Steven C. Miller, managing director of Standard & Poor's LCD, a unit of the rating agency that monitors creditworthiness of floating rate loans, said default rates, a measure of how many companies have stopped paying interest, have been declining.
Standard & Poor's Equity Research, a unit of the rating agency, has doubled the number of its analysts in Europe since early 2004.
According to Standard & Poor's LCD, a unit of S&P, a rating agency, even relatively liquid leveraged loans are trading at roughly 88 cents on the dollar, compared with face value in the middle of last year (see chart 2).
Here in this article, an unit of network mobility rate is the number of arrivals per minutes.
According to a Wall Street executive who is close to the situation, Iran has asked Standard & Poor's, a unit of McGraw-Hill, to rate the planned bond issue, and S.& P. has applied for an export license to do so.
The researchers report in the journal Science that in the area of the epicenter, gravity increased by less than one micro-Galileo (a unit of gravitational acceleration, or the rate at which a falling object speeds up).
A report released today by a unit of SRI Consulting notes that the rate of increase in the number of U.S. households using Web-based banking is declining.
T-Online, a unit of Deutsche Telekom, is offering the lower rate through a new unit, Congster, for as little as 3.99 euros ($5.40) a month, Congster said.
Figures from a competing market research firm, Dataquest, a unit of the Gartner Group, estimated the growth rate at 10.1percentt in the quarter, with 37.9 million units sold.
Inspection rate during a unit of time.
