Word: bond
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...odds of a GM deal with bondholders may be more bleak. As part of its offer to bondholders, presented Monday, GM is offering to exchange 225 common shares for each $1,000 of principal amount of bonds. The offer covers $27.5 billion of bonds, and based on the recent price of GM stock would result in bondholders receiving less than 40% of a bond's original face value. GM's chief executive Fritz Henderson described the terms of the offer as "stern." For the swap to take place 90% of the bondholders must accept the offer. If that percentage...
...problem. That is the character.” With “Rudo y Cursi”—which is slated for limited release in the United States on May 8th—Cuarón hopes to show the multiple layers of Mexican society through the bond between Beto and Tato. “Ultimately, the main theme of this movie is brotherhood, and I think American audiences will relate to this,” he said. “Nothing is as endearing as brotherhood.” —Staff writer Alec E. Jones...
...aughts have been a boom decade for the revival of seemingly terminal franchises. Batman Begins redeemed the Caped Crusader from the hell of Batman & Robin. Casino Royale restored a vividness to James Bond that I wouldn't have believed possible after Die Another Day. The new Battlestar Galactica was a triumph. Superman Returns ... well, you can't blame them for trying...
...shadow-banking system is now gone or in hibernation. Two of its leading institutions, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, have become commercial banks. With fewer competitors, banks have a lot more pricing power, while Federal Reserve lending programs and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) guarantees of deposits and bank-bond issues have sharply lowered funding costs. Net interest margins appear to be turning the corner, and as a result, it is not inconceivable that banks will be able to steadily earn their way out of their problems over the next few years...
Critics say Vargas made a backroom deal with Chávez's government to handle some of the revolution's murkier financial transactions, such as more than $1 billion in Argentine bond swaps, or the handling of hard currency between Venezuela's official exchange rate of about 2.15 bolivares to the U.S. dollar and the quasi-legal black-market rate of almost six to the dollar. Vargas has long denied the accusation, insisting he's not part of the "boli-bourgeoisie" (named for Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution) that got rich cozying up to Chávez while...