"The merry-go-round will stop, and they are not all going to get financing, " said Eric Thompson, a managing director at Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

WSJ: Commercial Property Owners Facing Higher Rates

Over the past year, Kroll Bond Rating Agency, Inc. (KBRA) has staked out a claim in the highly-profitable and much-criticized world of credit ratings.

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Even so, Anadarko bond investors, fearing rating agency downgrades, have sold the paper in recent days.

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In order to render a legal opinion that will satisfy the parties and necessary third-parties such as a rating agency for a bond securitization, a whole host of issues arise that cannot be rationally addressed for at least two reasons: One, certain transaction restrictions applicable to SCF are considered divine and unalterable.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Shariah��s Black Box

The credit rating agency noted that the bond buyback that the Hellenic Republic is conducting as a prerequisite to getting the next tranche of bailout aid from the Troika constitutes a distressed debt restructuring, which in their books means default.

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Brokerage statements never disclose when the rating agency last looked at and studied your specific bond issues.

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The Fitch credit agency has taken away its triple-A rating, a veritable death knell for a bond insurer.

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