bond rating agencies
Definition
US firms such as Duff & Phelps/MCM, Fitch Investors Service, Moody's Investors Service, and Standard & Poor's Corp. These private firms rate corporate and municipal bonds (and other securities) on the basis of the associated degree of risk, and sell the ratings for publication in the financial press and daily newspapers. See also investment advisory service.
bond rating agencies is in the Banking, Commerce & Finance, Investing and Securities & Futures Trading subjects.
bond rating agencies appears in the definitions of the following terms:
speculative grade,
bond ratings,
rating,
investment grade bond,
junk bond,
callable bond,
rating agency,
Moody's Investors Service,
investment grade,
speculative security
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