Sentences with phrase «bond credit ratings»

These are bonds from issuers whose risk levels prevent them from qualifying for «investment grade ratings» by the primary bond credit rating agencies.

This is where bond credit ratings come into play.

Bond credit ratings look a lot like a school report card.

While bond credit ratings and relative yield can compensate an investor for the relative risk of companies to make good on their debts, the recent past has shown this is not always the case.

This is where the ratings agencies, or those companies that are tasked with classifying the credit worthiness via bond credit ratings come into play.

This rating is provided by Moody's Investor Service - one of the major bond credit rating services.

The guy from the ratings agency would scratch his head, tell you spreads aren't his job, but then volunteers that spreads are correlated with bond credit ratings on average.

Not only are the bond credit ratings they put out complicated to understand, but they each have their own system.

Bond credit ratings are the equivalent to an individual's credit score and are designed to guage the risk that a bondholder will not receive a portion or all of the interest and principal payments they are due on a bond.

In 2013, Moody's Investor Service, a bond credit rating agency, released a report which concluded that a small but growing number of school districts face severe financial stress as charter schools proliferate, specifically because these districts can't reduce their costs as quickly as they lose revenue.

Moody's Investors Service, which is a bond credit rating business of Moody's Corporation, began downgrading bonds last month.