investment grade
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Investment grade describes bonds or other debt securities rated high enough to be considered relatively safe investments.
Rating agencies like Moody's and Standard & Poor's assign grades; securities above a certain threshold qualify as investment grade, while those below are called junk bonds or high-yield.
Many institutional investors are restricted to holding only investment-grade securities: The company's bonds were downgraded below investment grade.
- credit ratingAssigned measure of borrower reliability
- credit scoreNumerical measure of borrower reliability
- corporate bondsDebt issued by businesses
- blue chipStable, reputable investment
- junk bondsLow-rated corporate securities
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- financial termswealth, asset, currency, balance sheet, audit
- bulliongold bar, gold ingot, silver bar, gold coin, silver ingot
- diamond termscarat weight, certificate
- grading termsmint, near mint, excellent, very good, good
- Triple-A thingsbond rating, AAA games, AAA battery, top tier
- credit ratingsAAA, AA, A, BBB, B
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Worthless discarded items
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