Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The rating agencies historically actually did a pretty good job rating regular bonds.
We're only one of a few states that have maintained our Triple-A bond rating from the major rating agencies.
The best companies with the strongest credit ratings borrow like the United States: on a non-prioritized basis. This means that in the event of a default, all of their debts are of equal priority because lenders and creditors believe default is highly unlikely. And they spend considerable effort maintaining this status.
We have got this Damocles' sword of Standard and Poor's hanging over us, with the commitment they have made to review Britain's credit rating in the summer of 2010 after the general election. Everybody in Britain has a vital interest in ensuring that the triple A credit rating agency is maintained.
The credit quality of junk bonds varies widely.
We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We have new rules around credit rating agencies.
Every central banker in the world pays attention to credit growth, but not in the U.S.
Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn't do the only job they're supposed to have, the only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
Talking about Korea, it has pretty high capital ratios at banks and maintains a good credit rating.
Credit is an 'I love debt' score.
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