BOND RATING AGENCIES
Companies evaluating the creditworthiness of both debt instruments and their issuers. Agencies use letter-based rating system to determine a bond’s default risk and financial stability. These are rated at the time of its issuance, and both bonds and issuers are regularly reevaluated to check if a rating’s change is acceptable. In the United States, the bond rating agencies are Fitch, Moody’s, and Standard & Poor’s.
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Affirmative Covenant
A kind of contract or promise that requires a party to conduct some action. For example, a bond covenant which provides that the issuer must delive ...
Pure Risk
A risk where loss is the only potential outcome; there is no positive result. A pure risk is related to events that are out of control of the risk- ...
Efficiency
Performance level describing a process which uses the lowest amount of inputs to come up with the greatest amount of inputs. It is relative to usin ...
Tax Free
Goods and/or financial products that are not taxable. Having the tax free status allows an entity to save money and encourages additional spending ...
Reprice
A situation that is most often allowed for company executives or high-level employees. It permits them to trade in their options that out of the mo ...
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