How to Use commercial paper in a Sentence

commercial paper

noun
  • This debt, known as commercial paper, can have terms as short as a single night.
    — Konrad Putzier, WSJ, 9 July 2019
  • The news about commercial paper funding on its face sounds wonky.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 18 Mar. 2020
  • In times of stress, banks, which broker commercial paper deals, don’t want to step in and help.
    — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 19 July 2021
  • Prime money funds haven’t made their biggest cuts in holdings of commercial paper.
    — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The one-week financial commercial paper rate followed nearly the same path.
    — Norbert Michel, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Money market funds are significant buyers of a short-term form of debt known as commercial paper.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The programs worked as the exodus from money markets stopped and the commercial paper market calmed down.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Most money funds never buy commercial paper rated below the top rung of investment grade.
    — Katy Burne, WSJ, 10 July 2017
  • That makes sense because commercial paper, while hardly far out on the risk curve, lacks the assurance that Treasury bonds boast.
    — Larry Light, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2023
  • However, some companies are deciding to hold on and tap the commercial paper or term loan markets instead, bankers said.
    — Nina Trentmann, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The company is reducing its reliance on short-term commercial paper due to the increase in financing costs.
    — Nina Trentmann, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2023
  • In normal times, investments in money-market funds and commercial paper are considered nearly as safe as cash.
    — Paul Kiernan, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
  • In addition, the central bank last week raised limits on how much commercial paper brokerages could sell, opening up a bigger channel for banks to raise funds.
    — WSJ, 26 June 2019
  • Only banks should be allowed to issue money market mutual funds, commercial paper, and repos.
    — Fortune, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Such sales could have depressed the commercial paper market and triggered even more redemptions as well as weakening confidence in the money funds.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Yet Culp has also talked about running the company with a higher cash balance in order to reduce its reliance on commercial paper.
    — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Three-month financial commercial paper rates have risen by about 45 basis point this year, while the one-month maturity increased a fraction of that.
    — Liz McCormick, Bloomberg.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • As consumers rush to buy toilet paper, Wall Street is wondering what's going to happen with commercial paper.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Many of the money-market funds are invested largely in bank certificates of deposits, commercial paper and government debt.
    — WSJ, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin, disclosed a reserves breakdown that showed a large portion in unspecified commercial paper.
    — Patrick McHale and Yueqi Yang Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2021
  • Then Garcia read about a Taiwanese company making commercial paper out of stone and inspiration struck.
    — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Tether has been under scrutiny since at least last July, after authorities became alarmed by the high amount of commercial paper held as reserves.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 May 2022
  • The stablecoins maintain their value by holding reserves of commercial paper or treasuries, according to Bloomberg.
    — Fortune, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The imbalance is there because nobody is using the commercial paper when everyone stayed home, thus driving up use of the consumer product, Oremus wrote.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 4 Apr. 2020
  • The evolution of prime Prime money market funds give investors a little more risk exposure by holding some corporate commercial paper.
    — Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Going forward, the company plans to rely on commercial paper if needed, finance chief Luca Zaramella said.
    — Nina Trentmann, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • In 2018, the district started a commercial paper program -- which has allowed the district short-term financing to start projects before the issuance of bonds.
    — Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 21 June 2019
  • There’s also the fragility of commercial paper, where maturities typically range from a few days to a few months, which was exposed in the turmoil in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak.
    — Abhinav Ramnarayan, Bloomberg.com, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The yields paid by money market funds at the moment are below those of Treasury bills and corporate bonds or commercial paper, but with rates fluctuating, the funds have a great advantage.
    — New York Times, 12 June 2022
  • As part of its legal settlement Tether disclosed more detail of its assets, showing a big exposure to commercial paper, a form of short-term lending to companies.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 27 May 2021

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