The financial markets calculate the present value of future government revenues in order to determine creditworthiness.
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For decades, banks ignored creditworthiness and charged all customers virtually the same interest rates.
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 company works with 104 partners in 184 countries, which screen applicants for legitimacy and creditworthiness.
It said, though, that "the U.K.'s creditworthiness remains extremely high, " and its outlook was stable.
The downgrades left Portugal one notch above junk rating and Greece's creditworthiness below that of Egypt.
They should be praised for scrutinising creditworthiness at long last, not pilloried for being tight-fisted.
They all use different proprietary scoring models to assess creditworthiness, as does Fair Isaac Corp.
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The creditworthiness of smaller firms is more opaque still, since many cook their books.
The financial system, they say, faces a crisis not of creditworthiness, but of liquidity.
But they are a good indicator of a company's ability to assess consumer creditworthiness and risk.
The market seized up, creditworthiness came into question and defaults due to an inability to refinance soared.
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.
The world seems to be re-arranging itself around America's slightly diminished creditworthiness, not the other way around.
If people misjudge their creditworthiness, they might make financial choices that are not in their best interest.
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Indeed, concerns about Soviet creditworthiness were every bit as justified in December 1990 as they are today.
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.
Bankers must learn to lend on the basis of creditworthiness, rather than cronyism.
He had a large helping hand from public-sector banks, which provided bigger loans than Fininvest's creditworthiness seemed to merit.
He suggests evaluating their creditworthiness in a new way that takes into account the value of their intellectual property.
The introduction of central clearing also makes the creditworthiness of counterparties less significant.
The denizens lack any credit history, so Azteca's lenders assess creditworthiness by inspecting the customers' homes and interviewing their neighbors.
In the case of countries, agencies are assessing their creditworthiness - their ability to pay back money lent to them.
Most of the doubts about creditworthiness have centred on car companies and, of late (thank you, Mr Spitzer), on insurers.
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