Sentences with phrase «poor quality bonds»

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Last year's poor showing by Canadian equities, combined with the Euro - zone crisis saw panicked investors flock to the safety of quality bonds.

A bond's credit quality is determined by private independent rating agencies such as Standard & Poor's, Moody's and Fitch.

«In a horrible, truly worst - case scenario, a high - quality bond index fund is still less risky over the course of a year than stocks are in one day,» says the investment adviser Allan Roth, founder of Wealth Logic in Colorado Springs, alluding to the 20 percent decline in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index on Oct. 19, 1987.

, but I think it's a mistake for risk averse or diversified investors to completely give up on high quality bonds because they're worried about poor returns from low yields.

This film is to the Bourne stable what â $ œQuantum of Solaceâ $ is to the Bond films â $ «distinctly flat, and in no way memorable, other than for being poor quality.

The controversial financing tool, often referred to as a social impact bond, has allowed this cash - strapped district, one of five in the Salt Lake City area, to provide high - quality early education to thousands of poor 3 - and 4 - year - olds who might have otherwise stayed home.

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).

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.

A high quality bond rating of AAA from Standard and Poor's, for example, means the bond is of the highest investment quality, suggesting the company will have the ability to pay both principal and interest at maturity.

If you are interested in purchasing high quality international bonds you can research them through Moody's or Standard & Poor's credit rating agencies, and you can purchase them through discount brokerages.

Bond rating firms, such as Standard & Poor's and Moody's, use different designations consisting of upper - and lower - case letters «A» and «B» to identify a bond's credit quality ratBond rating firms, such as Standard & Poor's and Moody's, use different designations consisting of upper - and lower - case letters «A» and «B» to identify a bond's credit quality ratbond's credit quality rating.

Standard and Poor's, the ratings agency, assigns quality ratings to stocks that resemble its bond ratings.

Checks from Canada and other foreign countries, food stamps, savings bonds and poor image quality checks must be deposited traditionally.

To help investors determine the quality of these types of bonds, most are rated by outside investment agencies, such as Standard and Poor's, Moody's or Fitch.

Performance could be particularly poor during risk - averse, flight - to - quality environments when high yield bonds commonly decline in value.

For example, adults who experience parental divorce as a child have lower socioeconomic attainment, an increased risk of having a nonmarital birth, weaker bonds with parents, lower psychological well - being, poorer marital quality, and an elevated risk of seeing their own marriage end in divorce.7 Overall, the evidence is consistent that parental divorce during childhood is linked with a wide range of problems in adulthood.