Sentences with phrase «junk rating»

But Oyster Bay received downgrade after downgrade, sliding 10 notches to its current junk rating of BB + with the possibility that it could drop further.

For example, Overseas Shipholding Group (equity ticker OSG) is a deeply junk rated oil tanker company that has seen its bonds drop from trading around par (par means 100 cents on the dollar when comparing the market price to the face amount of the bonds) to distressed levels between 60 and 70 cents on the dollar.

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.

Politically, President Dilma Rousseff is facing potential impeachment from Congress, her Finance Minister quit in December, and the country's debt has been reduced to junk rating by both Standard and Poor's and Fitch Ratings.

Many have negative yields at levels that would impair related junk rated securities)

But quantitative easing has also had an effect in suppressing risk premiums in securities that have much less dependence on the course of short - term rates — particularly junk rated debt, corporate debt, and stocks.

Investors demand more than 1 % in extra return from the highest junk rating (BB +) relative to that required of the lowest investment grade bond (BBB --RRB-.

In the current interest rate environment, that means I'm buying some junk bonds, no bonds with high credit ratings, and mostly bonds just above the traditional junk rating of Baa for Moody's.

I am almost ready to bet a sixpence debt at the lower end of the scale (where junk rated companies dwell and where in the US lower FICO scores are) has grown at a much faster pace than at the top over the past four - five years.

Nvidia is now partially owned by our old friend, SoftBank, the Japanese buyout queen whose junk rating and crushing debt load the financial press is wont to ignore.

A junk rating would further discourage investment, job creators and the in - migration of new residents.

Investors» warm reception for this week's $ 3.5 bln issue looks strange given the island's junk rating and rocky finances, not to mention that existing bonds trade at a big discount.

So if a company is drowning in debt and has little capacity to pay it back, its bonds will get a junk rating and they won't make into indexes that hold only investment - grade issues.

Now, another analyst suggested that MBIA and Ambac should be junk rated.

Once they have a junk rating, fewer will do business with them, much like the financial insurers.

Twenty - three of those companies had ratings of double - B - minus from Fitch and Standard and Poor's, which is another way of saying they were junk rated.

The $ 63 million Class F piece of the deal, which would be the first to take losses, had junk ratings.