Sentence examples for grades of debt from inspiring English sources

The deficiencies of the credit rating agencies are particularly problematic because regulations require banks, insurance companies and institutional investors to invest only in certain grades of debt.

The requirement that certain investors may only invest in certain grades of debt has had the unintended consequence of leading some investors to lean too heavily on a rating as the sole or primary means for evaluating a debt investment.

It's an investment-grade level of debt.

Investment-grade issuers sold $27.1 billion of debt this week, and on Friday, Hasbro, Gannett and Bank of America joined in.

European companies with credit ratings below investment grade have a combined $72 billion of debt due this year, according to Standard & Poor's.

In early 2007, according to the S.E.C., a Moody's analyst discovered a significant flaw in one of its ratings models that inflated the grades assigned to a new type of debt called constant proportion debt obligation notes.

Investment-grade companies typically juggle a smorgasbord of debt -- short, intermediate and long term -- but they are definitely skewing the mixture toward the long end these days.

Record issuance of speculative- grade bonds and the widespread use of debt to finance the repurchase of firms' own shares made defaults more likely.

Hershey is also wary of endangering its investment-grade credit rating, constraining the amount of debt and equity it can raise in support of its bid, these people said.

In August Moody's downgraded Saks' $1.55 billion of debt to below investment grade.

According to Charles Melchreit, a portfolio manager of the Pioneer fund investing in them, a typical cat bond pays a coupon of 12%, nearly twice as much as the non-investment-grade sovereign debt of an emerging market like Brazil.