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You see, we'd just been to the grocery store, and my mom refused to buy us the jar of Ovaltine that had the coupon for the Captain Midnight decoder ring in it.
This is definetly a movie that you would like to use a free rental coupon for.
A few days ago we got a coupon in the mail that said we can rent up to 3 movies for $0.99 each.So we went to the video store and I found this movie called The Shunned House.It looked like a pretty good movie from what the box said but i was sooo wrong.The movie was sooo boring that I fell asleep within minutes.The movie tries to scare you but it fails to.So if u see this movie at ur video store do NOT get it.I cant believe I wasted $0.99 on this piece of junk.
I rented this movie because I had a coupon for a free rental.
The final scene was nice...lot's of really good explosions and good action but that wasn't enough to make you not regret wasting a coupon on this rental.
Lucky break is one of those rare movies that basically went straight to DVD and one you rent if you've got a coupon from Blockbuster.
But Groupon is spreading that model to a much wider audience – not so much to coupon users, but instead to merchants offering coupons.
Taking the lead in October 2007, when it issued a $750 million Eurobond with an 8.5% coupon rate, Ghana earned the distinction of being the first Sub-Saharan country – other than South Africa – to issue bonds in 30 years.
By February 2013, these ten African economies had collectively raised $8.1 billion from their maiden sovereign-bond issues, with an average maturity of 11.2 years and an average coupon rate of 6.2%.
In June 2012, Gabon delayed the coupon payment on its $1 billion bond, pending the outcome of a legal dispute, and was on the verge of a default.
The answer is to emulate the response to sovereign-debt crises in Uruguay, Pakistan, Ukraine, and many other emerging-market economies, where orderly exchange of old debt for new debt had three features: an identical face value (so-called “par” bonds); a long maturity (20-30 years); and interest set well below the currently unsustainable market rates – and close to or below the original coupon.
Previous experience suggests that most hold-to-maturity investors would accept a par bond, while most mark-to-market investors would accept a discount bond with a higher coupon (that is, a bond with a lower face value) – an alternative that could be offered (and has been in the past) to such investors.
Creditors could be offered these par bonds, or a shorter-term bond with a higher coupon – but with debt principal marked down.
Last May, when Venezuela made a $5 billion private placement of ten-year bonds with a 6% coupon, it effectively had to give a 40% discount, leaving it with barely $3 billion.
The extra $2 billion that it will have to pay in ten years is the compensation that investors demand for the likelihood of default, in excess of the already hefty coupon.
The coupon on these bonds was actually 1.5 percentage points below sovereign bonds of similar maturity, which is also unusual, especially given that Rosneft currently is subject to Western sanctions.
It is about the coupon rate on the offering, 7.9%, which is considerably higher than most other plausible alternatives.
Changing the composition of the public debt, for instance issuing consols rather than bonds that pay a coupon, is often sufficient to lower the official deficit by a few decimal points, and this is only one in a finance minister's large black bag of tricks.
Given the low average coupon rate of asset-side long-term bonds, the upward shift of the yield curve will result in a loss for the BOJ (“negative seigniorage”), at least temporarily.
The main driver of the higher ex post real returns is the comparatively high coupon these sovereign bonds offer.
A €1 trillion ($1.1 trillion) issue carrying a coupon of 0.5% would cost €5 billion a year to service.
And Argentina’s debts, with their very high coupon rates, proved to be unsustainable.
Argentina’s existing debt carries an average coupon rate of 7%, which is roughly seven percentage points higher than the zero coupon paid by Germany on its 30-year government bonds, and roughly six points higher than the 1.2% coupon paid by the US Treasury.
Argentina has rightly noted that the 7% coupon rate would necessitate a default.
Few if any governments – not even the United States – could manage to service a 7% coupon rate in this economic environment.
Argentina creditors say that they need a 7% coupon, or even higher, because of the likelihood of default.
But they seem not to understand that if Argentina’s coupon is cut to near the US rate, then a default is not necessary.
The sky-high 7% coupon rate is a self-fulfilling prophecy: It makes default inevitable, whereas a lower interest rate would make it unnecessary.
But, rather than a coupon rate equal to the US Treasury rate, Argentina is offering an average 2.3% coupon rate, higher than the returns on Treasuries in its creditors’ portfolios.
There are details on grace periods and the time paths of coupon payments that should be negotiated, honed, and finalized in light of the grim and evolving economic realities.