 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1973 - 432 lapas
...rated Ba are judged to have speculative elements; their future cannot be considered as well-assured. Often the protection of interest and principal payments...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - 1980 - 644 lapas
...rated Ba are judged to have speculative elements; their future cannot be considered as well-assured. Often the protection of interest and principal payments...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - 1980 - 644 lapas
...be present elements of danger with respect to principal or interest. Ca Bonds which are rated C_£ represent obligations which are speculative in a high...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... | |
 | United States. General Accounting Office - 1988 - 44 lapas
...interest and principal payments may be very moderate and thereby not well safeguarded during other good and bad times over the future. Uncertainty of...often in default or have other marked shortcomings. (No bonds were rated in this category from 1982 to 1987.) C Bonds which are rated C are the lowest... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs - 1989 - 964 lapas
...Continued) Caa Bonds which are rated Caa are of poor standing. Such issues may bt in default or there Bay be present elements of danger with respect to principal...often in default or have other marked shortcomings. Standard and Poor's definition, which applies to the four classes of bonds that comprise "junk bonds... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs - 1990 - 1004 lapas
...be present elements of danger with respect to principal or interest. Ça Bonds which are rated Ça represent obligations which are speculative in a high...often in default or have other marked shortcomings. Standard and Poor's definition, which applies со Che four classes of bonds that comprise "junk bonds,"... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs - 1990 - 968 lapas
...N/A N/A $169,131 201,774 161,41! 233,256 348,590 351,068 283,374 327,126 276,580 (Footnote Continued) Caa Bonds which are rated Caa are of poor standing....often in default or have other marked shortcomings. Standard and Poor's definition, which applies to the four classes of bonds that comprise "junk bonds,"... | |
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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.... 
