Sentences with phrase «ratings on junk»

One would think that they had utterly lost their reputation for honesty — not to mention competence — by pasting AAA ratings on junk mortgages as prime enablers of the present global financial crash.

The idea was to save the ratings agencies from having to take responsibility for the tens of billions of dollars lost as a result of their past AAA ratings on junk mortgages.

As default rates on junk - rated debt is above nine percent, companies with junk status face an average interest rate that is a whopping ten percent points above Treasuries — these days, that translates into roughly 12 percent for a five - year loan.

If the rates on junk went negative, it would be an indication that either the ratings system is broken or dogs & cats are living together, mass hysteria.

As default rates on junk - rated debt is above nine percent, companies with junk status face an average interest rate that is a whopping ten percent points above Treasuries — these days, that translates into roughly 12 percent for a five - year loan.

Default rates on junk bonds normally peak late in recessions or in the year after it ends.

Defaults always decrease during good times and skyrocket during severe recessions, so with the U.S. now at risk of falling into a recession, analysts are predicting that the default rate on junk bonds may climb to 5 % next year.

Not exact matches

Beyond the requirements that liquidity and regulators impose on us, we will purchase currency - related securities only if they offer the possibility of unusual gain — either because a particular credit is mispriced, as can occur in periodic junk - bond debacles, or because rates rise to a level that offers the possibility of realizing substantial capital gains on high - grade bonds when rates fall.

Just as significant as the ratings downgrades may be the suspension on Friday of the creditor talks in Greece — whose debt S. & P. long ago gave junk status.

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Moody's Investors Service on Tuesday downgraded Tesla's corporate family rating to B3, six levels into junk, and said its outlook on the company is negative.

Almost all of the processes that used to require a mail response are completely online now, and the USPS today is essentially one big junk mail courier for companies wanting to advertise at a 1.4 percent conversion rate on average.

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

Some 5.7 % of corporate junk bonds from emerging markets are trading at prices below 70 cents on the dollar, more than double the rate for higher - risk U.S. bonds, according to JPMorgan.

Moody's Investors Service also downgraded Tesla's credit rating further into junk on Tuesday.

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.

Relatively high debt loads as featured on pretty much every junk - rated issuer's balance sheet must be serviced with cash.

Spreads on the lowest quality segment of the «junk» bond category, «C» rated bonds, have narrowed by an extraordinary 30 percentage points since late 2001, to around 5.5 percentage points.

For example, in a world where short - term interest rates are zero, Wall Street acts as if a 2 % dividend yield on equities, or a 5 % junk bond yield is enough to make these securities appropriate even for investors with short horizons, not factoring in any compensation for risk or likely capital losses.

Telsa shares finally get sold — from $ 360 down to $ 260 — Tesla bonds downgraded by rating agency to junk — Questions about production remain — Autopilot accident (why is autopilot allowed on major roads?)

The recent ratings downgrades by both Moody's and S&P Global Ratings have placed the State of Illinois general obligation bonds on the edge of becominratings downgrades by both Moody's and S&P Global Ratings have placed the State of Illinois general obligation bonds on the edge of becominRatings have placed the State of Illinois general obligation bonds on the edge of becoming junk.

Standard & Poor's on Jan. 25 cut Illinois» bond ratings one notch to A-minus, four notches above junk status.

In an unexpected move, Standard & Poor's cut its sovereign debt rating on Turkey further into junk territory on May 1, citing widening concern about the outlook for inflation amid a sell - off in the Turkish lira currency.

A week later, Moody's cut its rating on MF Global to a notch above junk, pointing to the European debt holdings.

«Junk DNA» was introduced in 1972 by geneticist Susumu Ohno who noted that the mutational load from harmful mutations placed an upper limit on the number of functional loci that could be expected given a typical mutation rate.

While Texas's childhood obesity rate does remain stubbornly high, what would it look like today if the TSNP hadn't been in place for the last decade to curb the worst junk food on school campuses?

Yes, school meals in France are indeed superior to ours, but that's reflective of a government so supportive of raising good food citizens that it actually provides state - sanctioned «taste training» to all preschoolers, puts warnings on junk food ads, and funds school meals at a far higher rate than our own government.

Standard and Poor's joined Moody's Investors Service in dropping Rockland County's credit rating level on Friday, June 29, putting the county at just above junk status.

«The latter included China's stock market collapse and its global repercussions and effects on commodity prices; the Aug. 11 devaluation of the renminbi; the downgrade of Brazilian debt to junk status by Standard and Poor's on Sept. 9; and the major uncertainties surrounding the possible increase of the U.S. Federal Reserve funds rate.

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The credit rating on national champion oil producer Petrobras was recently lowered to junk status, adding to investor worries that Brazil's sovereign debt will suffer the same fate.

NEW YORK, Aug 14 (Reuters)- The global junk bond default rate rose to 1.79 percent in July from 1.44 percent in June as U.S. financial and real estate firms struggled to keep up with debt payments, Standard & Poor's said on Thursday.

For the Washington Mutual Stockholders that day came on September 15th 2008 when the S&P rating agency lowered their rating for Washington Mutual Bank to Junk status with a negative outlook.

The bubble was a combination of (a) teaser rates on option ARMs which were like financial time bombs, (b) liar loans in which the rules of good mortgage underwriting (20 % down, 28/36 ratios) went out the window, (C) people at rating agencies who decided that if one pools enough junk loans into one bond, it's magically AAA, and (D) Credit default swaps which encouraged these bad loans, and when they collapsed a number of people walked away with billions of dollars.

The U.S. territory also is grappling with $ 70 billion in debt, ratings firms have downgraded its bonds to one notch above junk and investors fear it could default on its obligations.

When risk - free and AAA - rated corporate bonds yield less than 4 %, 3.5 % yield on utilities and 6 % yields from junk ETFs are difficult to pass up.

Similarly, on the S&P credit ratings scale, borrowers with ratings under triple - B are considered «junk» while only those that fall between triple - B and triple - A on the scale are considered OK.

The following table includes certain tax information for all Target Maturity Date Junk Bond ETFs listed on U.S. exchanges that are currently tracked by ETF Database, including applicable short - term and long - term capital gains rates and the tax form on which gains or losses in each ETF will be reported.

This page provides ETFdb Ratings for all Target Maturity Date Junk Bond ETFs that are listed on U.S. exchanges and tracked by ETF Database.

The recent ratings downgrades by both Moody's and S&P Global Ratings have placed the State of Illinois general obligation bonds on the edge of becominratings downgrades by both Moody's and S&P Global Ratings have placed the State of Illinois general obligation bonds on the edge of becominRatings have placed the State of Illinois general obligation bonds on the edge of becoming junk.

NEW YORK, Nov 7 (Reuters)- Moody's Investors Service on Friday cut its ratings on MBIA Inc's (MBI.N) insurance arm and also sent ratings on the holding company's debt into junk territory, citing diminished business prospects and a weaker financial profile.

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.

This is much worse than junk bonds, since the default rate on those even at the height of credit crisis never reached 20 %.

All good & proper, but perhaps a little pointless in the end, as I still think the discount rate has to begin moving down (& increase valuations)-- I mean, consider the rate vs. the rates on Treasuries, junk, etc., and the fact the discount rate has to converge on zero as LE hds twds zero also.

Triple - C rated bonds, the lowest junk tier, sold at 42.6 cents on the dollar at the beginning of last year.

I'm clipping coupons in the short run, running credit risk while I don't see any major credit risks on the horizon aside from weak sovereigns (think the PIIGS), student loans, and weak junk (ratings starting with a «C»).