Sentences with phrase «sovereign debt ratings»

To qualify for inclusion in the index, securities must have a below investment grade rating (based on an average of Moody's, S&P, and Fitch) and an investment grade rated country of risk (based on an average of Moody's, S&P, and Fitch foreign currency long term sovereign debt ratings).

Securities must be rated at least B3 (based on an average of three leading ratings agencies: Moody's, S&P and Fitch) and must have an investment - grade country risk profile (based on an average of Moody's, S&P and Fitch foreign currency long - term sovereign debt ratings.

Qualifying securities must have an investment - grade rating (based on an average of Moody's, S&P and Fitch) and must have an investment - grade - rated country of risk (based on an average of Moody's, S&P and Fitch foreign currency long term sovereign debt ratings).

A country's risk is assessed based on Standard & Poor's sovereign debt ratings.

South Africa also suffered a sovereign debt rating downgrade from Moody's last month as the economy comes under pressure from energy shortages, unrest at platinum mines and a soaring budget deficit.

The latest cause for worry, as we write, is the warning by Standard & Poors that Italy's sovereign debt rating of A + is at risk (a one - in - three chance) of being downgraded in the next 2 years, due to doubts about the success of the government's debt - reduction program.

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.

THERE IS NO DISCERNIBLE DEFAULT FREQUENCY or frequency variation around any sovereign debt rated above A. Thus, S&P's own study shows no default variation differential between AAA & A.

Moody's, like other credit rating agencies, has downgraded Russia's sovereign debt rating to non-investment grade, but does this reflect Russia's economy?

Not exact matches

Japan has already lost its AAA status, and Fitch Ratings recently warned it might downgrade the country's sovereign debt if it issued more than the planned ¥ 44 trillion in bonds next year.

Thanks to mounting inflation concerns, the EBC is now widely expected to raise interest rates before the EU economy is on a stable footing and ongoing sovereign debt issues are resolved.

China's credit agency Dagong lowered its U.S. sovereign credit rating from A to A - on Thursday, even after the debt ceiling had been lifted.

Data from the Portuguese Finance Ministry showed that the country paid less than 300 million euros ($ 368.49 million) in interest on its sovereign debt between 2016 and 2017 due to the increasingly optimistic views from the ratings agencies.

«Since June 2010, Gross has been reducing the $ 245 billion fund's vulnerability to interest - rate swings and increasing its reliance on credit quality by shifting from Treasuries to corporate and non-U.S. sovereign debt, a strategy that backfired last month,» according to Bloomberg.

The PBO identified four key downside risks to the private sector forecast: global growth, especially in the U.S. could be slower than anticipated; the appreciation of the Canadian dollar could adversely affect exports; sovereign debt issues in Europe could restrain recovery there and put upward pressure on global interest rates; and the high level of household debt in Canada could restrain domestic demand.

Global monetary policy remains broadly accommodative — and in some areas more and more so — propelling equity markets ever higher and leaving a record amount of sovereign debt around the world (almost US$ 12 trillion by midyear) yielding at or below zero (source: Fitch Ratings, as of 6/29/2016).

In the latest report issued by Moody's Investors Service on Wednesday, the internationally famous credit rating agency downgraded its outlook on China's credit rating from «stable» to «negative,» while affirming the still - respectable Aa3 grade on its sovereign debt.

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Since 2010, Europe's shrinking economies and lingering sovereign debt concerns have been a boon for U.S. mortgage rates.

If China decides to retaliate by unloading significant quantities of U.S. sovereign debt, it could cause a significant spike in rates at a time when the United States is running a high deficit and rates are already inching up.

But even if the ECB does bend to the will of the bond markets this year, and begins to buy sovereign debt directly, the single currency is left with all of the same weaknesses that existed prior to the crisis: the inability to tailor interest rate policy for each individual economy, the lack of foreign currency adjustment needed to offset differences in competitiveness, and growth - limiting trade dynamics throughout the area.

While the ratings agencies continue to lower their ratings and outlooks of European sovereign debt issuers, investors can't seem to get enough of the paper.

