How to Use commercial paper in a Sentence

commercial paper

noun

• 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
• 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
• The programs worked as the exodus from money markets stopped and the commercial paper market calmed down.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 7 Dec. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Access to commercial paper froze when the pandemic first roiled markets, forcing the Fed and the European Central Bank to step in to stabilize it.
  — Abhinav Ramnarayan, Bloomberg.com, 9 Feb. 2022
• Money market funds are significant buyers of a short-term form of debt known as commercial paper.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 7 Dec. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Most money funds never buy commercial paper rated below the top rung of investment grade.
  — Katy Burne, WSJ, 10 July 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Hershey will finance the transactions with cash on hand and commercial paper, an unsecured short-term debt instrument, Mr. Voskuil said.
  — Nina Trentmann, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2021
• 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
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 4 Apr. 2020
• In normal times, investments in money-market funds and commercial paper are considered nearly as safe as cash.
  — Paul Kiernan, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
• Essentially, Brex hopes to invest customers’ money in US Treasuries and low-risk commercial paper.
  — Matthew De Silva, Quartz, 3 Oct. 2019
• There is just too much to summarize here, but apparently its assets are in Chinese commercial paper and, uh, Bitcoin, which could be a problem if everybody starts to pull their money at once.
  — Kevin T. Dugan, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2021
• Many of the money-market funds are invested largely in bank certificates of deposits, commercial paper and government debt.
  — WSJ, 25 Sep. 2017
• Indeed, some banks in these countries were able to borrow more cheaply (via commercial paper or certificates of deposit) than their American peers, according to the authors.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2020
• Then Garcia read about a Taiwanese company making commercial paper out of stone and inspiration struck.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 1 Oct. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Last month, Tether revealed that about a quarter of its reserves, or $20 billion, consisted of commercial paper, down $4 billion from February.
  — New York Times, 13 June 2022
• The Federal Reserve launched a program to provide short-term loans to businesses in commercial paper markets, while White House officials and lawmakers scrambled for ideas to get funds into the private...
  — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024