"We expect economic slowing and belt-tightening, but we don't see this falloff as being as precipitous as it was in 2001, " says Robert Kurtter, a managing director at Moody's (nyse: MCO - news - people ) muni bond rating service.
But somehow, the incipient breakup of the bedrock bond between citizen and postal service makes me a bit sad.
Dale figures the BlackBerry's superior email service has helped it bond with the stars.
Nina Olson, the national tax advocate, whose job at the IRS is to protect taxpayers' interests, has called for new laws that would require a third-party payroll service to post a bond for its clients that would cover any lost tax payments.
Amazon has built a strong bond with its customers through great customer service, convenience and broad product offering.
Late in the 1980s an American junk-bond borrower could shout its incapacity to service its debts from the rooftops.
For employers using a payroll service, ask your payroll service if it has a fiduciary bond.
Perhaps not in some derivatives products, where counterparty risks make an electronic-broking service difficult, but certainly in bond markets.
The target was designed to keep big borrowers like Brazil from defaulting on their debt service by budgeting enough money to cover bond interest to foreign investors.
SAB, in late April saw credit-rating firms, including HR Ratings and Moody's Investors Service, downgrade the company further into junk-bond territory.
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Debtor companies also face bond covenants restricting their activities to ensure that they can continue to service their debts.
Almost all have benefited from the tight bond that exists between the top ranks of France's civil service and the country's senior executives.
While many remember dramatic Swiss Alps ski scenes with machine guns setting off avalanches, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" opens on the beaches of Portugal, with James Bond staying at the Hotel Palacio overlooking the Bay of Cascais.
In his statement Mr Micalizzi said he had relied on "a sophisticated structure of service providers and market participants to conduct an ongoing due diligence of the bond transaction".
Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings each downgraded Kodak's debt deeper into junk-bond territory this week.
Foreign investment flows into emerging market stocks and bond funds slowed in the week to March 7, according to EPFR Global, a fund tracking service in Cambridge, Mass.
James Bond fans may remember it as backdrop for scenes in the 1969 movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
But, as the central bank has recognised, there is also scope for cutting the debt-service burden by improving the management of debt issues, and by increasing the liquidity of government-bond markets.
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