Battery troubles pose the single biggest reason for AAA response calls during the summer, according to AAA. Another common problem is overheated vehicles--especially big rigs towing boats, say, or ATVs.
The securities carried AAA ratings, and yet offered much higher yields than other AAA-rated, non-MBS securities.
Well, the banks only held onto these bonds, the AAA tranches, because they really did think that they were AAA. That they were great investments.
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).
Italy and Spain were both AAA rated in the 1990s, but Spain was actually raised back to AAA before losing it again in 2009.
But what would really matter about Austria and France losing their AAA is that the downgrade would almost inevitably lead to the loss of the linked AAA held by the eurozone's bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility.
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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The U.S. is not the first country in recent years to lose its AAA credit rating and the U.S. can have its credit rating raised back to AAA in the future as well in a similar fashion to what has taken place in other countries.
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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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.
An ultrasound, however, turned up a more serious condition: an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA).
The Grand Velas is a AAA five diamond property with on-site restaurants garnering four-diamond status.
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Because they were AAA-rated and yielded a premium over the banks' cost of capital.
Fitch ratings today affirmed France AAA rating but revised its outlook to negative from stable.
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The U.S. has not been a AAA-rated nation in the absolute sense for a while.
So what's going to be the damage from the loss of the cherished AAA?
He says French officials are smarting from the expected imminent loss of their cherished AAA rating.
According to AAA, 45% of the 56.2 cents per mile cost is due to first-year depreciation.
The new speedlight is easy-to-use and travel friendly, and also uses common AAA batteries.
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His approach is often parodied, somewhat uncharitably, as making AAA in the mould of B-movies.
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But AAA spokesman Jeff Sundstrom says familiarity doesn't make the high prices any easier to take.
AAA's Sundstrom says from a driver's perspective, politicians need to rethink the nation's energy policy.
While AAA and Disney are targeting consumers, Sprint also expects to sell ID phones to businesses.
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The fixed costs of AAA game production will be too great to support the diminished market.
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Ten-year AAA benchmark Municipal yields are at 2.66% and that on the 30-year at 4.30%.
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Insurance company AAA Mid-Atlantic recently cited a case involving a thief in Bethesda, Md.
Fact is AAA video game release schedules are now similar to that of movies seeking Oscars.
Ten-year AAA yields closed unchanged on Friday at 2.38% versus 2.49% for 10-year treasuries (95.6% ratio).
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The single-player campaign, for all its AAA glitz and gunfire, is a pretty uninspiring experience.
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