As technology allows information regarding the financial health of corporations to become easier to obtain, we should expect:

A. the risk spread to decrease.
B. the role of bond rating agencies to become more important.
C. the risk spread to increase.
D. a decrease in the number of participants in the bond market.


Answer: A

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