(South Korea has been investment grade for years.)

Non investment costs

In response, investment banks branched into new businesses like originating and distributing complex derivative securities.

And the credit crunch for non investment grade firms and smaller firms, which rely mostly on access to bank loans rather than capital markets, is still severe.

In Bolivia, the project promoted the use of such non traditional mining methods as low grade, high tonnage open pit mining and attracted investment to the country.

For banks, the assets typically include commercial and personal loans, mortgages, construction loans and investment securities.

True, India s government must now consider growing threats to the country s investment grade credit rating.

China s investment in US government securities and other sovereign debt will continue to yield extremely low returns.

quot Examination of the investment records and documents on the custody of the UNJSPF securities disclosed that the FTCI is the sole custodian of all the securities of the Fund.

The non pensionable component would be shown separately by grade and step.

Depending on their legal status and structure, the supervision of non profit organisations is carried out by the Australian Securities Investment Commission, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) or State and Territory authorities.

Moody's For Moody's, a bond is considered investment grade if its credit rating is Baa3 or higher.

China is worried that its more than 1 trillion investment in US Treasury securities will not hold its value.

Insecure Securities

Ratings agencies had incentives to give good ratings to the high risk securities produced by the investment banks that were paying them.

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An investment grade rating reflects the credit rating agencies' belief that the probability of payment of the bond is high and the financial risk associated with the investment is low.

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Investment banks and credit rating agencies believed in financial alchemy the notion that significant value could be created by slicing and dicing securities.

It was noted that improving the ratings of debt issuance to investment grade by securitization and other mechanisms could lead to opening the door to large global pools of institutional investment.

The result is, of course, paradoxical private funds that flow into these countries are recycled into US Treasury securities via investment of accumulated reserves.

Investment banks then earn fees for re packaging these securities in tranches of collateralized debt obligations, or CDO s (and sometimes into CDO s of CDO s).

Differences of opinion between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) had obstructed effective oversight of investment banks and derivatives trading (only the US believes that it makes sense to regulate securities and derivatives separately).

No big bank was at risk from trading securities then, but the big banks investment banking affiliates were not making money trading and underwriting securities during the Depression, so the banks were willing to surrender that part of their business.

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Article 32. Tender securities

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It's two fifth grade classes and two seventh grade classes.

Indeed, investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital are already inventing new types of securities to reduce the capital cost of holding risky assets.

Brazil s financial good behavior was rewarded as recently as April of this year when Standard Poor s raised its credit rating to investment grade.