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Although they tended to buy AAA-rated paper, that designation is not as reliable as it used to be, as the credit crunch has shown.

If America actually loses its AAA, some investors who are obliged to own only AAA-rated paper might have to sell.

Now that France has lost its AAA credit-rating, Germany is left as the only large AAA-rated country in the eurozone.

As an AAA-rated country, the UK has traditionally scored well on both counts, but is now performing poorly on the second.

The rest would often have their bonds guaranteed by AAA-rated bond-insurance companies, helping buyers sidestep painful due diligence.

S& P has negative outlook assessments on more than half of the continent's biggest banks, with only Dutch group Rabobank now AAA rated.

AAA-rated corporate issues now account for a historically low proportion of debt outstanding.

The model looks at the spread between the non-risk-adjusted DDM expected return and AAA-rated corporate bonds.

The collateral accepted by the Term Securities Lending Facility was expanded to include all AAA-rated asset-backed securities.

The mortgage holdings are in high-credit-score, low loan-to-value programmes, and virtually the entire investment portfolio is AAA rated.

This helps explain why the new Fed facility allows primary dealers to pledge AAA -rated mortgage securities as collateral for borrowings.

They are needed for the stability of the eurozone, whose primary beneficiaries are its AAA rated donor members.

repos providing hkd against exchange fund paper or , subject to satisfactory delivery , against us treasuries and other aaa rated usd paper.

Nor could such mortgages have been bundled into securitizations financed largely by AAA-rated investments.

This is one of the highest of any AAA-rated country.

One banker jokes that AAA-rated Johnson & Johnson is "not quite as liquid" .

Faced with strong external demand for AAA-rated assets, the financial system got creative.

Of the six AAA-rated countries in the euro zone, France looks the shakiest (see chart).

Many of the write-downs related to "super senior" AAA-rated securities, indicating even the best structured products are not very good.

By notation vote completed on March 20, AAA-rated commercial MBS were added to the list of acceptable collateral.

More than half of the fund's assets are AAA-rated, the highest credit rating assigned to securities?

France is by far the most vulnerable of the zone's six AAA-rated countries.

Or, if even that is impossible, could the six AAA-rated members of the euro zone bind themselves together?

According to Moody's there are only seven in the elite club of AAA rated companies in the US.