investment, the bond credit rating represents the credit worthiness of corporate or government bonds. The ratings are published by credit rating agencies and...

A credit rating is an evaluation of the credit risk of a prospective debtor (an individual, a business, company or a government), predicting their ability...

A credit rating agency (CRA, also called a ratings service) is a company that assigns credit ratings, which rate a debtor's ability to pay back debt by...

Levels of Credit Risk' where 'default of some kind appears probable'. For Moody's, a bond is considered investment grade if its credit rating is Baa3 or...

Moody's Ratings, previously known as Moody's Investors Service, often referred to as Moody's, is the bond credit rating business of Moody's Corporation...

list of U.S. states by credit rating, showing credit ratings for sovereign bonds as reported by the three major credit rating agencies: Standard & Poor's...

event of default, and may also reflect liquidity and risk premia; see Bond credit rating, High-yield debt. Additional to default risk, as outlined, there are...

measure global bond portfolios, or may be further subdivided by maturity or sector for managing specialized portfolios. Bond credit rating Collective action...

high-yield bond (non-investment-grade bond, speculative-grade bond, or junk bond) is a bond that is rated below investment grade by credit rating agencies...

Chengxin Credit Rating Group (known as China Chengxin, or CCXI) was founded in Beijing on 8 October 1992 through the incorporation of China Chengxin Credit Management...

publishing companies established by John Moody, the inventor of modern bond credit ratings. It was first published in 1900 by John Moody, nine years before...

Australian Bureau of Statistics. Australia's bond credit rating was rated AAA by all three major credit rating agencies as at May 2017. Around two-thirds...

originally founded as Dominion Bond Rating Service in Toronto in 1976, and its operations were integrated with Morningstar Credit Ratings to form Morningstar DBRS...

(e.g., the Class A, Class B, Class C securities) with different bond credit ratings. The word tranche means a division or portion of a pool or whole...

obligations (CDOs), credit-linked notes or single-tranche CDOs. In funded credit derivatives, transactions are often rated by rating agencies, which allows...

principal on a bond or other security in the event of a payment default by the issuer of the bond or security. It is a form of "credit enhancement" that...

The Social Credit System (Chinese: 社会信用体系; pinyin: shèhuì xìnyòng tǐxì) is a national credit rating and blacklist being developed by the government of...

Association "Access all areas", a form of backstage pass AAA, the best bond credit rating Ghotuo language (ISO 639-3 language code: aaa) AAAA (disambiguation)...

patterns vary over time. When yield spreads widen between bond categories with different credit ratings, all else equal, it implies that the market is factoring...

the downgrading of the Cypriot government's bond credit rating to junk status by international credit rating agencies, the consequential inability to refund...

report in the United States Corporate credit rating, in investment, a bond credit rating assessing the credit worthiness of a corporation's debt issues...

Fitch Ratings Inc. is an American credit rating agency and is one of the "Big Three credit rating agencies", the other two being Moody's and Standard...

and co-founder of K2 Intelligence (now K2 Integrity), chair of Kroll Bond Rating Agency, Inc., and a member of the board of directors of BlueVoyant. In...

A nationally recognized statistical rating organization (NRSRO) is a credit rating agency (CRA) approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...

Credit rating agencies and the subprime crisis is the impact of credit rating agencies (CRAs) in the American subprime mortgage crisis of 2007–2008 that...

Bonds Bond valuation § Relative price approach Yield spread I-spread Option-adjusted spread Z-spread Asset swap spread Credit spread (bond) Bond credit rating...

" Moody's, a bond credit rating agency, said the new three-child policy is unlikely to boost birthrate and the aging will remain a credit-negative constraint...

determined based on the bond's Credit rating relative to a government security with similar maturity or duration; see Credit spread (bond). The better the quality...

finance, and is important for credit rating agencies when rating a securitization. There are two primary types of credit enhancement: internal and external...

S&P Global Ratings (previously Standard & Poor's and informally known as S&P) is an American credit rating agency (CRA) and a division of S&P Global that...