junk bond status

基本解释

The average bond rating fell from A in 1981 to BBB- today, just one notch above junk status.
债券平均评级已经从1981年的A滑落至如今的BBB-，距垃圾债不过一步之遥。
GM debt, once considered the highest investment grade, has tumbled to low-rated, junk-bond status.
曾被认为是最高投资级别的通用汽车债券已经降到了垃圾级。
At worst, Moody's says, the vast majority of tranches insuch CDOs would be downgraded to junk-bond status.
Moody’s称，在最差的情况下，那些抵押债权各种主流的资金层将被降级到垃圾债券的状况。

With enough think tanks in Washington rehabilitating gold as a respectable monetary anchor and ratings agencies threatening to reduce T-bills to junk bond status, hard money will have its day in court.
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Then the mayor flew to Wall Street, which he boasted he would so impress with his forceful ideas that it would upgrade Miami's bond-rating from junk status. (It listened politely but remained unmoved.) It was then that a columnist, Carl Hiaasen, advised the mayor in the Miami Herald that, while in New York, he should visit Bellevue, an insane asylum of legend.
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Many of her highly leveraged companies are severely troubled and as a result her once triple-AAA bond deals have been reduced to junk status.
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