{"id":3910,"date":"2020-11-27T20:09:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T20:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefinanceghost.com\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2020-11-27T20:09:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T20:09:54","slug":"magic-markets-ep3-touch-my-junk-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefinanceghost.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/27\/magic-markets-ep3-touch-my-junk-bonds\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Markets Ep3: Touch my junk (bonds)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"trx_addons_dropcap trx_addons_dropcap_style_2\">I<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">n the third episode of Magic Markets, we ask you to touch our junk. Well, our junk bonds. To be more precise, we unpack the role of ratings agencies and why investors use them to rate government and corporate bonds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Join The Finance Ghost and Mohammed Nalla of <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/moe-knows.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moe-Knows.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> as we answer these questions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"trx_addons_list_info_circled\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What do ratings agencies do?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Why do investors rely on them?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What is a downgrade?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What is junk status?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Are there still investors for junk bonds?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What can South Africa do to elevate ourselves out of junk status?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This episode is sponsored by<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/graycapital.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Gray Capital<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, an independent wealth management company. Gray Capital combines the art of financial planning with the science of investing, helping you achieve your financial goals. Gray Capital is an authorised financial services provider.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/iframe%20class=castos-iframe-player%20src=https:\/\/5fafa90ff057b8-94924483.castos.com\/player\/287866%20frameborder=0%20scrolling=no%20width=100%%20height=150\/iframe\">http:\/\/<iframe class=\"castos-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/5fafa90ff057b8-94924483.castos.com\/player\/287866\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[the_ad id=&#8221;3235&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[the_ad id=&#8221;3234&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the third episode of Magic Markets, we ask you to touch our junk. Well, our junk bonds. To be more precise, we unpack the role of ratings agencies and why investors use them to rate government and corporate bonds. Join The Finance Ghost and Mohammed Nalla of Moe-Knows.com as we answer these questions: What do ratings agencies do? Why &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,315,26],"tags":[626,62,625,620,623,209,618,617,621],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinanceghost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinanceghost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinanceghost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinanceghost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinanceghost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefinanceghost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinanceghost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinanceghost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinanceghost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinanceghost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}