Word: duns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issues traded daily over-the-counter represent companies that are not sufficiently large, seasoned or profitable to be listed on the major exchanges. But the OTC index of 35 stocks includes such mighty companies as Anheuser-Busch, Ethyl Corp., Rockwell Manufacturing, Grolier, Eli Lilly and Dun & Bradstreet. They are a remarkably reliable mirror of the entire OTC market: the most recent study showed that the average price of 538 nationally listed OTC stocks gained at a pace that was virtually identical to the OTC index's gain...
...letter, the few bond houses that judge who will receive what ratings have become powerful and much-wooed forces in U.S. finance. Even before borrowers register their plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission, they call on one or all of the nation's three bond-rating services-Dun & Bradstreet, Moody's and Standard & Poor's. With briefcases stuffed full of balance sheets and revenue and repayment schedules, they are quizzed by committees of experts. Of the two largest services, Standard & Poor's makes 11,000 ratings a year, Moody...
...terse alphabetical shorthand. At Moody's, which pioneered the rating system back in 1909, the four top grades are Aaa, Aa, A and Baa, ranging from prime quality to faintly speculative. Standard & Poor's goes in for the upper case: AAA, AA, A and BBB. Dun & Bradstreet, which also owns Moody's but makes its own independent assessments, spells out its scale: prime, better good, good, medium good...
...revenue. Standard & Poor's stuck by its AAA rating, and so did the bond market, which snapped up the New York bonds without hesitation. Deep in debt from urban renewal, Baltimore last month took a one-grade demotion from Moody's, from Aa to A. Dun & Bradstreet, on the other hand, recently decided that Camden. N.J., deserved a promotion to "good...
Along with Dun & Bradstreet reports, file drawers in his secretary's office are stuffed with Wildenstein catalogues, Parke-Bernet auction lists, and color transparencies. On his desk sits a tiny Daumier bronze of a humble country bumpkin. He also wants his employees to appreciate art, gives them plenty to look at. Rarely have they failed to enjoy it, but once he had to take down a Leger tapestry of a mechanical man in the office foyer. Employees read themselves uncomfortably into the image...