credit-ratings

He cautions that you should purchase annuities only from companies with a strong financial position and solid credit ratings.

With the U. S. flirting with default and a credit-ratings downgrade, investors are once again in uncharted waters.

In regulatory news, the U. S. Treasury Department sent to Congress a draft bill that would curb the power of credit ratings agencies.

And it is under pressure from the credit-ratings agencies to send a strong message of its determination to get a grip on public finances.

Investors might be tempted by the fat yields on so-called junk bonds, issued by companies with credit ratings below BBB.

Like the big two, Chile, Colombia, Panama and Peru have investment-grade credit ratings, and all four are growing fast.

Uncritical acceptance of credit ratings by purchasers of these toxic assets has led to huge losses.

Along with stock market investors, the credit ratings agencies have had a rough decade.

They could do this only with the blessing of credit-ratings agencies, which made a profitable business out of rating these securities.

The lack of a pension fix has led to downgrades of Illinois credit ratings. Cheryl Corley, NPR News.

These SOEs often enjoy monopoly in their sectors and favorable conditions in an industry and enjoy quasi-government credit ratings.

Each of the big three credit-ratings agencies reaffirmed France's AAA status last week, and none has said it expects an imminent downgrade.

"There are longer-term pressures on the rating, that's very clear, " said Steven Hess, lead analyst for the U. S. credit ratings agency.

The nation's three dominant credit-ratings providers have made an urgent new request of their clients: Please don't use our credit ratings.

By grouping firms with equal credit ratings, the number of model parameters can be reduced.

The international rating agency Capital Intelligence lowered Bahrain's credit ratings on Wednesday, describing the outlook as "negative" .

Though the agency lowered its outlook to negative, it affirmed its "AAA" long-term and "A-1 " short-term sovereign credit ratings.

Greece, Spain and Portugal have already seen their credit ratings cut due to the impact of recession and the credit crisis on state coffers.

Any further increase in the EFSF could begin to negatively impact the credit ratings of the core members backing the fund.

Finally, this paper uses credit ratings of listed companies to explain some related issues of the short-term financing bonds.

They argue this government mandate interferes with the free market and encourages undue investor reliance on credit ratings.

But moves to limit the independence of credit ratings would be counter-productive.

The continual forcasting errors had significant deleterious impact on Motorola's credit ratings and relationships.

But the commission backed away from recommending an outright ban on providing credit ratings for countries seeking a bail-out.

No wonder Australia's Big Four banks are among the world's best performers, with elite AA credit ratings.

Other evidence suggests that various people knew that the deal's triple-A credit ratings were dubious.

Investors depend on credit ratings, given municipal borrowers' lack of transparency.

Investors should be acutely aware of this even without an extra label on credit ratings to remind them.

Credit Ratings Agencies that provide public ratings should be registered.

Rules governing the fixed income securities that banks and institutional investors can hold, and in what amounts, rely on credit ratings.

Japan, Canada and Australia, among others, have suffered the ignominy of being downgraded from top credit ratings.

GOVERNMENTS in the rich world are announcing record-breaking deficits and their credit ratings are under threat.

With luck they would have met their pledge to protect Britain's credit ratings and avert a steep rise in interest rates.

Credit ratings agencies withheld comment pending details of the scheme.

The euro came under more pressure after Fitch, a credit-ratings agency, downgraded its assessment of Portugal's debt.

But they are being poisoned by the toxic public finances, not least because sovereign-debt downgrades hurt their own credit ratings.

Instead, they may simply be constrained by credit ratings and their investment guidelines.

That's well above the typical corporate bond rate, but these are companies that have less than stellar credit ratings.

Two American icons, General Electric and Berkshire Hathaway, lost their triple-A credit ratings.

the interest rate on short-term loans that banks charge their commercial customers with high credit ratings.

How can people with poor credit ratings get approved for a credit card?

Credit ratings agency Fitch lowered its ratings on Cadbury and Kraft, but both remain investment-grade at BBB-.

Their credit ratings have improved, even as America and several euro members have suffered rating cuts.

The moves came amid further evidence that securities with triple-A credit ratings were not as creditworthy as thought.

