In the sovereign debt space, which is government bonds, the debt ratings of developed countries remain under pressure for downgrading, including in the U.K., France and as we all know now, here in the U.S. But emerging markets, which have enjoyed back-to-back years of credit rating upgrades are seeing those upgrade numbers dwindle, with some negative outlooks in some developing nations.
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Bling Nation is looking to change that with its service, which pairs RFID-enabled stickers with a back-end system that charges purchases to credit cards (via PayPal) and sends text-message receipts to cellphones.
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Nonetheless, Beijing is responding with tough anti-inflation rhetoric and normalization of credit and liquidity flows back to pre-stimulus levels.
The purpose of bond insurance is to enable municipalities with lower credit ratings to piggy-back on the higher rating of the insurer, lowering their borrowing costs.
Ms. Menendez's run-ins with police dated back to 2000, when she was arrested on a charge of using a stolen credit-card number to make a purchase, the law-enforcement official said.
One of the banks' most alluring offers to companies that give them such business is to furnish them with back-up lines of credit.
After the investigation, Mr. Angelastri sent the report back to his credit-card processing company.
It will be asked - perhaps by the credit ratings agencies - why would anyone voluntarily not want their money to be paid back in full or on time?
She also gave up collecting airline miles completely, switching her credit card to cash-back rewards.
If you use plastic for the bulk of your spending, it's easy to assume that credit cards with cash-back features are a dream come true.
Lower oil prices, sagging demand for energy and hard-to-get credit have caused many firms to cut back on renewables worldwide.
Once again expectations will be high among the French public and at Credit Agricole he should have the back-up to compete.
Vivendi's stated goal is to persuade the credit-rating agencies to raise its debt back up to investment grade.
The price crept up by around 15%, putting it out of the reach of first-time buyers with no regular employment or payslips to back an application for credit.
The policy there is massive intervention to force-feed credit markets and then a selective pull-back (as lately was with housing in some markets) lest the pump be primed too well.
For example, the path breaking work of Muhammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank shows that small micro-credit loans given to women are nearly always paid back and that the funds are used to invest in businesses, that provide funds to educate children and lift families out of poverty.
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He sent it back to the Legislature with new wording that called for the property-tax credit.
But the tickets do not exist and out-of-pocket customers are told to use consumer legislation to get money back from their credit card companies.
The credit was also available in 2010, and a nervous IRS is now warning taxpayers they must complete Schedule M on their 1040s (or the worksheet for line 8 on the back of the 1040-EZ) to make sure they got the proper amount of credit in their paychecks.
The last time the housing market seemed to be in recovery mode was back in mid-2010, after the first-time homebuyer tax credit boosted demand for homes.
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The standing of the fund relies on the credit of the countries that back it, including France, which is threatened with a two-notch downgrade to its AAA credit rating by Standard and Poor's.
That's why we need Ben Bernanke to continue the work he's doing, and that's why I've said that we cannot go back to an economy based on overleveraged banks, inflated profits, and maxed-out credit cards.
These days, though, banks demand bigger down-payments and better credit scores to lessen the risk of having to buy back a delinquent loan from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the now government-controlled agencies that securitise and guarantee most residential mortgages.
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It's a similar dynamic to what is happening with Wall Street banks that committed to fund leveraged buyouts, only to have trouble selling those loans in the syndicated loan market--they have to hold them on balance sheet until the credit markets come back to life.
The winds of change swept Lyondell back to the credit markets this week though, with one of the largest junk-bond deals this year.
Steve Dulake, head of credit strategy at JPMorgan, says yield-hungry investors were prepared to back riskier companies in 2005 and 2006 and that businesses with highly cyclical records were the targets of leveraged buy-outs.
But as long as they had at least a gold credit card and a solid professional or civil-service job to go back to, they were free to come to Japan, to shop until they dropped.
Some prominent credit-card issuers, eager to keep customers happy, are beginning to pull back on fees.
Again, China was only at 1976 U.S. air passenger traffic levels in 2009 (and decades further back as a percentage of the population), and Credit Suisse projects China to reach 1986-1987 U.S. levels, or 432 million people, by 2015.
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