[pgn674]

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

[wyrdcurt]

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.

[fuzzfactor]

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.

[abirch]

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

[dmurvihill]

I bet the author submitted "to BBB-, one above junk" and an ignorant editor turned the minus into an em dash