Betekenis van:
junk bond

Voorbeeldzinnen

1. Junk bond dealers left the market riding on a pillow of air.
2. Thus, the guarantee improved the prospects attaching to France Télécom's credit rating and enabled it to avoid junk-bond classification.
3. [47]. Another report stated that ‘Especially in the latter half of last year, it was nearly impossible for a company to issue junk bonds based on its own credit and the junk bonds market existed through primary collateralised bond obligations, collateral loan obligations and a government-initiated bond-refinancing plan.’ [48].
4. In fact, the State ' s intervention had the effect of preventing any downgrading of the Company ' s credit rating to that of junk bond status, as is, moreover, clearly stated in S & P ' s press release of 12 July 2002, where the assurances provided by the State are hailed as being a key factor in France Télécom's not being reduced to junk bond status.
5. Another report stated that ‘Especially in the latter half of last year, it was nearly impossible for a company to issue junk bonds based on its own credit and the junk bonds market existed through primary collateralised bond obligations, collateral loan obligations and a government-initiated bond-refinancing plan.’
6. This downgrade was nevertheless limited to a rating still qualifying as investment grade: any further downgrade would have led to the Company's debt being accorded junk-bond status, as being no longer of investment grade.
7. Again on this point, Bouygues Telecom states that the guarantee had the effect of enabling France Télécom to gain renewed access to the financial markets. Thus, the guarantee improved the prospects attaching to France Télécom's credit rating and enabled it to avoid junk-bond classification.
8. The fact that France Télécom's rating was being kept at investment grade was commented on by Goldman Sachs in a report dated 22 July 2002, which states that France Télécom was about to be downgraded to junk-bond level by S & P and Moody's.
9. The lowest point in the downgrading of France Télécom's credit rating was reached on 24 June 2002 when Moody's downgraded the Company's rating to just above that of junk bond, thereby making it very difficult for it to refinance its debt.
10. As mentioned above, the rating agencies downgraded France Télécom's rating during the months of June and July 2002 to just above that of junk bond, stating in their press release that the rating would have been lower still had it been based solely on France Télécom's fundamentals.
11. These circumstances show, in the Commission ' s opinion, that the State had to act urgently to reassure the market and to prevent any further downgrading of France Télécom ' s credit rating to that of junk bond status, as this would have had a highly negative impact on the Company ' s financial situation.
12. Thus, the Commission confirms its original finding that Hynix fell short of the investment grade required by investors for the junk bond market; and that, during the IP, the type of capital markets referred to by the Panel were inaccessible to companies with prospects as weak as those of Hynix.
13. The Commission would point out in this connection that the State's declarations were decisive in maintaining the Company's investment-grade credit quality and that a junk bond rating would have made the shareholder loan more unlikely and certainly much more costly.
14. ECTA is of the opinion that the following measures constitute state aid: (i) the ministerial declarations of July and October 2002 informing the market that the State would not leave France Télécom in financial difficulties; (ii) the acceptance by the State of the payment of dividends for 2001 in shares and not in cash; (iii) the granting of a EUR 9 billion credit line and the advance commitment by the State to take part in the future capital increase; (iv) the provision by the State of a state guarantee for the benefit of ERAP enabling the latter to borrow on the markets at a rate of 3,375 % instead of the 10,4-10,9 % applicable to a company with junk bond status; and (v) the apparent transfer of France Télécom's employees within ERAP despite the fact that they continue to work for France Télécom.