triple-A credit rating

Analysts have been digging into records to see how Japanese bonds traded after it was stripped of its triple-A credit rating in 1998.

There is talk on European trading desks today that it would be the next country to lose its triple-A credit rating if the fund expands.

AIG was considered a weighty and utterly reliable market player, and like JP Morgan, it basked in the sun of a triple-A credit rating.

Mr Obama said the Republican approach might still lead to a downgrade of the country's triple-A credit rating.

other securities offer a much lower yield but a triple-A credit rating, because a lot of defaults would be needed to trigger losses.

Berkshire recently lost its cherished triple-A credit rating and its shares have slipped by 18% over the last 12 months.

Not only America's triple-A credit rating could be threatened; some point to consequences in foreign affairs and defence as well.

If the bond insurers lose their triple-A credit rating, the bonds and other instruments that they insure also would be downgraded.

France, fearful that rising bailout costs could jeopardize its own triple-A credit rating, dropped its objections.

Monday, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services put Pfizer's triple-A credit rating on watch for downgrade after news of the deal.

Black boxes again fell into disrepute and the cachet of a triple-A credit rating has diminished.

Bill Gross, the bond fund manager, has mused it will not be long before the US loses its triple A credit rating.

It benefits from net cash of $30 billion, twinned with a rare triple-A credit rating.

Even though it has a triple-A credit rating, Wells Fargo is paying up.

Now Mr Sarkozy lies awake each night worrying that France might lose its triple A credit rating.

Britain's triple-A credit rating seems assured, unlike France's (see article).

If we don't, for the first time ever, we could lose our country's Triple A credit rating.