Mainly reflected in the high financing costs, risks, relatively poor credit, low credit ratings given to SMEs.

Lower credit ratings will constrain the ability of governments to support their economies.

The continual forcasing errors had significant deleterious impact on Motorola's credit ratings and relationships.

There is also the problem that higher debt ratios cause credit ratings to be lowered, creating a further rise in interest costs.

This means that there is a big gap between the credit ratings of the Asian issuers and the risk appetite of the Asian investors.

Among other things, they say that only fools would buy corporate bonds based on nothing more than their credit ratings.

They also want closer scrutiny of how credit ratings are applied to those types of fund.

It's no surprise that they also tend to have poor credit ratings.

an organization that provides businesses with credit ratings of other firms.

Rich, or overvalued bonds, have lower yields than bonds with similar terms and credit ratings.

Some of the worst abuses in securitisation stemmed from the use of credit ratings.

With default rates still high, banks are demanding better credit ratings and larger down-payments than many first-time buyers can manage.

Availability guarantee credit ratings high.

Then worries about credit ratings led some nations, such as the U. K. , to slash budgets quickly.

But it is clear it wants banks and credit ratings agencies to become much more transparent.

Even folks with good credit-ratings scores are no longer immune from adverse actions from their card issuers.

Brazil, Indonesia, Turkey and Peru have all had their credit ratings upgraded this year.

Credit ratings agencies said they would monitor Dubai closely in case the situation deteriorated.

In the past, sellers typically sought ironclad agreements that weren't contingent on bank financing or buyer credit ratings.

The decline in credit ratings has been remorseless over the past couple of decades.

Many now sit in complex products with the same questionable credit ratings.

Batch applications are responsible for business services like calculating credit ratings, applying interest calculations, and so on.

In response to UBS's news, all three major ratings companies cut their credit ratings on UBS.

S&P has downgraded its outlook on Japan's longterm credit ratings to negative from stable.

Rising national debts would put credit ratings under strain.

There are still many disparities between our credit rating system and the developed foreign credit ratings system.

This year's financial-reform law scales back, but doesn't eliminate, the role of credit ratings in regulation.

After the decision tree is well tested and adjusted, it can be strong enough and suitable in the use for credit ratings.

'If China wants a bond market, it needs to develop credit ratings, ' Ms. Wu said.

This month has been the busiest July on record for sales by U. S. companies with junk-credit ratings.

In the past five years universities in Britain, Japan, Spain and Canada have also asked for credit ratings.

Today, 19 sub-Saharan African governments have recognised credit ratings.

The issuers to date all boast investment-grade credit ratings.

Portugal and Spain have also had their credit ratings reduced.

It is the wider risk to the eurozone members' sovereign credit ratings.

What is the appropriate role of independent credit ratings in the financial system?

This being so, weaker borrowers must fulfil the role, with dire results for their credit ratings.

Still, it took until 2002 and 2003 for Australia to recover the top credit ratings from Moody's and S& P.

This may explain why the big four banks have not needed a government bail-out and have retained high credit ratings.

Wouldn't conflicts be eliminated if investors paid for credit ratings?

In the past 20 years, Canada, Denmark, Finland and Sweden lost and regained their AAA sovereign-credit ratings.

Standard & Poors, the credit ratings agency, warned last week that problem loans could reach as high as 38 per cent.

At the same time the desire for high credit ratings was going out of fashion.

Their credit ratings dropped, which meant issuers were less willing to buy insurance from them.

Buyers with below average credit ratings found it increasingly hard to borrow to buy cars, new or used.

'We're waiting to see what the final proposal is, ' Deven Sharma, the credit-ratings firm's president, told a House subcommittee.

The low credit ratings given to Asian bond issuers are inhibiting the development of the debt market in Asia.

There is no space, for example, for our groundbreaking reporting on the credit ratings agencies and the failure of computer modelling.

Other, more microeconomic changes are also likely, in the workings of the credit ratings agencies, for example.

Is it true your company actually targets people with bad credit ratings?

Most investors were happy to buy products such as CDOs because they trusted the value of credit ratings.

Hong Kong's can shed its inferiority complex with Singapore when it comes to credit ratings.

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