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an evaluation by a rating company of the probability that a particular bond issue will default
the bonds of highest quality are said to have bond ratings of AAA
How To Use bond rating In A Sentence
- Equities faced pressure from a stronger U.S. dollar after Dubai's unresolved debt problems and Fitch Ratings' downgrade of Greece's bond rating dented risk appetite.
- It is going to cost them not only in their bond rating but in the distraction from the major concerns which Californians have.
- In a letter to the Turnpike received Wednesday, UBS Securities said a Turnpike insurer's bond rating has fallen so much that UBS can terminate a so-called swaption agreement made in Business - BostonHerald.com
- Although the agency didn't mention any risks to its bond rating in its statement, Governors Andrew Cuomo of New York and Chris Christie of New Jersey, who share oversight of the bi- state agency, released a joint statement in which they said agency officials may have such worries. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
- 'I question whether private enterprise should be in this business [of rating sovereign debt], ' Jules Kroll, chairman and chief executive of Kroll Bond Rating Agency, told the House hearing.
- Both companies have had their bond ratings reduced to one step above junk status.
- Although the agency didn't mention any risks to its bond rating in its statement, Governors Andrew Cuomo of New York and Chris Christie of New Jersey, who share oversight of the bi- state agency, released a joint statement in which they said agency officials may have such worries. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
- California has some of the highest tax rates in the country, the worst bond rating and a multitude of nettlesome regulations. California Fleeing
- the bonds of highest quality are said to have bond ratings of AAA
- In a letter to the turnpike received Wednesday, UBS Securities said a turnpike insurer's bond rating has fallen so much that UBS can terminate a so-called swaption agreement made in 2001 and claim money it would have made over the remainder in the deal. Nashuatelegraph.com local, state, business and sports news