Bonds that are not rated as investment-grade bonds are known as high yield bonds or more derisively as junk bonds.
In this arena, the debts are called investment grade by the rating agencies.
While the company's debt rating was still considered investment-grade, its bonds were trading at levels slightly less, making future sales problematic.
One of the characteristics of many of the countries with an investment-grade rating is the relatively low volatility of economic activity.
The consolidation of investment-grade status will be one of the challenges in this decade.
Financial assets with an investment-grade rating are considered to be low risk, that is, they are assets associated with a low default probability.
There is a proposal to require other public electricity suppliers in every case to seek and maintain investment-grade credit ratings, and to prohibit cross-default provisions in any borrowing agreement.
Those securities obtaining cash first received investment-grade ratings from rating agencies.
