Financial Markets: Issuers, Purchasers, and Purposes of High Yield, Non-investment Grade Bonds : Fact Sheet for Congressional Committees |
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૪ ૪ ૪ amounts of financing APPENDIX assets invested bridge loan California thrifts convertible bonds Convertible Convertible Convertible database debt debt Total December 31 Face Number Value Face Value FDIC Federal Reserve System FHLBB finance corporate takeovers finance hostile takeovers FSLIC Grade Bonds Issued high yield bonds high yield debt high yield securities IDD Information Services invested in high investment bankers investment grade bonds investors issued high yield June 30 junk bonds mergers and acquisitions Moody's mutual funds non-convertible bonds non-investment grade bonds non-investment grade rating Number of issuers Number Value millions Number Value Number pension funds Percent of total prospectuses publicly traded high purchasers of high rating category Savings and Loan September 1987 sources of financing Standard & Poor's Table IV.2 thrift institutions total amount financed total financing traded high yield white knight transactions yield bond investments yield bond issues yield bond market yield bond portfolio
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Page 17 - Bonds which are rated Ba are judged to have speculative elements; their future cannot be considered as well assured. Often the protection of interest and principal payments may be very moderate, and thereby not well safeguarded during both good and bad times over the future. Uncertainty of position characterizes bonds in this class.
Page 4 - The Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...
Page 17 - Caa are of poor standing. Such issues may be in default or there may be present elements of danger with respect to principal or interest. Ca Bonds which are rated Ca represent obligations which are speculative in a high degree. Such issues are often in default or have other marked shortcomings. Bonds which are rated C are the lowest rated class of bonds, and issues so rated can be regarded as having extremely poor prospects of ever attaining any real investment standing.
Page 17 - Moody's applies numerical modifiers, 1, 2 and 3 in each generic rating classification from Aa through B in its corporate bond rating system. The modifier 1 indicates that the security ranks in the higher end of its generic rating category; the modifier 2 indicates a mid-range ranking; and the modifier 3 indicates that the issue ranks in the lower end of its generic rating category.
Page 17 - B generally lack characteristics of the desirable investment. Assurance of interest and principal payments or of maintenance of other terms of the contract over any long period of time may be small. Caa Bonds which are rated Caa are of poor standing. Such issues may be in default or there may be present elements of danger with respect to principal or interest. Ca Bonds which are rated Ca represent obligations which are speculative in a high degree. Such issues are often in default or have other marked...
Page 14 - B may be modified by the addition of a plus or minus sign to show relative standing within the major rating categories.
Page 14 - CCC' has a currently identifiable vulnerability to default, and is dependent upon favorable business, financial, and economic conditions to meet timely payment of interest and repayment of principal In the event of adverse business, financial, or economic conditions, it is not likely to have the capacity to pay interest and repay principal. The 'CCC* rat category is also used for debt subordinated to ser debt that is assigned an actual or implied 'B" or 'B-
Page 14 - BB' is less vulnerable to nonpayment than other speculative issues. However, it faces major ongoing uncertainties or exposure to adverse business, financial, or economic conditions which could lead to the obligor's inadequate capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation. B An obligation rated 'B...
Page 37 - PROVISIONS.— corporate bylaw provisions requiring that certain decisions, such as approval of a merger, pass by vote of a "supermajority" (70 to 80 percent) of shareholders. TARGET. — the company that is the subject of a takeover bid. TENDER OFFER.— a public offer to buy some or all of the stock of a corporation within a specified time period. Notice of the offer must be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on schedule 14D-1, disclosing, among other things, certain financial information...
Page 14 - B Debt rated B has a greater vulnerability to default but currently has the capacity to meet interest payments and principal repayments. Adverse business, financial, or economic conditions will likely impair capacity or willingness to pay interest and repay principal. CCC Debt rated CCC...