Title is inaccurate. They're BBB- now, not BBB.

wyrdcurt 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

True. The linked article's title says that. I wonder if that was a typo by the OP or one of those HN quirks where the title was automatically changed when it shouldn't have been.

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abirch 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think there's an errant space in between the BBB and the - but yes, the title is wrong with that space

	▲	dmurvihill an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I bet the author submitted "to BBB-, one above junk" and an ignorant editor turned the minus into an em dash

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fuzzfactor 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I would say that the more a company still has plenty of old-fashioned intangible positive corporate goodwill, the bigger the notch.

Wouldn't want to be negative at a time like this.