The Bloomberg Barclays Emerging Markets USD Aggregate Index is a flagship hard currency emerging market (EM) debt benchmark that includes fixed and floating - rate U.S. dollar — denominated debt issued from sovereign, quasi-sovereign, and corporate EM issuers.

Now we've got beyond sovereignty at least for a minute until one of the European countries who really have a lot of sovereign debt becomes an issue and our sovereign bond is going to be zero risk rating forever but we'll get to that question later.

The Spanish financial sector will benefit from a rating upgrade of the sovereign debt which could lead to a credit upgrade of the banks as well.

We remain concerned that if the U.S. continues the trend of a rising debt / GDP ratio, it increases the chances of a sovereign - debt credit downgrade by the credit ratings agencies.

More than half of 2 - to 30 - year German sovereign debt now yields less than the deposit rate, according to Pictet analysts.

First, our quickly escalating debt / GDP ratio puts the U.S. sovereign credit rating at risk for a future downgrade by some rating agencies, if left unchecked.

The rising U.S. federal debt burden now ranks the U.S. among the most leveraged developed - market countries, and puts the U.S. at increased risk of a sovereign - debt credit rating downgrade if the current trend continues.

Not only are its people more polarized than ever over Puerto Rico's status question — whether to become a sovereign nation, become a state of the U.S. or stay as it is; it is the most impoverished North American territory, with an external debt of over $ 7 billion, an unemployment rate of more than 20 per cent, 65 per cent of its people on federal food stamps and 38 per cent who have an income below the poverty line.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

Many sovereign bond markets too have been exceptionally volatile — with market rates for Italian and Spanish debt soaring, before falling back in the last three days.

A rise in the global lending rate increases the cost of servicing debt and magnifies the risk of sovereign defaults in general.»

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.

Do you think international bond investors — those same investors that drove Spain and Italy to the brink of needing sovereign bailouts — will continue to roll over Japanese debt at current rates?

Looking both within and outside of the benchmark, the Fund seeks relative value opportunities across traditional investment - grade and high - yield bond sectors, also including nontraditional asset classes like non-U.S. sovereign and corporate debt, convertibles, and floating - rate loans.

4 Other fixed income may include corporate bonds, floating - rate loans and other sovereign debt, among others.

In the wake of the Great Recession starting in 2007 and the ensuing global financial crisis, as well as European sovereign debt crisis, the FOMC maintained a record low target interest rate of 0 % to 0.25 % in order to encourage growth.

Investors began to worry this could erode the United States» cherished triple - A sovereign credit rating when Standard and Poors's on May 21 revised its outlook for Britain's triple - A status to negative from stable, blaming higher government debt.

Right now, there are rumors that the French credit rating could be downgraded, and there is a great deal of focus on bank stability and sovereign debt issues in Europe.

After the interest rate decision which showed now change in interest rate, the short end of the UK sovereign debt curve sold off.

Standard & Poor's Financial Services assigns AAA sovereign rating to Canadian Government debts.

Headlines like «Bond Prices Fall as Fed Gets Aggressive on Inflation» and «Bond Vigilantes Drive Up Rates on Italy's Sovereign Debt» mean little to those outside of high finance.

A broad ensemble of global income investments, the Fund seeks value opportunities across both traditional investment - grade and high - yield bond sectors and nontraditional asset classes, including convertibles, preferred stocks, non-U.S. sovereign and corporate debt and floating - rate loans.

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This ETF tracks the Barclays EM Local Currency Government Diversified Index which is a fixed - rate local currency sovereign debt of emerging market countries.

The stability of the issuing government can be provided by the country's sovereign credit ratings which help investors weigh risks when assessing sovereign debt investments.

An emerging markets bond fund that integrates sovereign hard currency debt, local currency debt, emerging market corporate debt, and emerging market currency rates within an actively managed, strategic asset - allocation framework.

An unfavorable change in exchange rates and an overly optimistic valuation of the payback from the projects financed by the debt can make it difficult for countries to repay sovereign debt.