The measure was designed to encourage conservation, but it will also make the energy bonds harder to evaluate, says David Hitchcock, an analyst with rating agency Standard & AMP; Poor's.
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S & amp; P has rated the state's general obligation bonds A +, which is very low for a state general obligation bond but a full category above the energy bond.
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AMP + PP i, to effectively supply the energy of hydrolysis of two high-energy bonds, with the hydrolysis of PP i being allowed to go to completion in a separate reaction.
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Other new sales today totalled about $ 480 million, including $ 127 million of Missouri State Environmental Improvement and Energy bonds and $ 89 million of District of Columbia Hospital bonds.
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In the context of biochemical reactions, these anhydride bonds are frequently and sometimes controversially referred to as " high-energy bonds " ( despite the fact it takes energy to break bonds ).
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Later, Kalckar and Lipmann both independently developed concepts of a " high energy bond " ( which Lipmann famously expressed as " ~ P " ) and ATP as a universal " energy carrier ."
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For California investors, the state's $ 11.9 billion energy bond issue will be like a circus elephant walking through the front door : too big to ignore, kind of scary but maybe worth a ride.
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"If you look at current spreads among the energy high-yield credits, it's fair to say we've already seen a lot of the tightening, " said Erik Dybesland, an energy bond analyst at Bear Stearns & Co.
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Angelides says the delay poses another potential problem : Power producers who have long-term contracts with the state can get out of their contracts if the state doesn't have its energy bonds sold by July 1.
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For California investors, the state's $ 11 . 9 billion energy bond issue will be like a circus elephant walking through the front door : too big to ignore, kind of scary but maybe worth a ride.
