Sentences with phrase «bond rating agencies»

(Note that a ratio of over 90 % has been identified by bond rating agencies as being problematic for retaining our valued AAA - credit rating).

All three bond rating agencies rate bonds when they are first issued and then continually analyze additional financial information and adjust ratings in light of changing economic status.

Bond rating agencies perform a similar function when evaluating bonds.

A very noisy, very public government oversight campaign to restore confidence in bond rating agencies.

The issues are rated below investment grade by bond rating agencies.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency Europe Limited is registered as a Credit Rating Agency by European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)

Looking back to one of the worst recessions in recent times, many people believe that the independent bond rating agencies played a pivotal part in the 2008 downturn.

Looking back to one of the worst recessions in recent times, many people believe that the independent bond rating agencies played a pivotal part in the 2008 downturn.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency Europe Limited is carrying on business as KBRA Europe and is registered in Ireland, No. 599995 with a registered address of 25 - 28 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, Ireland.

Law said bond rating agencies threatened downgrades if the measures were approved and counts a Fitch upgrade of LIPA this year as among his accomplishments.

In another sign of Connecticut's wobbly finances, a Wall Street bond rating agency has downgraded the state's bond rating for the third time in less than a week.

«During the Harrison years, they had labour issues now and then,» says Kam Hon, managing director at bond rating agency DBRS, «but the disrupt ions were never extensive, so it never really hurt CN's performance.»

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Doug has worked as an editor at an international bond rating agency and a Canadian website for financial advisors.

-- A leading bond rating agency threatened Tuesday to downgrade Maryland's gold - plated credit rating because of the protracted debate over raising the nation's $ 14.3 trillion debt ceiling.

There are laws regulating credit reporting agencies, laws regulating bond rating agencies, laws regulating banks, regulating savings and loans, regulating credit unions, regulating financial institutions that lend to credit unions, establishing and regulating the federal reserve, regulating mortgage financing, regulating automobile financing, regulating export - import financing, and so on and so on.

In May, Fitch and two other bond rating agencies said Syracuse had maintained a good credit rating despite looming fiscal pressures and a weak economy.

The city of Syracuse has maintained its good credit rating despite looming fiscal pressures and a weak economy, three bond rating agencies reported this week.

While the new funding, if approved, will keep the wolf from the door for another year, Sheehan had been hoping to see an annual funding stream that would allow the city to craft «a realistic budget and a more permanent solution» to create stability for everyone involved — local officials, taxpayers, developers and even bond rating agencies.

I felt that satisfaction last week when Rockland County was informed that Fitch, a highly regarded bond rating agency, had awarded the county an A - rating.

The most commonly cited bond rating agencies are Standard & Poor's, Moody's and Fitch.

Bond ratings are determined by the three bond rating agencies Standard and Poor's, Moody's and Fitch.

Moodys and Standard & Poors are the two primary bond rating agencies and they provide a bond rating scale using a grading system to assist investors in determining bond quality.

There are three main bond rating agencies: Standard & Poors (S&P), Moody's, and Fitch.

The major bond rating agencies each use a form of scholastic grading scale, with some variation of an «A +» denoting the best rating.

(For more, see: When to Trust Bond Rating Agencies.)

Everyone who watches Canada's economy — from the Bank of Canada to global bond rating agencies — worries about the effect of rising rates of mortgage debt.

Moody's and Standard and Poor's are the most well known bond rating agencies.

Bond rating agencies like Moody's and Standard & Poor's (S&P) provide a service to investors by grading fixed income securities based on current research.

DBRS, the Canadian - owned bond rating agency, has seen the numbers following an investigation of 461 defined benefit pension plans in Canada, the U.S., Japan and Europe and is mightily concerned.

The Fitch bond ratings agency has warned that California's protracted drought could put financial pressure on public - power entities in their ability to service their bond debts.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency assigned its A - rating, one step lower.

A bond's credit quality is usually determined by independent bond rating agencies, such as Moody's Investors Service, Inc., and Standard & Poor's Corporation (S&P).

Last year, she made no secret of studying the potential for municipal bankruptcy, even when it scared Wall Street bond ratings agencies.

In addition, Sherman Financial Group purchases and manages consumer debt; manages investments in corporate debt, real estate and structured credit; and is the owner of Kroll Bond Rating Agency, the nation's largest post-financial crisis rating agency.»

And DBRS, the bond rating agency, detects change in this relationship.

«Her comments on their face are wrong,» said Christopher Whalen, senior managing director at Kroll Bond Rating Agency and author of «Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream.»

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

The conflict may have something to do with Barry referring to S&P and Moody's, the bond ratings agencies that blessed so much toxic paper, as «Pimps and Whores ``.

We expect that the bond rating agencies will soon have something to say on this.

The bond rating agency Emanuel loves to hate says the airport may be on the wrong path with an $ 8.5 billion expansion.

And while smaller outfits, including Kroll Bond Rating Agency, have gained some traction in the industry of late, S&P, Moody's and Fitch still dominate the business.

According to Mr. Cohen, a comptroller who is a C.P.A. would also provide assurances to the state comptroller, bond rating agencies, and investors that what East Hampton Town represents to the public is accurate.

Steven Rhoads (R - Bellmore) said the borrowing is «purely about how it's going to look to the bond rating agencies if we have a $ 45 million unanticipated expense hit the books.

Borrowing this «small» amount won't impress the bond rating agencies, we won't jump the four grades that separate the county and control board.

The Office of the State Comptroller and bond rating agencies have repeatedly affirmed our sound fiscal management and rewarded our efforts with stable, positive ratings.

«In order for our county to return to fiscal stability and satisfy the bond rating agencies, we must move ahead with the plan to create a Local Development Corporation to sell the Summit Park Health Care Facility,» he said.

Three months ago, Fitch Ratings, the bond rating agency, raised its outlook on Syracuse from negative to stable, citing the replenished fund balance.