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Twitter is issuing bonds rated below "investment grade." Here's what that means.

by Justin Ho

Dec 4, 2019

"Junk" bonds don't mean the company got an F in a test.

Twitter is offering below investment grade bonds to raise some cash. Above, a Twitter banner hangs on the New York Stock Exchange during the company's IPO in 2013.

Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images

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