At least its pile of cash and pristine balance sheet and bond credit rating has not been affected.
The deal visibly improved its cash flow and balance sheet, lifting its credit rating and helping reduce borrowing costs.
It will balance the budget, maintain our credit rating, calm our creditors, restore business confidence, send unemployment tumbling, and, by the way, guarantee your reelection.
The rating agencies like the states to keep a balance of at least 5% of spending.
"Management at Merrill Lynch is focusing on the right issues for the rating: liquidity, capital and derisking the balance sheet, " said Peter Nerby, senior vice president at Moody's.
Still, Mr Archer managed to balance the budget and boost the city's credit rating while filling 1.1m potholes. (His office keeps track of that, too.) He put more police officers on the street.
It is widely believed that using guarantees to increase the firepower of the EFSF in either of these ways would impose so much additional strain on France's public-sector balance sheet that France is likely to lose its cherished AAA rating - which would then make the eurozone even more dependent on the financial strength of Germany.
The business is lost because big banking groups can use their strong balance sheets to offer loans and other products requiring a top credit rating, along with the usual investment-banking services.
Liabilities such as these, as well as pressure from credit-rating agencies, have led to an overhaul of Vivendi's balance sheet.
In fact, Tractor Supply is the only non-rated tenant and the company does not carry enough debt on its balance sheet to be rated. (effectively meaning an investment grade shadow rating would result in a portfolio that is 100 percent investment grade rated credit).
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The OECD and IMF have both warned of the need for a credible plan to bring the budget into balance, and ratings agency Standard and Poor's has said it is putting Britain's AAA credit rating on review until such a plan emerges.
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