Not exact matches
Floating - rate loans» low credit ratings
indicate greater potential risk of
default relative to investment - grade bonds (though
default rates for floating - rate loans historically have been lower than on
high - yield bonds).
You are a predictable source of income without signs that your debt is becoming hard to manage, which would
indicate higher risk of non-payment and possibly eventual
default.
[2] More recent work that tracks debt outcomes for individual borrowers documents that the main problem is not
high levels of debt per student (in fact,
defaults are lower among those who borrow more, since this typically
indicates higher levels of college attainment), but rather the low earnings of dropout and for - profit students, who have
high rates of
default even on relatively small debts.
A
higher score
indicates a lower risk of
default, and vice versa.
«We know that lower credit scores, in and of themselves,
indicate a
higher risk of
default,» says FHA Commissioner David H. Stevens.
However, the chances of
default might be
higher, as a discount bond can
indicate that the lender is in a less than ideal place in the market or will likely be in the future.
With the exception of the Early
Default Score, below, a
higher score is better because it
indicates less risk.
The S&P credit rating difference between small - cap stocks (B rated) and large - cap stocks (A + rated)
indicates the
higher likelihood (over 200 times) of smaller stocks being delisted, often because of
default.
A rising or
high TED spread will often precede a downturn in the stock market because it
indicates increasing risk of bank
defaults and economic instability.
Asking questions about insurance could
indicate the house is in a
high - risk zone, and we «now have to underwrite the borrower and the property with a different and more intense
default lens,» says Bill Dallas, CEO and co-founder of Cloudvirga.
A study conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland concluded that lower credit scores do in fact
indicate higher likelihood of mortgage
default.
Available data
indicate that borrowers 65 and older hold
defaulted federal student loans at a much
higher rate, which can leave some retirees with income below the poverty threshold.
-- Very low
default rates on corporate and
high yield bonds (
indicates the ease with which even poorly run companies can refinance and creates false sense of security)
Bonds rated Baa (by Moody's) or BBB (by S&P and Fitch) or above, whose
higher credit ratings
indicate a lower risk of
default.
A
higher score
indicates a lower risk of
default, and vice versa.
A
higher HCAI
indicates that lenders are willing to tolerate
defaults and are taking more risks, making it easier to get a loan.
Their housing credit availability index measures the extent to which lenders are willing to tolerate mortgage
defaults and relax credit standards (
higher percentages
indicate looser lending standards).