As of Thursday, a 5 year AAA corporate bond has an interest rate of 1.21% and a 5 year AAA muni bond has an interest rate of 0.93%.
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Some people want a McDonald's world and others want a AAA Michelin star-rated restaurant.
Powering a car with electricity takes more than a few AAA cells, but it can be done.
Heat up your holidays in Arizona with a discounted stay at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess, a AAA Five Diamond resort.
Pennsylvania returned a wedding ring to a man, using an expired AAA membership card attached to a key ring found with the wedding band.
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It calculates an intrinsic value by discounting a stream of future earnings back to the present, using a discount rate that is a function of both Aaa bond yields and the creditworthiness of the target company.
John Riccitiello, CEO of EA, recently held a call with investors to reassure them that despite a bad year, there will still be a market for big AAA games, particularly when the next generation of consoles are released.
The Grand Velas is a AAA five diamond property with on-site restaurants garnering four-diamond status.
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The U.S. has not been a AAA-rated nation in the absolute sense for a while.
And both will run for about six hours on a single AAA battery.
The UK currently holds a AAA rating from all three agencies - the only country apart from Germany and Canada to do so.
Unusually they are powered by a single AAA battery, that you sneak into the slightly bulbous section in the middle of the band.
Mr Riley warned that if this was to rise to 100%, "in our view that is not really consistent with the UK retaining a AAA rating".
Under these circumstances, a AAA rating is no longer warranted.
Essentially, this money machine used extreme diversity and interlinking of transactions plus the insurance (credit default swaps) to give the appearance of reducing risk such that there could be a AAA rating.
Germany and Canada are the only major economies to currently have a top AAA rating, as much of the world has been shaken by the financial crisis of 2008 and its subsequent debt crises.
To see a beloved AAA title offered for free might stir the hearts of other publishers to do the same, or at the very least spur them to try the model for themselves in order to compete.
Among the EFSF's guarantors, only Finland retains a stable AAA. And there is no way that the EFSF's AAA can be sustained by small but fiscally super-strong Finland alone (Finland, like its non-EU neighbour Norway, has no net debt at all on a net basis).
Failure to reach agreement on raising the debt ceiling in a timely manner would prompt a review of our AAA credit rating, Fitch warned.
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To return to Moody's for a second, it is difficult to see Germany retaining its AAA rating in the immediate aftermath of a eurozone breakup or in the transition phase to a United States of Europe - though it might well get the AAA back in both cases, in time.
Moody's were quick to slap ratings on the company just a notch below the bulletproof AAA rating held by only a handful of corporations.
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If you buy dinner from a three-star Michelin restaurant you can be confident of getting a good meal, but today if you buy a bond from an AAA-rated borrower you can be rather less sure of getting your money back.
After collapsing to a mere handful of buyers in recent months in response to market jitters, managers say a broader base of AAA investors is necessary to bring down funding costs and expand deal capacity.
With a lot of AAA games, you consume them and move onto the next one.
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Some might welcome such a change given the loss in market value for bondholders as a result of the downgrading of AAA bonds.
The Bear Stearns fund performance "reflects the unprecedented declines in the valuations of a number of highly rated (AA and AAA) securities, " Bear Stearns told investors in a letter circulated late Tuesday.
That fear, of a loss of the AAA, has not diminished, and looks likely to happen in early 2013.
They consistently rated shares in securitized pools of mortgages, even subprime and Alt A mortgages, as AAA, causing the downfall of major financial institutions.
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