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Under the plan, U.S. banks would swap their Mexican debts at a markdown of as much as 50% for new bonds that pay a somewhat higher interest rate. Despite the loss that banks would take in the trade, the new Mexican paper would be considered more secure and negotiable than the old debts. Reason: before issu bonds that would be worth $10 billion when they mature in 20 years. The U.S. bonds would then serve as collateral for the new Mexican paper. While the proposal may be a breakthrough in the debt standoff, the $10 billion in loan relief would...
...main selling point of the 76-year-old Filen's Basement is its "automatic markdown policy filen's buys overstock and irregulars form what it calls grit and glamorous stores, and then resells it at discount determined by a now famous formula. If the item sits on the rack for f12 days its initial prose will be cut by 25 percent. After six more days, the price is reduced 50 percent with in another six 75 percent. And if a piece of clothing doesn't sell by 30 days after it first hits the floor, Filen's gives...
...ministers hope to avoid repeating their desperate move of March 1983, when they were forced to make the first and only price cut in OPEC'S history, a markdown of its benchmark Arab Light crude by $5 per bbl., to $29. Since then, energy conservation and sluggish world economic growth have helped push oil prices even lower, despite OPEC's self-imposed production limit of 17.5 million bbl. a day. Ministers hinted last week that they might reduce their output to about 16 million bbl. a day. By comparison, the group's daily production...
...markdown mania took off as suddenly as a price war on computers or toasters. But the merchandise that went on sale was crude oil. Early last week Norway's state oil company triggered a chain reaction among petroleum exporters by offering its $30-per-bbl. North Sea crude for $28.50. Two days later Britain, a much larger producer, followed suit with a $1.35 cut on its Brent crude, to $28.65. For oil exporters the events were ominously familiar. When Norway and Britain officially discounted their oil in February 1983, the move forced the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...
...aggravated the world's surplus of oil and triggered a dramatic slide in prices. The situation again threatens OPEC's power to control the cost of crude. In March 1983, the countries were forced to make their first price cut in history, a $5-per-bbl. markdown...