Some bond funds will only buy investment-grade bonds.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Do You Rate A Country?] Reference

David Trahan, head of U.S. investment-grade syndicate at.    From Wordnik.com.  [J] Reference

Fitch's ratings are three steps from investment-grade territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Governments Help Ford Cut Debt] Reference

Moody's rates Iceland at Baa3, its lowest investment-grade rating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iceland Cuts Key Interest Rate] Reference

The day's investment-grade total, which was bolstered by deals from.    From Wordnik.com.  [IBM, Others Find Eager Buyers for Debt] Reference

Investors are fleeing to the safety of investment-grade corporate bonds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corporate-Bond Rally Killers] Reference

Most ratings remained unchanged, and generally at investment-grade levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Colleges See Bonds Downgraded] Reference

A deluge of new investment-grade bonds flooded the market on Tuesday, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dell, Home Depot Lead Flood of Debt] Reference

Both whole - and universal-life policies invest primarily in investment-grade bonds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consumers Pile In to Life Insurance With Investment Aims] Reference

It helps that bond supply from non-financial investment-grade companies is anemic at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corporate Bonds Still Winning Friends] Reference

In another blow, Fitch Ratings recently stripped ProLogis of its investment-grade rating.    From Wordnik.com.  [ProLogis Comes to a Crossroads in Its Recovery] Reference

We became the first company to be granted investment-grade rating before its home country.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘You Have to Prove Yourself’] Reference

"If the economy starts to recover," he says, "the low investment-grade yields will look silly.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Corporate-Bond Rally Killers] Reference

Corp., for example, issued 10-year investment-grade bonds yielding just below 3.5% on Wednesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asia's Bond Issuers Target Record Year] Reference

Moody's has retained its Baa3 or lowest investment-grade rating on India's foreign-currency debt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moody's Upgrades India Local Currency Rating] Reference

Ben Garber said investment-grade bond sales in September may approach or exceed the year's peak month so far.    From Wordnik.com.  [After Labor Day, the Debt Deluge] Reference

Lewis Booth are on a drive to get back the auto maker's investment-grade credit rating, which it lost in 2005.    From Wordnik.com.  [Governments Help Ford Cut Debt] Reference

Jonathan Fine, managing director in U.S. investment-grade syndicate, will now run the high-grade syndicate desk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goldman Names Esposito Investment-Banking COO] Reference

The flurry has sent investment-grade corporate bonds soaring 7.1% this year, versus a 2.3% loss for the Standard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corporate-Bond Rally Killers] Reference

And the ratings agencies again stripped the firm of the investment-grade rating it had worked for years to restore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Look at Macy's: U.S. tax code encourages companies to rack up huge debt] Reference

Last year Moody's, the credit-risk agency, gave Mexico an investment-grade rating for the first time in its history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banking On Mexico's Future] Reference

Fitch Ratings on Friday downgraded Greece's credit ratings to the lowest ring of investment-grade ratings, BBB minus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold Hits Four-Month High] Reference

Friday, Fitch Ratings cut its rating for Greece by two notches to triple-B-minus, the lowest investment-grade rating.    From Wordnik.com.  [EU Finalizing Terms of Any Greek Aid] Reference

"On the investment-grade side, companies generally don't need the money, but that's exactly when you're supposed to borrow it," said.    From Wordnik.com.  [After Labor Day, the Debt Deluge] Reference

He previously was the global head of the firm's investment-grade and public-sector financing and infrastructure financing businesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goldman Names Esposito Investment-Banking COO] Reference

That was the third-highest day for U. S.-marketed investment-grade bonds this year and the highest daily volume since Feb. 4, it said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Investment-Grade Bond Market Booms] Reference

Ford has been using low-cost, government-backed loans to help it repay private borrowings as it seeks a return to investment-grade credit.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's News: Business] Reference

Interest rates are so low that the dividend yield on large-cap stocks is competitive with the yield on on investment-grade corporate bonds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yes, it may finally be time to get back into stocks] Reference