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...And here’s an intriguing postscript: in the Netherlands, public sector water operators are funded by Nederlandse Waterschapsbank, a AAA-rated public sector water bank....
...Blue-chip AAA-rated giants generally opt for bonds or bank loans....
...These are often called “mezzanine” tranches because they absorb losses before the AA- and AAA-rated tranches do....
...working group of the NAIC is set to discuss the capital charges associated with collateralised loan obligations, or CLOs, that bundle multiple corporate loans and sell in tranches that range in rating from AAA...
...Firms have either built or acquired insurance businesses, generating premiums for their credit arms to invest....
...With a minimal amount of labour or technology, Welch could arbitrage GE’s AAA-credit rating by borrowing inexpensively — only slightly more than what it cost the US government to borrow — and lend it out...
...Today the average gasoline price in the US stands at $3.61, according to AAA, or about 75 per cent higher, though this doesn’t account for the cost of the cigarettes you were more likely to smoke back then...
...And under the leadership of Gary Wendt it expanded greatly in insurance and leasing. Welch loved GE Capital....
...Why does the same company get an AAA score from one provider but a B from another?...
...In July, credit rating agency Moody’s reissued the country’s prized Aaa rating, citing very high wealth levels and “sound financial regulatory and fiscal frameworks”....
...Much further down the market, there’s M&AAA....
...Ubisoft “has one of the most extensive portfolios of AAA games in the industry, with more than eight major franchises....
...A simple formula could apply: the AAA refinancing costs of the ESM, plus a risk premium that reflects both the rating of the country and any progress it has made on its public finances....
...The World Bank is rated Aaa / AAA stable by the leading credit rating agencies....
...(FT) Insurance companies need to pay special attention to ESG risks, and rating agencies are putting them under the microscope....
...Presumably the price excludes health insurance. A model railway dangles from the ceiling, with a train whizzing round with the dessert menu....
...(BBC) The health insurance hustle A new investigation unveils how US health insurers give cash and gifts to the independent brokers who advise employers on health benefits....
...The facility plans to narrow the funding gap by attracting $2bn in guarantees from AAA and AA-rated donor countries to back an $8bn expansion in education lending by the multi-laterals....
...“Codemasters has a long record as a leading UK AAA car-racing computer game developer....
...More worrying, even AAA-rated Chinese corporate bond spreads against US equivalents have widened by a 160 basis points over the past eight months....
...– Tesla owners should pay more for insurance, AAA says....
...Last week, Illinois GO bonds traded at a record 335 basis points over the MMD index of AAA municipal bonds....
...There are only three AAA-rated sovereigns left in the euro area: Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Their combined debt is only about €2.5 trillion....
...This has raised the spectre of credit ratings’ agencies stripping Canberra of its coveted triple AAA rating....
...Climate risk reduction is the second pillar of AAA....
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