Total debenture is the sum of all those debts, excluding financial bill to prevent double accounting. These manifold types of debenture can be computed in debt/GDP ratios. Those ratios aid to assess Debt Relief the speed of variations in the indebtness and the height of the debt due. For exemplar the USA have a huge consumer baggage and a low government debt, while in eastern European countries, for example, the opposite tends to be true.
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Specific bond debts owed by both governments and private corporations is rated by rating agencies, such as Moody's, Fitch Ratings Inc., A |
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| Best and Standard & Poor's |
| The direction or company itself will also be given its own distributed rating |
| Moody's uses the letters Aaa Aa A Baa Ba B Caa Ca C, where ratings Aa-Caa are qualified by numbers 1-3 |
| Munich Re, for example, currently is rated Aa3 (as of 2004) |
| S&P and other rating agencies have slightly changed systems using capital letters and +/- qualifiers. |
