Bond ratings are grades given to bonds on the basis of the creditworthiness of the government, municipality, or corporation issuing them.
(If a corporation issued its own bond, it would pay a higher rate and the bondholder would owe tax on interest).
Viewers can buy permanent downloads of Sherlock, as well as rarities from the BBC archive, after the corporation issued a challenge to iTunes by opening its first digital BBC Store.
When rumours emerged in 2009 that Lonely Planet was the "top of the list" of assets reviewed for potential sale by the BBC Trust, the corporation issued a denial saying it was "not up for sale full stop".
The Nassau Health Care Corporation purchased the 615-bed center in East Meadow last year in a complicated deal in which the corporation issued county-backed bonds so it could pay the county $82 million and raise $135 million in working capital.
A group called Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, which includes 600 executives from companies like Bell Industries, the Pacific Stock Exchange and the Stride Rite Corporation, issued a report on Pentagon financial practices last May called "No One Is Accountable".
The association says the guaranty corporation issued thousands of workers determinations of the benefits due them that were improper because, among other reasons, they failed to abide by the terms of the agreement negotiated between Pan Am and its unions.
In response to the allegation that journalists at a British tabloid, The News of the World, hacked into the voice-mail account of a missing schoolgirl in 2002, the paper's former editor, who is now chief executive of the British newspaper division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, issued a statement in which she denied any knowledge of the affair.
This bedrock of U.S. markets was established in the 1933 Securities Act, and the S.E.C. was created, in 1934, largely to enforce a single proposition: that a corporation issuing securities to the public has to come clean about its financial results and outlook.
The auto parts maker, the Federal-Mogul Corporation, issued its second fourth-quarter warning in less than a month yesterday, saying its operating losses are likely to be much worse than expected as it feels the effects of a slowing automotive industry.
