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A big number from Verizon Verizon的大手笔 DEBT crisis? What debt crisis? The biggest corporate-bond issue ever was completed thisweek. Verizon Communications, an American telecoms group, issued a whopping $49 billionof bonds in order to finance the buy-out of Vodafones stake in its wireless operations. Thatshattered the previous record, Apples paltry $17 billion issue earlier this year. 债务危机?什么样的债务危机?史上最大的企业债券发行本周完成了。一家美国电信集团Verizon通讯为了支付沃达丰持有的无线业务股权买断费用，发行了高达490亿美元的债券。 这打破了此前的纪录，苹果在今年早些时候发行了现在看来微不足道的170亿美元的债券。 The scale of Verizons offering may be unprecedented, but its foray into the bond marketsis anything but. In the first eight months of this year $1.4 trillion of corporate bonds wereissued worldwide, according to Dealogic, a data provider, compared with $1.3 trillion in thesame period of 2012. Firms have been keen to lock in long-term financing at low yields,particularly since borrowing costs started rising after the Federal Reserve hinted in May atslowing its asset purchases. Verizon的发行规模可谓是前所未有的，但是这不是其首次尝试债券市场了。根据数据提供商Dealogic的数据，今年前8个月世界范围内有1.4万亿公司债券发行，2012年同期金额为1.3万亿。各公司一直热衷于以低收益率参与长期融资，尤其是自从美联储五月暗示放缓其资产购买之后，借贷成本开始上升。 | 
