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...In October, Standard & Poor’s lifted Greece’s credit rating into investment-grade territory for the first time since 2010. Rival agency Moody’s still has a non-investment grade rating on the country....
...Investment-grade yields sit at 5.34 per cent — higher than their levels at the end of last year, but well below their mid-November levels of more than 6 per cent....
...“We hope our rating will build more confidence for potential investors to co-invest with INA in Indonesia and to obtain trust from our potential financiers as we are an investment-grade organisation,” he...
...They all track Bloomberg benchmarks and invest in euro-denominated, investment-grade corporate bonds....
...S&P this month downgraded Thames Water’s top-ranked class A debt to BBB-, the bottom rung of investment-grade, just one notch above junk....
...As such, “investment grade bond ETFs, could be used to express a view”, he said....
...Junk ratings from two of the three leading credit agencies would end Panama’s investment-grade status....
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...Moody’s said the deposit downgrade makes NYCB the only US bank it rates to have a non-investment grade deposit rating....
...“We’re running circa two months ahead of what I would consider a normal type schedule for investment-grade issuance,” said Teddy Hodgson, co-head of Morgan Stanley’s global investment-grade debt syndicate...
...DBRS Morningstar has lifted Greece’s credit rating to investment-grade status for the first time since the debt crisis that erupted more than a decade ago and resulted in three international bailouts....
...within the investment-grade corporate bond market,” BondBloxx co-founder Tony Kelly said in the release....
...Investment-grade credit spreads are hovering around their tightest levels since early 2022....
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...Panama’s bonds lost their investment grade rating from Fitch on Thursday, months after the country decided to close one of the world’s largest copper mines, which exacerbated fiscal pressures....
...In the period of 2004-2007, investment grade credit spreads traded between 80-100 bps over comparable Treasuries....
...It is presumably designed to sell the wines of the extensive Ink Grade Howell Mountain vineyard that came with the Heitz acquisition. But how easy will it be to sell these wines?...
...Investment-grade borrowers posted a record January for bond sales, while high-yield or “junk” volumes reached a two-year high, as finance chiefs took advantage of a drop in yields to borrow at more attractive...
...In an interim report, the body said these partnerships would smooth out investment returns, to help projects achieve an investment-grade credit rating and make them a better match for insurers’ long-term...
...The promising ore grades and low impurities place Rio Tinto in an advantageous position given the steel industry’s push for decarbonisation; higher grades translate into higher premiums on the pricing front...
...If El Salvador fails to get at least two upgrades to a rating of B, which is five steps below investment grade, or strike a deal for a loan package with the IMF by October 2025, those coupon payments will...
...Moody’s Ratings on Monday evening withdrew the company’s investment-grade issuer rating, downgraded other bond ratings and placed them on review for further downgrade....
...The average yield on conventional investment-grade bonds has risen from 2.5 per cent at the start of 2022 to 5.2 per cent today, according to Ice BofA data....
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