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.
美國調(diào)高債務上限後，中國唯一一家評級機搆——大公國際周三宣佈，將美國主權信用評級從A+下調(diào)至A，評級展望爲負麪。
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)建歐洲信用評級機搆，和那些爲投資者評定公司和國家信用等級的大型私人評級機搆競爭。
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’.
一家國際信用評級機搆將對美國政府財政的長期前景評估從“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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