Sentences with phrase «investment grade credit as»

The FOMC meeting took its toll on investment grade credit as well.

Not exact matches

With the scandal set to hurt profits and as funding costs climb, the debt load will likely increase beyond 5 times Ebitda, Mizuho Securities USA said Thursday in a note to clients, adding its internal credit rating on BRF is now three steps below investment grade.

Air Canada will consider instituting a dividend as it gets closer to achieving an investment grade credit rating by the end of 2020, said Rousseau.

The nation may need another $ 15 billion, according to the European Union, and Standard & Poor's said a debt default may be inevitable as it cut Ukraine's credit rating to CCC - last week, nine steps below investment grade.

We see opportunities in dividend growth stocks, EM equities and debt as well as in investment - grade credit.

More broadly, he says that while corporate credit may benefit from aspects of tax reform (i.e., better earnings growth from the corporate tax cuts, modestly lower investment grade supply as repatriation becomes reality), he does not see tax cuts at this point in the cycle as a bullish driver of credit spreads.

Of course we would like to see AXL pay down its debt as quickly as possible, but cutting the company's debt in half would likely push AXL to be an investment grade credit and this appears achievable within roughly 3 years.

By contrast, high - quality bonds such as those found in investment - grade corporate funds like the iShares 1 - 3 Year Credit Bond ETF (CSJ A-89) and the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD A-66), etc.), or in Treasury portfolios such as the iShares 1 - 3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY A-97) or the iShares 10 - 20 Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLH B - 65), etc.) tend to buffer portfolio volatility to a much greatinvestment - grade corporate funds like the iShares 1 - 3 Year Credit Bond ETF (CSJ A-89) and the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD A-66), etc.), or in Treasury portfolios such as the iShares 1 - 3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY A-97) or the iShares 10 - 20 Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLH B - 65), etc.) tend to buffer portfolio volatility to a much greatInvestment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD A-66), etc.), or in Treasury portfolios such as the iShares 1 - 3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY A-97) or the iShares 10 - 20 Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLH B - 65), etc.) tend to buffer portfolio volatility to a much greater degree.

As to whether the stock market has put in a «real» bottom, Reynolds said he would like to see corroborating evidence of improving conditions, like the yield on the 10 - year U.S. Treasury note moving back up, and improvement in the investment - grade corporate credit market.

Dhruv Mallick joined Leith Wheeler in January 2015 as a credit analyst, focusing on both investment grade and high yield credit.

In such a structure, the investment grade ratings for senior debt helps the DOT evaluate its credit risk as a subordinate lender.

[191] If the TIFIA credit instrument is proposed as the senior debt, then it must receive two investment grade ratings, unless the total amount of the debt is less than $ 75 million, in which case only one investment grade rating is required.

Until such time as a formal investment - grade rating is assigned, the Secretary shall not extend credit in an amount exceeding the estimated subsidy cost.

Adding a high quality, 100 % investment grade, sleeve such as the S&P U.S. High Quality Preferred Stock Index, into a preferred portfolio can improve portfolio credit quality which may mitigate the impact of a market sell off.

Higher - investment grade corporate bonds, such as those with «AAA» credit ratings, tend to have very low default risk.

After the bull market kicked off six years ago, as investors searched for yield amid low interest rates, they increasingly turned toward fixed income credit sectors, such as high yield, investment grade and emerging market debt.

Below investment grade issuers, whose credit risks rating agencies view as a higher concern, and which comprise the S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Corporate Bond Index, are yielding 4.66 % (YTW).

High - yield bonds (sometimes referred to as junk bonds) typically offer above - market coupon rates and yields because their issuers have credit ratings that are below investment grade: BB or lower from Standard & Poor's; Ba or lower from Moody's.

Investment grade bonds are the highest quality bonds as assessed by a credit ratings agency.

The suite of Strategic Income fixed income ETFs provide more balanced exposure with allocations to U.S. investment grade and high yield credit, as well as emerging market bonds.

Lower - rated credit indices such as the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index and the S&P / LSTA U.S. Leveraged Loan 100 Index have not greatly outpaced investment grade corporates YTD, given the increase in risks.

In addition, these funds must invest primarily in investment - grade fixed - income securities, such that the average credit quality of the portfolio as a whole is investment grade (BBB or equivalent rating or higher) and not more than 25 % of the portfolio's holdings are invested in high yield fixed income securities.

As such, securities rated below investment grade generally entail greater credit, market, issuer and liquidity risk than investment grade securities.

Those losses did not last too long, however, as the lower credits and investment - grade bonds bounced back in performance in December 2008 and did not look back during 2009.

In the next few blogs, we will detail our approach to and back - tested results of employing credit spread (value) and volatility as factors in order to systematically construct a portfolio of U.S. investment - grade corporate bonds.

Credit - sensitive categories — such as investment - grade corporate and high - yield bonds — were aided by the backdrop of faster growth and rising earnings, and long - term U.S. Treasuries posted gains amid continued low inflation.

An investment grade rating ensures that credit risks are still pretty low, although corporate bonds won't perform as steadily as government bonds if the market ever swoons again like it did in late 2008.

And as The Financial Times noted on Monday: «US investment grade is now above the main 50 -, 100 - and 200 - day moving averages, sending a bearish signal on credit risk.

Includes transactions (represented by structured pools of primarily investment grade corporate credit risks or commercial real estate assets) that do not include typical CDO structuring characteristics, such as tranched credit risk, cash flow waterfalls, or interest and over-collateralization coverage tests.

And, longer maturity investment grade credit is hurting as well.

Activity in the new issue investment grade market continued its fast pace as household names such as Amgen, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Kimberly - Clark and Time Warner came to market.

Names such as Bank of Nova Scotia, CSX, Toyota Motor Credit and Morgan Stanley for investment grade issuers and high yield issuer of American Energy Permian Basin, MHGE Parent, Rex Energy and Viking Cruises added to the supply of bonds for last week.

These institutions will continue to be credit quality conscious first and foremost, as will individual holders of investment grade, tax - free, municipal obligations.

A corporate bond which when issued was investment - grade rated by credit rating agencies such as Standard & Poor's or Moody's but is now downgraded due to a deteriorated financial situation.

At ING, he was the head of investment grade corporate credit, responsible for investment grade corporate credit as well as collaterized loan obligation and synthetic collateralized debt obligation investment portfolios.

The short positions are not intended to mitigate other factors influencing the price of investment grade bonds, such as credit risk, which may have a greater impact than rising or falling interest rates.

Paul McDowell, senior vice president and a founder and partner at CLF, says that while classic net - lease financing is for a stand - alone property that is 100 % net leased to a credit - rated tenant, «we see a lot of properties that have combinations of credit tenants and some percentage of non-credit or less - than - investment - grade tenants as well.»

The recent popularity of interval funds should not come as a surprise; these mutual funds offer retail investors access to institutional - grade real estate investments, such as commercial real estate credit, private real estate equity and private real estate debt, while typically requiring very low investment minimums.