The debt-rating agency Moody's downgraded Merrill Lynch's debt within minutes after the results were released.
In February, Moody's became the first rating agency to downgrade the UK from triple-A status.
Even so, Anadarko bond investors, fearing rating agency downgrades, have sold the paper in recent days.
The dangers inherent in the current conflicted rating agency business model are clearer than ever.
Brokerage statements never disclose when the rating agency last looked at and studied your specific bond issues.
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Forbes Global Publisher Domingo Cavallo, former economy minister of Argentina, recommends that the IMF become a rating agency.
On the surface, going after a credit rating agency for its role in the crisis is not surprising.
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These will turn into losses if the stockmarket falls another 20%, reckons Standard and Poor's, a credit-rating agency.
Policy makers have already tried improving the performance of the rating agencies with the Credit Rating Agency Reform Act of 2006.
The plan fails to respond to the true scale of the banks' problems, warns Moody's, a rating agency.
The rating agency has a BBB-minus rating with a negative outlook on India.
On May 3rd Sonera was downgraded two notches by Moody's, a rating agency.
So say the results of a survey done last week by online customer service rating agency Stella Service.
The Fitch credit rating agency Wednesday warned about a deteriorating EU debt crisis.
Often the manager can pick and choose the credits in the pool, within the rating agency's crude rating band.
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Clearly things have not been resolved yet, as one rating agency downgraded both Italian and Spanish debt on Friday afternoon.
The rating agency in August 2011 issued a historic downgrade of U.S. creditworthiness and threatened to lower it even further.
When a company or government wants to issue debt, it usually calls a rating agency (or three, to boost credibility).
The credit rating agency put these five and Ireland with negative outlooks, joining the ranks of Portugal and AAA-rated France.
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In an early sign of trouble, Moody's, a credit-rating agency, recently downgraded the debt of three power projects in Indonesia.
These measures have received positive recognition lately, as the country was recently upgraded to investment grade by rating agency Fitch.
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The rating agency added that the stable outlook is based on expectations that the company will show subscriber growth in 2012.
"You will see it happening in Hong Kong, " says Thomas Koetzsch, a Hong Kong-based analyst for bank rating agency Capital Intelligence.
The credit rating agency warned that the rebuilding cost estimates could change depending on how the situation at the plant unfolds.
The European Commission is looking at the idea of creating a home-grown rating agency as a counterweight to the American trio.
Fitch, a rating agency, says that despite this it will be a long time before European insurers are well capitalised again.
European markets were also rattled by news that credit rating agency Moody's has warned that recent developments could affect France's credit rating.
But the process of selling assets for cash has ground to a halt, says a credit analyst at a leading credit-rating agency.
Moody's, another rating agency, recently examined how 300 large companies would be affected, if they were shut out of the commercial-paper market.
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Sean Egan , of rating agency Egan-Jones, rates Ford's credit as junk.
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