Image by Â©iStock.com/nicoolay. Marijuanaâalso called weed, herb, pot, grass, bud, ganja, Mary Jane, and a vast number of other slang termsâis a greenish-gray mixture of the dried, shredded leaves and flowers of Cannabis sativa, the hemp plant.
Municipal Bond Ratings. What is a Bond Rating. A bond rating performs the isolated function of credit risk evaluation. A bond rating does not constitute a recommendation to invest in a bond and does not take into consideration the risk preference of the investor. While many factors go into the investment decision making process, the bond rating is often the single most important factor affecting the interest cost on bonds.
Municipal bonds are instruments issued by local, state, or federal governments in the United States. Until April-May 2010 Moody's and Fitch were rating municipal bonds on the separate naming/classification system which mirrored the tiers for corporate bonds. S&P abolished dual rating system in 2000.