The AA-rated 30-year bonds were sold this past April to yield at least 3.5%.
Mellon created Alcoa (nyse: AA - news - people ) and Gulf Oil.
Weight Watchers had started a decade earlier offering AA-like support groups for membership fees.
France is highly likely, with the U.S. also at a risk of going to AA-.
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Its AA-plus long- term credit rating is better than those of Microsoft and Boeing.
Its government's yuan debt is now rated AA-, just three notches below the safest mark.
Alcoa 's (nyse: AA - news - people ) stock price has also soared.
Alcoa ( AA - news - people ) during his remarkable tenure as CEO there.
However, 10-year AA-rated municipal bonds are not earning close to 6 percent.
Alcoa (nyse: AA - news - people ) lined up a 30-year electricity supply before sinking capital into Massena, N.
He ran Alcoa Inc (nyse: AA - news - people ). just fine as its CEO from 1987 to 1999.
Spain, on the other hand, has seen a significant worsening of its fiscal and economic outlook, meriting a cut from A to AA-.
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Stick with AA-rated, general obligation bonds, or bonds that are backed by services that are crucial to the municipality like water or power bonds.
Only two years ago, at the beginning of 2011, one could buy a twenty year AA-rated municipal bond with a yield of 5.25 percent.
The IOUs were rated AAA but yielded 100 basis points (that is, a full percentage point) more than comparable maturity AA-rated corporates at the time.
The camera's 3-inch monitor, ergonomic design, along with the convenience of AA-size batteries and a dedicated video button make it easy and fun for users to shoot comfortably.
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With the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP), a viable inside sales industry association in place for five years, inside sales is an industry rapidly maturing.
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Meanwhile, Alcoa (nyse: AA - news - people ) will officially kick off the start of another earnings season when it releases its quarterly results.
Options on Alcoa (nyse: AA - news - people ) saw heavy two-way trading this week in what may be bets that volatility may soon subside.
It may sound AA-ish, but acknowledging that you're unnecessarily checking your phone -- and that there are repercussions to doing so -- is the first step toward breaking the habit.
Plus, world trade is conducted in dollars, so long as the dollar remains the global benchmark currency, going from AAA to AA and maybe even AA- someday will unlikely impact demand for U.S. government bonds.
Just 12.2mm slim (measurement excludes lens cover), which is smaller than the thickness of a standard AA-size battery, the Cyber-shot TX55 is the world's thinnest camera in its class (among cameras with an optical anti-shake function).
The membership of The American Association of Inside Sales Professionals ( AA-ISP) boasts companies like IBM, ADP, 3M, Abbot, Cisco, Dupont, EMC, FedEx, Hershey, HON Company, Level 3, LexisNexis, McGraw-Hill, McKesson, Oracle, Pfizer, and salesforce.com to mention a few.
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During my time as chief executive at Alcoa (nyse: AA - news - people ), we demonstrated it is possible to cut costs 30% to 50% in a complex organization through systems improvements and by focusing on safety.
There will be demand for basic, isolated entry-level models for many years to come, especially in developing countries, where AA-powered gadgets are still the norm and surfing the web means a 20-minute trek to an internet cafe, where browsing and social updates are billed by the minute.
ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, Alcoa (nyse: AA - news - people ), DeBeers and 33 other companies are supporters of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), an international effort by businesses, countries and non-governmental organizations to shed light on what companies pay to governments for a share of their natural resources.
For years, football teams in Division 1-AA, sorry, the Football Championship Subdivision, have had a playoff.
Why were the fifth-ranked Wolverines, with their glorious football history, playing an NCAA Division 1-AA team?
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