Bonds rated C or D should be avoided, as they are considered unsafe.
Not exact matches
The Fed can raise
rates, but borrowing costs may not changes b /
c the MARKET determines
bond yields.
Currently, some junk
bonds with triple -
C ratings are yielding under 6 %.
This implies that the
rate that DB had to pay to attract deposits is equivalent to a triple -
C rated credit (although the 10 - yr junk
bond rates for double - B
rated bonds are around 5.5 %, keep in mind that DB is paying 5 % for 3 - month money).
Moody's data shows that
bonds rated Ba had a 1.17 % probability of defaulting within a year, whereas more speculative
bonds rated Caa —
C, had a one - year default probability of more than 17 %.
Plenty of investment - grade credit
bonds suspended coupon payments in the Depression, transiting directly from A to D
rating without even making a pit stop at a
C junk
rating.
Spreads on the lowest quality segment of the «junk»
bond category, «
C»
rated bonds, have narrowed by an extraordinary 30 percentage points since late 2001, to around 5.5 percentage points.
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The
bond rating scale goes down from there to B's and
C's which are considered less secure and a higher risk.
The bubble was a combination of (a) teaser
rates on option ARMs which were like financial time bombs, (b) liar loans in which the rules of good mortgage underwriting (20 % down, 28/36 ratios) went out the window, (
C) people at
rating agencies who decided that if one pools enough junk loans into one
bond, it's magically AAA, and (D) Credit default swaps which encouraged these bad loans, and when they collapsed a number of people walked away with billions of dollars.
Choice F is the difference between the interest
rates of Treasury
Bonds and commercial paper (T.Bond -
C.
Our investigation of Growth - Value Switching based on Algorithm D (Treasury
Bond Interest
Rates) puts Algorithm F's (T.Bonds -
C.
Non-investment grade
bonds or «junk
bonds» usually carry
ratings of «BB +» to «D» (Baa1 to
C for Moody's) and even «not
rated.»
Triple -
C rated bonds, the lowest junk tier, sold at 42.6 cents on the dollar at the beginning of last year.
He will, however, dip into choppier, triple -
C -
rated bonds when he thinks they have been unfairly hammered.
Some of the options for affecting one of the
rates of returns are whether investors own A, B,
C, D, E, EE, F, G, H, HH, I, J and K savings
bonds and when they are cashed in.
P = price of the
bond n = number of periods
C = coupon payment r = required
rate of return on this investment F = maturity value t = time period when payment is to be received
To assist in the evaluation of an issuer's creditworthiness,
ratings agencies, such as Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's analyze a
bond issuer's ability to meet its debt obligations, and issue
ratings from «Aaa» or «AAA» for the most creditworthy issuers to «Ca», «
C»,»D», «DDD», «DD» or»D» for those in default.
As a measure of comparison, the worst
rating on a
bond is
C and a defaulted
bond has a D
rating.
Rating agencies rank
bonds on a scale ranging from AAA (super solid) to
C (close to default).
c) The Investor Impact: Another version of the B / S impact — investors face a prolonged period of these ultra low
rates for their cash /
bond investments.
Bond yields (
rates) are extremely low in the U.S. partly b /
c economies elsewhere in the world are doing even worse.