More opportunities to raise even more debt thanks to their triple A credit rating.
It was banking on its Triple A credit rating to protect its holdings.
His response has been to triple a tax on foreign purchases of Brazilian bonds.
Yes, but these are all triple A titles, and every single one of them I want to play.
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He said he felt comfortable swinging the bat in extended spring-training games in Florida and five Triple A games.
The Journal said the rates were comparable to what a company with a triple A credit rating could command.
Nevertheless, it is highly damaging for the chancellor, who pinned much of his economic credibility on maintaining the triple A rating.
So far, it looks like most investors have shrugged off first-hand France losing its coveted triple A credit rating late Tuesday.
So-called double and triple A fixed income securities were packed with junk in such a way that the value of everything became suspect.
Meanwhile, Ackman was making another big bet, this time against bond insurer MBIA, whose triple A rating he questioned in a research report.
Around that same time Ackman was making another big bet, this time against bond insurer MBIA, whose triple A rating he questioned in a research report.
There will be significant funds from around the world who will liquidate their positions in US bonds and money markets if we lose triple A status.
Labour leader Ed Miliband mocked the chancellor's failure to make any reference to Britain's loss of its Triple A rating with credit agencies during his hour long budget speech.
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However, the market is most nervous about a downgrade and the global ramifications of the US losing its triple A status for the first time in its history.
Thus, the two firms retained their coveted triple A ratings.
Half would be reinvested in 30-year Greek government debt, with the remaining 20% put into triple A securities as a form of guarantee against losses on the Greek debt.
Game developers say the industry's economics are shifting, turning the business of cranking out ever costlier "Triple A" games with top-notch stories and graphics into an ever dicier proposition.
During the last 13 years, the triple A ratings of Japan, Italy, Ireland, Spain and Belgium have all been slashed with no meaningful impact to yields during the subsequent week.
The potential for a xenophobic party exists in every European state whether a country has a triple A credit rating, as the Netherlands does, or a country is on the brink of bankruptcy, as Greece is.
The Welsh theme continued during Prime Minister's Questions, with Labour's Albert Owen managing to slip a reference to next month's Wales versus England Six Nations match into a question about Britain losing its "triple A" economic rating.
Where many around him - even in his own party - saw the loss of the triple A as a humiliating failure, Mr Osborne decided to see it as further confirmation that he had been right all along.
While the UK has retained its triple A credit status throughout the financial crisis there been murmurings that its prized rating could go the way of France of and United Status, who both lost their top rating last year.
Steve Carell, who played office boss buffoon Michael Scott, wasn't expected to make an appearance but surprised fans at a celebration later outside the city at PNC Field, home of the New York Yankees' Triple A affiliate, The (Scranton) Times-Tribune reported.
For example, the difference between the average yield on a triple-B-rated municipal bond in the Bank of America Merrill Lynch municipal-bond index the low end of investment grade and a triple-A-rated one has dropped to just 2.64 percentage points, the smallest since 2010.
The AIG mess, then, is the result of denial about the level of risk, arrogance that the triple A credit rating is an absolute safety belt, greed about compensation that leads to reckless behavior and overall, a level of irrationality that approached insanity.
Imagine a baseball team with a veteran All-Star first baseman and a hot 22-year-old who has been tearing it up in Triple-A. They want to get their young prospect some playing time, but don't believe he'll really benefit much from another season facing Triple-A pitching.
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The deficit is not even forecast to get below 5% of GDP until 2016-17 - which is one reason why at least one ratings agency has decided that Britain's sovereign debt is no longer triple A. The deficit was 11% of national income when he took office, more than double what it was in 1979.
The United States does not deserve a triple-A rating, at least for long-term debt.
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