Unless equity markets rally strongly, says Fitch, the creditworthiness of life insurers will be further downgraded.
Because derivatives are traded in liquid markets, they rapidly transmit information about the creditworthiness of borrowers.
The creditworthiness of smaller firms is more opaque still, since many cook their books.
Worries about the creditworthiness of governments on both sides of the Atlantic have slowed trading in bonds.
Enlarging the euro zone's rescue funds raises questions about the creditworthiness of even its most solid backers.
Funding Circle assesses at the creditworthiness of businesses and then their loan is posted on its marketplace.
If the crisis were simply about the creditworthiness of underlying assets, that question would be simpler to answer.
Credit-rating agencies will also examine how to judge the creditworthiness of these things.
That is, it was a bet that the creditworthiness of the portfolio would improve and yields would go down.
Both companies guarantee the creditworthiness of these bonds, but not the interest-rate risk.
The introduction of central clearing also makes the creditworthiness of counterparties less significant.
Clearly, the U.S. taxpayer is entitled to a full assessment of the creditworthiness and spending practices of so significant a would-be borrower.
Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy.
Most of all, each rescue discourages investors from worrying about the creditworthiness of those they trade with and thus encourages the next excess.
But the creditworthiness of some underlying names has lessened, reckons Ms Purtle.
It also owns a large stake in eCredit, which serves exchanges' users by helping them to judge the creditworthiness of the counterparties to a trade.
The creditworthiness of companies tapping the capital markets has been declining.
Debt investors are usually sober types, but as the bubble grew, it was increasingly their urges, and not the creditworthiness of homeowners, that determined loan-underwriting standards.
Armed with these guesses, banks must then try to figure out how much the creditworthiness of one group of companies is related to that of another.
Let's put aside the sorry record of Moody's and its brethren in inaccurately assessing the creditworthiness of all those packages of subprime mortgages and other exotic instruments.
After all, haven't we been receiving all these "safe haven" capital flows, every time the financial markets panic about the creditworthiness of Greece, Italy or the rest?
The country's biggest banks have their own internal models that try to link the amount of capital put against a loan to the creditworthiness of the borrower.
The new rules require that the President certify the creditworthiness of any nation before it can qualify for the borrowing program, but the rules set no guidelines for determining creditworthiness.
If the turnaround effort fails, Detroit could be forced into the nation's largest municipal bankruptcy, a filing that could have ripple effects on the creditworthiness of the state and beyond.
This practice hides the creditworthiness of the borrower.
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It calculates an intrinsic value by discounting a stream of future earnings back to the present, using a discount rate that is a function of both Aaa bond yields and the creditworthiness of the target company.
In terms of the greatest threat to the various asset classes, equity investors believe that European banking crisis contagion will be the key risk to global equities, while rates investors view the biggest risk to US, German and UK sovereign debt markets to be uncertainty over the creditworthiness of these countries.
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Rather than beginning with the Big 3 and asking how we can change them (the default path used by our legislators), I begin with a blank slate and ask: do we have any institutions in this country or elsewhere with the resources to credibly assess the creditworthiness of nations and corporations?
The Senate also rejected an amendment that would outright ban naked credit default swaps, which basically are a bet on the future creditworthiness of a company or debt issuer. (The House version of financial reform did ban naked credit default swaps).
Few see the inherent absurdity in the notion that taking on more debt improves the economic health and creditworthiness of the United States.
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