Some particularly poor performing acute trusts were highlighted: Barking, Havering and Redbridge hospitals received a double weak rating, while the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust was deemed weak for the fourth year in a row.
The rating is in effect, double the highest possible rating on the normal chart, and considerably higher than consumers are accustomed to seeing on suntan lotion bottles.
It is mostly higher-rated paper with 28 of the combined 31 deals carrying at least one double-B rating.
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In a see-saw motion, deals with at least one double-B rating fell from 39% of the total in September to just 15% last month while those with at least one triple-C rose to 33%, from 24%.
If they put this on at halftime of the playoff games and called it As the Knicks Turn, the rating would double.
Polls regularly show that Congress has an approval rating barely in double figures, far worse than the president's.
Fitch Ratings cut FGIC's financial strength rating Wednesday to double-A from triple-A, and it did the same to Ambac earlier this month.
Rowe's backwoods runs require skiers to slither through tight tree lines on slopes steep enough to warrant a double-black-diamond rating out West.
The investors are likely to pull the raw information about a borrower, roll up their sleeves, and analyze the credit quality themselves, either as a primary decision-making tool, or as a double-check on the rating.
It's reassuring to know that, even with Congress' job approval rating in the low double digits, a seat in the U.S. Senate is still considered a prized possession.
John Fitzgibbon, IPO Scoop president, said he didn't award Facebook the highest rating because such a rating is reserved for deals that have the potential to double their offering prices in the first day of trading.
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