CONOCO WILL LAUNCH 500 MILLION EURO COMMERCIAL PAPER PROGRAM

Hart's Petroleum Finance Week;  July 10, 2000 ;     163 words ......to launch a 500 million Euro commercial paper program during July. The...Notes. The multi-currency Euro commercial paper program is designed to complement...Markets will be dealers of the Euro commercial paper. ING Barings/BBL will act...

The commercial paper market: Who's minding the shop?

Regional Economist;  April 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......markets by defaulting on $17 million in commercial paper. By the end of February, the amount...60 percent of Mercury's outstanding commercial paper and 30 percent of its outstanding...perhaps on the scale of the $82 million commercial paper default by Penn Central Railroad some...

JP Morgan moves towards same-day commercial paper settlement.

Financial News;  July 30, 2002 ;     227 words ......STP) to the commercial paper market by...its first Euro Commercial Paper issue via...issues of Euro Commercial Papers and...the Euro Commercial Paper market including...trillion) commercial paper market.

Commercial paper rating models.

Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics;  September 22, 1990 ;     700+ words ......that the process of rating commercial paper must be viewed as outside...ratings. The importance of commercial paper as a financing tool and the...research in this area. The commercial paper market has grown from $130...begin to sell and underwrite commercial paper, the ...

Petrofina 'F-1' Commercial Paper Affirmed By Fitch - Fitch Financial Wire...

PR Newswire;  September 4, 1997 ;     463 words ......Inc.'s (PDI) 'F-1' U.S. commercial paper rating is affirmed by Fitch...is also affirmed for the Euro commercial paper issued by Petrofina International...paper and $110 million of Euro commercial paper was recently outstanding...

Commercial paper: friend or foe? (Cover Story)

ABA Banking Journal;  December 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ......years, the story often begins with commercial paper. The saga of how large, highly rated...is well known. The growth in use of commercial paper--short-term corporate IOUs-- reshaped...some banks came to play a role in commercial paper, ranging from privately placing some...

Commercial paper market suffering.(Business)

The Virginian Pilot;  August 17, 2007 ;     406 words ......emerging but serious troubles in the commercial paper market, which thousands of companies...companies such as Countrywide raise money. Commercial paper is a broad term that refers to bonds...time, often 30 days. About half of commercial paper is secured by collateral such as ...

Why has the nonfinancial commercial paper market shrunk recently?(Industry...

Economic Review (Kansas City);  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......volume of nonfinancial commercial paper outstanding peaked in the...the past, the volume of commercial paper outstanding tended to increase...early stages of recessions. Commercial paper is an important source...

Banks: The backbone of the commercial paper market

Regional Economist;  January 1, 1996 ;     517 words ...The commercial paper market offers a good example of...adverse selection problems.(1) Commercial paper is an unsecured, short-term promissory...firms, obtaining financing with commercial paper is often cheaper than bank loans...

Taming commercial paper tigersAROUND THE MARKETS

International Herald Tribune;  June 25, 2002 ;     467 words ......happening now in Europe is via commercial paper, which cuts out the banks...people lend money to companies. Commercial paper is the shortest maturity in...enough credit rating can use commercial paper instead of short-term bank...

Market looks to Fed as commercial paper falls; Rate cut at Sept. 18...

Pensions & Investments;  September 17, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Isabelle Clary As outstanding commercial paper experienced its greatest monthly drop...funds rate by 50 basis points. The commercial paper market remains under pressure,'' said...enough, could make matters worse for commercial paper because it would be such a disappointment...

Fed to buy commercial paper.(Inside Track)(Brief article)

The New American;  October 27, 2008 ;     258 words ......under which it will buy billions in commercial paper--short-term debt instruments--in order...three-month unsecured and asset-backed commercial paper directly from eligible companies...The new Fed entity will be named the Commercial Paper Funding Facility (CPFF). According...

BMA acts on commercial paper.

Financial News;  September 6, 2002 ;     331 words ......Market Association has launched a new model global commercial paper agreement that will promote consistency in the European...Clifford Chance. John Ford, chairman of the Ipma euro commercial paper committee, says: This new document should make access to both the US and euro ...

Eastman to issue commercial paper over Internet.

M2 Presswire;  April 3, 2001 ;     343 words ......2001-EASTMAN CHEMICAL: Eastman to issue commercial paper over Internet (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...today announced it is now issuing commercial paper through the Internet-based platform...is the first non-direct issuer of commercial paper to use the platform. In addition to...

S&P Lowers Apex Funding Commercial Paper Rating, Off Watch.

PR Newswire;  November 4, 1998 ;     234 words ......Standard & Poor's today lowered its commercial paper on Apex Funding Corp. to 'A-2' from...Standard & Poor's affirmed its 'A-1' commercial paper rating on Broadway Capital Corp. The...creates a rating dependency for the commercial paper conduit. Broadway Capital's ...