Sentences with phrase «rating about your creditworthiness»

The higher your credit score, the better the rating about your creditworthiness.

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These days they often include argumentum ad hominem attacks, such as sly references to the agencies» sterling ratings on Lehman Brothers the day before it filed for bankruptcy, that distract from relevant discussion about the country's creditworthiness.

Depending on a borrower's creditworthiness and other factors, interest rates can run from about 6.5 percent to nearly 36 percent.

Namely, bond coupon payments are determined by market interest rates, the type of issuing entity (government bonds pay lower coupons than corporate bonds because of lower default risk), the creditworthiness of the issuing entity (AAA companies pay lower coupons than CCC companies), and the maturity of the bond, which we will talk about next.

Banks are very strict about credit ratings which are the most reliable indicator of a borrower's creditworthiness.

A Standard & Poor's issue credit rating is a forward - looking opinion about the creditworthiness of an obligor with respect to a specific financial obligation.

In the United States the credit scoring system you will hear about most is the FICO score, a score used by the major credit agencies to rate your creditworthiness.