(n.) A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.
Example Sentences:
(1) About a third of those bondholders are ordinary Italians.
(2) Last Monday, INM negotiated a standstill agreement with its bondholders which gave the company another six weeks to repay a €200m debt.
(3) Private sector bondholders, many of them German banks who lent hand over fist to Greece in the runup to the crisis, were largely made good; workers have suffered wage cuts as the government struggles to make repayments to its bailout creditors.
(4) But de Jager said the French plan lets the banks off too lightly, and unless finance ministers impose bigger losses on them, Europe would be "converting private debt into public debt" by lending Greece more money from European taxpayers to pay back bondholders.
(5) "Forecasts suggest the stress tests may reveal a hole of 4 billion to 5 billion euros ($5.5 billion to $6.9 billion), a sum the government believes it can raise through its own cash reserves of 3.6 billion euros, by burning junior bondholders for some 500 million euros and, if necessary, tapping financial markets.
(6) The first stage in INM's restructuring, a debt-for-equity swap, came into effect earlier this month , leaving bondholders with 46% of the company, worth €122m.
(7) INM had already reached an agreement in principle with the group, known as the Ad Hoc Committee of Bondholders, involving a debt-for-equity swap, a rights issue and the continued raising of funds through an asset sell-off.
(8) The NAO said the decision helped save around £1.5bn in future interest payments and ensured these bondholders contributed to the costs of nationalisation.
(9) O'Brien's advisers believe bondholders can be persuaded to take a smaller stake in the business because they will be receiving stock in a company that has a greater chance of success as it will have retained one of its most prized businesses.
(10) In the earlier deal, corporate bondholders and PIBS holders were told to expect losses of about 50% but that has been rejected as too punitive.
(11) Good news: Germany and France have drawn up a sensible plan to ensure that funding and debt crises in the eurozone can be tackled more easily in future, mainly by forcing bondholders to shoulder their share of financial pain from 2013 onwards.
(12) This foresees a €100bn cut or 50% haircut in bondholders' holdings of Greek debt, topped up with €30bn of EU funding, to cut the country's €360bn debt to 120% of GDP by 2020.
(13) Sutherland said the board had considered all the options and agreed to commit £1bn of the Co-op group's funds to cover bad debts in return for a debt for equity swap by bondholders.
(14) Merkel told Greek television that the second rescue package, worth €109bn, might have to be renegotiated amid suggestions this would entail bondholders accepting "haircuts" – write-offs on the debts they are owed – of up to 50% rather than the 21% agreed in July.
(15) The hurdles that have to be jumped are high: there will be four separate votes of bondholders and preference shareholders, and the bank says that if any one of these doesn't succeed, the rescue will fail.
(16) As he issued an apology to customers for the string of scandals to hit the bank, Booker said he was confident the extra money would be found after discussions with shareholders, including the Co-operative Group and the bondholders which backed last year's £1.5bn fund raising.
(17) In June the Co-operative Group outlined plans to list shares in its bank for the first time in a complicated proposal under which bondholders were to take losses while the group would pour £1bn into the bank, some £500m through selling off insurance businesses and another £500m by issuing new bonds to bondholders.
(18) The presumption is that the looming threat of disaster will finally summon the political will and the economic patience to endure the grim years ahead, while Italy's bondholders are kept at bay by the European central bank's outright monetary transactions programme.
(19) CIT said most of its bondholders have agreed a prepackaged reorganisation plan which will reduce total debt by $10bn (£6.1bn) while allowing the company to continue to do business.
(20) While new EU rules mean governments can no longer bail out their banks, if MPS performs weakly in the stress test, the Italian government may be allowed to invoke so-called article 32 to stop some bondholders from incurring losses, said Kinmonth.
Stockholder
Definition:
(n.) One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company.
Example Sentences:
(1) Existing stockholders, including the two founders, are cutting the number of shares they are selling in the IPO.
(2) Companies could spread the wealth, either giving it to stockholders or pumping it into the economy – wouldn't that be a nice change from what we hear about the unevenness of the economy, and companies hoarding cash while households struggle?
(3) While Zuckerberg's deputies received new shares last year, Facebook's compensation committee decided not to award more to the chief executive because "his existing equity ownership position sufficiently aligns his interests with those of our stockholders".
(4) Motive scores (needs for Achievement, Affiliation, and Power) of the chief executive officers of the nation's 50 largest industrial firms were determined using content analysis of letters to stockholders contained in the firms' annual reports.
(5) Today's report comes at a time when our business has never been stronger and we continue to demonstrate strong operational excellence focused on returning maximum value to all of our stockholders.
(6) And throughout it all, too many in our national media ... their corporate owners ... and their stockholders ... act as silent enablers, if not complicit co-conspirators.
(7) Can the Trust show us the evidence that its negotiations as a stockholder of Shell, BP and the other fossil fuel companies are the best route towards the rapid reduction of carbon emissions?
(8) Jim Payne, MoPub chief executive, and other MoPub stockholders, $667m 14,791,464 shares The mobile advertising exchange was bought by Twitter in September in an all-shares deal.
(9) Richard Gonzalez, AbbVie’s chairman and chief executive, said: “Although the strategic rationale of combining our two companies remains strong, the agreed upon valuation is no longer supported as a result of the changes to the tax rules and we did not believe it was in the best interests of our stockholders to proceed.” Shire waived a requirement for AbbVie to give it three days’ notice before its board meeting so that the US company could make its position clear.
(10) The board is confident that continuing to execute its strategic plan will create significantly more value for the company and its stockholders and is superior to any proposal that 21st Century Fox is in a position to offer,” it said.
(11) Can the trust show us the evidence that its negotiations as a stockholder of Shell, BP and the other fossil fuel companies are the best route towards the rapid reduction of carbon emissions?
(12) That’s the center of a whole movement called “corporate governance” where stockholders try to get companies to run themselves better, or at least more profitably.
(13) "Political rights won't be violated but will resemble those of a small stockholder in a giant enterprise," he wrote.
(14) The question is whether James, his father, the company and its stockholders believe that is fair enough in the light of Ofcom's conclusions.
(15) That is so even though the voter is also the taxpayer, who also has yet another alias as the selling stockholder in this venture – and thus a powerful reason for wanting to know what is going on with their investment.
(16) "Today's report comes at a time when our business has never been stronger and we continue to demonstrate strong operational excellence focused on returning maximum value to all of our stockholders.
(17) Lagardère, a conglomerate whose interests span publishing and airport retail, released a statement criticising the terms of the tie-up, in which EADS shareholders will emerge with 60% of the business while BAE stockholders take 40%.
(18) Still, there remains a question of whether the offshore tax holiday was ever really a plausible corporate problem, or one hyped by CEOs as an excuse to inflate their company's coffers and their stockholders' wallets rather than invest in new initiatives.
(19) "The founders of the Ponzi Victims Coalition are dedicated to pursuing legislative and litigative actions to mitigate the devastating effects these schemes have had upon fundholders, pensioners, stockholders, and all investors – direct and indirect – in these tainted investment instruments," it says.
(20) The company responded that it would oppose the resolution, which it said is not in the best interest of its stockholders, according to Natasha Lamb, Arjuna Capital’s director of equity research and shareholder engagement.