Canadian Bond Rating Service (CBRS)
an autonomous rating of a bond issued by a corporation where the corporation is rated between P1 to P5. P1 is the highest P5 is the lowest.
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Fitch Rating Service
A rating agency for certain specific type of municipal, corporate and agency bonds.
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Not rated
A rating service indicator, neither positive nor negative, showing that a security or company has not been rated.
S&P Rating
Rating service provided by S&P that indicates the amount of risk involved with different securities.
rating service A firm that publishes ratings for securities such as preferred stock and debt... ratio The value of one item relative to another.Commonly taking the form of a fraction...
One of the two best known bond rating services, the other being Standard & Poor's. Moody's also rates commercial paper, preferred and common stocks, and municipal short-term issues.
Sure, there are investment rating services that provide a false sense of security to Buy & Holders. But the fact is that pretty much every investment that rating services have touted over the last few years has lost money.
Bond rating - A bond rating demonstrates the creditworthiness of a bond issuer as determined by one of several rating services.
The three major rating services-Fitch, Moody's, and Standard & Poor's-use AAA as their highest rating and grade down through Bs and Cs. (D is used only by Fitch.) Debts rated AAA, AA, A, and BBB are considered investment-grade.
Ba3 is a long-term bond rating provided by the Moody's rating service, while BB- is the parallel rating provided by both the S&P and Fitch rating services.
Ba2/BB is the rating that falls directly above Ba3/BB-, while B1/B+ falls directly below.
The majority of zero coupon municipal bonds are rated A or better by the three major rating services: Moody's Investors Service, Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings (see Assessing Risk ).
Among the best known and most widely used rating firms are: Dominion Bond Rating Service, Inc. 55 Broadway New York, N.Y. 10016; Fitch Ratings, One State Street Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10004; Moody's Investors Service, 99 Church Street, New York, N.Y.
Morningstar: mutual fund rating service.
Mortgage REIT: A real estate investment trust (REIT) whose primary business is investing in real estate loans.
Most Recent Quarter (MRQ): as of the last date of the last reported fiscal quarter.
The rating bands for three of the rating services are outlined in this section. As seen in recent events, highly rated debt issues can decline into subinvestment quality rating bands or go into default.
Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's are the two premiere bond-rating services. If one of these services does not rate a bond, I would pass on it.
Investment Grade Bond: Bond rated with one of the top four grades by a rating service like Moody's and Standard & Poor's, indicating a high level of creditworthiness.
The grading of a bond by reference to the bond issuer's ability to make interest and principal payments as specified in the terms of the bond. The three major rating services - Fitch, ...
HIGH YIELD BOND
High-yield bonds may be bonds whose ratings from independent rating services are below investment grade.
While it is important to make note of the ratings issued by several different services, it is usually a good idea to dig a little deeper and consider the individual factors that led to the bond rating assigned by a particular rating service.
Rating Agency Provides research, opinions, and ratings on securities and other credit obligations. Investors use this information to analyze the credit risks. Popular debt rating agencies include Moodys and Standard and Poor's Rating Services.
The yield of a specific corporate bond depends on numerous factors, the most important is the financial health of the corporation and prevailing interest rates. Several bond rating services provide investors with an evaluation to help judge the ...
 See also: Rating, Issue, Investment, Market, Interest
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