Leverage
This is the ratio between funds borrowed for investment and the personal funds or equity Equity The capital put into an enterprise by the shareholders. Not to be confused with ’hard capital’ or ’unsecured debt’. that backs them up. A company may have borrowed much more than its capitalized value, in which case it is said to be ’highly leveraged’. The more highly a company is leveraged, the higher the risk associated with lending to the company; but higher also are the possible profits that it may realise as compared with its own value.
- ABS / Asset backed security
- Asset
- Balance of payments
- Balance
- Bank for International Settlements / BIS
- Banker’s guarantee
- Bond market
- Bond
- CDO / Collateralized Debt Obligations
- CDS / Credit Default Swaps
- Central Bank
- CFTC / Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Chicago Boys
- CLO / Collateralized Loan Obligation
- CMBS / Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities
- Collateral
- Commodities
- Common goods
- Corporate bonds
- Credit derivative
- Debt refinancing
- Debt rescheduling
- Debt service
- Debt stock
- Deposit or commercial bank
- Derivatives
- Devaluation
- EBA / European Banking Authority
- ECB / European Central Bank
- Emergency Liquidity Assistance / ELA
- Equity
- ESM / European Stability Mechanism
- EURIBOR / Euro Interbank Offered Rate
- Export Credit Agency
- FED / Federal Reserve
- Financial contracts
- Financial instruments
- Financial market
- Financial proceeds
- Financial securities
- Food crops
- FSB / Financial Stability Board
- Futures market
- Futures
- G20
- G8
- GDP / Gross Domestic Product
- Genetically Modified Organisms / GMO
- Goodwill
- Government debt
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