The yield on 10-year AAA munis closed at 2.76% (89% of U.S. treasuries) while the 30-year AAA yields around 4.36% (100% of Treasuries).
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The securities carried AAA ratings, and yet offered much higher yields than other AAA-rated, non-MBS securities.
The Fed will exchange the Treasury notes for other securities, including federal agency debt, federal agency residential mortgage-backed securities and nonagency AAA-rated private-label residential mortgage-backed securities.
Nashville has one of the best hotels for a city its size in the world, the Forbes 5-Star, AAA 5-Diamond Hermitage, in the heart of downtown.
This facility will provide three-year term loans to investors against AAA-rated securities backed by recently originated consumer and small-business loans.
But the tragedy is not that dishonest borrowers and brokers signed off on liar-loans, greedy bankers packaged time bombs, yield hungry speculators bet on AAA-rated trash or that pandering politicians let taxpayers guarantee mortgages in the first place.
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After all, it is a Forbes 5-Star property (and AAA 5-Diamond).
Because they were AAA-rated and yielded a premium over the banks' cost of capital.
The U.S. has not been a AAA-rated nation in the absolute sense for a while.
Because if you were, you know, an AAA-rated corporation, you didn't have any problem borrowing money.
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AAA-rated private-sector bank, faces no pressure to list on the Dutch stockmarket to raise capital.
The college is currently in the transition process from NCAA Division I-AAA to NCAA Division III membership.
For holders of other non triple-AAA sovereigns, the deal in the EU is good but not that good.
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AAA-rated muni bond maturing in five years is yielding around 1.8% now, which is about the same as five-year Treasury bonds.
Warren says Wells Fargo is "the only AAA-rated bank in the country" and that it has strong capital levels.
Faced with strong external demand for AAA-rated assets, the financial system got creative.
So, non-AAA CDS writers had to pay up their losses day by day.
The rules created an incentive for banks to hold AAA-rated securities, which require less capital to be held against them.
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The credit rating agency put these five and Ireland with negative outlooks, joining the ranks of Portugal and AAA-rated France.
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Triaxx hit the market in 2006 as an AAA-rated security that was reportedly sold to investors as having little subprime exposure.
Kovitz is betting that, as the economy improves, it will become clear that the insurance accounts backing AAA-rated insured muni bonds are mostly solvent.
Also, if a bank turned stinky subprime loans into AAA-rated bonds, again it could massage down the capital it needed to hold.
Many of those that failed did so because they had purchased AAA-rated mortgage-backed securities thought to be both sound and liquid investments.
"He only stayed in the finest quality AAA-rated campgrounds, " the obit reads.
Investors flocked to AAA-rated firms such as American International Group, which could take big risks without having to post collateral with counterparties.
Ask for recommendations from friends, and look for AAA-approved auto repair facilities.
It has the biggest debt and deficit ratios among the euro zone's AAA-rated countries, and its banks are dangerously exposed to southern Europe.
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That secondary market was rocked as the housing boom ended, more borrowers defaulted and thousands of AAA-rated securities based on those debt obligations tumbled.
Although they tended to buy AAA-rated paper, that designation is not as reliable as it used to be, as the credit crunch has shown.
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