credit rating agency

基本解釋

China’s only credit rating agency, Dagong Global, downgraded US sovereign debt on Wednesday to A from A+ with a negative outlook due to the higher debt ceiling.
美國(guó)調(diào)高債務(wù)上限後，中國(guó)唯一一家評(píng)級(jí)機(jī)搆——大公國(guó)際周三宣佈，將美國(guó)主權(quán)信用評(píng)級(jí)從A+下調(diào)至A，評(píng)級(jí)展望爲(wèi)負(fù)麪。
She also called for the creation of a European credit rating agency to rival large, private companies that rate the credit of companies and countries for investors.
她還呼訏創(chuàng)建歐洲信用評(píng)級(jí)機(jī)搆，和那些爲(wèi)投資者評(píng)定公司和國(guó)家信用等級(jí)的大型私人評(píng)級(jí)機(jī)搆競(jìng)爭(zhēng)。
An international credit rating agency has downgraded its assessment of the long-term outlook for government finances in the United States from ‘stable’ to ‘negative’.
一家國(guó)際信用評(píng)級(jí)機(jī)搆將對(duì)美國(guó)政府財(cái)政的長(zhǎng)期前景評(píng)估從“穩(wěn)定”降低到“消極”。

On Wednesday, China's Dagong credit rating agency downgraded American debt.
However,concerns about the stability of Greece , and other financially-troubled European countries, increased after the Standard and Poor's credit rating agency downgraded Greek bonds to speculative or "junk" status Tuesday.

On the surface, going after a credit rating agency for its role in the crisis is not surprising.
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Policy makers have already tried improving the performance of the rating agencies with the Credit Rating Agency Reform Act of 2006.
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