to Derail Euro in 2011

The European sovereign debt crisis of 2010 appears to be geared up to spill over in 2011. Initial concerns led to the widening of bond yields of European Union members such as Greece and Ireland, and contagion threatens to cause further turmoil in the year ahead.

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Debt consolidation – How it can help you to get out of debt?

Handling debt has become the biggest problem in today's economy as countries have still not totally recovered from the economic downturn of 2007. The situation is not different in U.S. As per Bureau of the Public Debt, national debt has increased by $1.65 in this year.

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Chancellor Addresses UK's Dreadful Debt, Saves Economy – Stephen …

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne announced yesterday in the Comprehensive Spending Review, that the UK had a structural budget deficit of at £109Bn. The largest in Europe. Debt interest payments this year would ...

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Debt advisers forecast World Cup aftermath

A debt counseling center has voiced concerns that football gambling during the World Cup may leave more people in debt despite a falling-off in cases in the first half of the year.

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Federal debt reaching alarming rate, congressional budget officer warns

The federal debt will reach 62 percent of the nation's economic output this year - the highest level since shortly after World War II.

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Company-Government Spread Widens as Banks Sell Debt

Jan. 18 -- The cost to borrow in the corporate bond market is rising for the first time since November as Barclays Plc, Lloyds Banking Group Plc and more than a dozen other European banks sell record amounts of fixed-income securities to refinance $2 trillion of debt due this year.

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Debt limit: What’s the fuss?

The Senate will act to raise the country's debt limit on Thursday before closing shop for the year. That's the plan anyway.

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Saudi Banks to Make Enough Provisions for Saad, Algosaibi Debt

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Distressed-Debt Deals Said to Reach $84.4 Billion – DealBook Blog …

The total value of distressed- debt deals, where creditors use their debt positions to take ownership of troubled companies, has touched $84.4 billion this year, The Wall Street Journal said, at a pace close to double that of 2008.

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