creditworthy
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So these expectations have helped push down the prices, and push up the yields, of even the biggest and most creditworthy companies’ bonds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
And for all of its challenges, the U.S. government is still the most creditworthy borrower around—making its own borrowing costs a benchmark for what everybody else has to pay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Saylor was keen to point out “systemically important banks like Morgan Stanley and Citi, all with intent to integrate bitcoin into their operations,” which he interprets as an “embrace of bitcoin as a creditworthy instrument.”
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
“And so, certainly they’re maybe not as strong as some big cap technology companies like Microsoft, Google or Meta, but they’re all really strong, creditworthy tenants.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
That is, the lenders were making loans to people who were less creditworthy than 71 percent of the population.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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