The United Nations goal with respect to the credit rating would be to convince the credit rating agencies to treat the borrowing as quasi sovereign for credit rating purposes.

The credit rating agencies would probably evaluate the United Nations for credit rating purposes based on various criteria, including

Our country's credit rating was affirmed.

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Thus, Eurobonds would not ruin Germany s credit rating.

It may also help improve the country's sovereign credit rating.

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This would, among other things, reduce the role of credit rating agencies.

Given this, it is no surprise that Moody s downgraded France s credit rating last year.

Any United Nations bond issue would be evaluated by market participants and potential investors by its credit rating, which is a formal evaluation of the creditworthiness of the bond issue by an independent credit rating agency.

In establishing a credit rating on a United Nations bond issue, the credit rating agencies would focus on the source and probability of timely debt service payments, in accordance with the terms applicable to the bond issue.

This risk was highlighted by the recent downgrade of Italy s credit rating by Standard Poor s.

True, India s government must now consider growing threats to the country s investment grade credit rating.

This reinforces the need for the development of e credit information and related e credit rating and scoring techniques in the developing and transition economies.

Moody's For Moody's, a bond is considered investment grade if its credit rating is Baa3 or higher.

This broad set of spiraling difficulties has led credit rating agencies to slash Egypt s rating. It is also discouraging foreign direct investment, as is the discrediting of Egypt s police forces.

An investment grade rating reflects the credit rating agencies' belief that the probability of payment of the bond is high and the financial risk associated with the investment is low.

Germany s credit rating would not be endangered, because Eurobonds would compare favorably with bonds issued by other major countries.

Moreover, credit rating agencies had serious conflicts of interest, because they received fees from the managers of these instruments.

The second shaky principle is that, in order to validate these instruments, issuers of CDOs relied on credit rating agencies.

If Europe wants to devise its own rules for credit rating agencies and hedge funds, it should simply go ahead.

Bond investors heavy reliance on credit rating agencies, which tend to be laxer with powerful issuers, has not been fixed.

Credit rating agencies, which play an important role in modern capital markets, completely failed in the years preceding the financial crisis.

Russia s worsening credit rating and the tougher borrowing terms in the international market are forcing Russia to compete harder for capital.

Inadequate production credit, lack of access to extension services.

DAKAR France is wrestling with a burden of debts and public deficits that led Standard Poor s recently to downgrade its credit rating.

So ill, in fact, that Standard Poor s recently cut its sovereign credit rating the country s second downgrade in less than two years.

PARIS Moody s announcement in November that it had downgraded France s sovereign credit rating by one notch from its AAA rating prompted one blogger to poke fun at rating agencies tendency either to get things completely wrong or to recognize suddenly a crisis that had long been staring them in the face.

It means expanding access to credit and financial services everywhere.

Investment banks and credit rating agencies believed in financial alchemy the notion that significant value could be created by slicing and dicing securities.

Indeed, this is one of the factors that contributed to Moody s decision following Standard Poor s to strip France of its AAA credit rating.

Credit rating agencies, institutional investors, and asset managers are encouraged to see how such factors can be incorporated into their own risk models.

Brazil s financial good behavior was rewarded as recently as April of this year when Standard Poor s raised its credit rating to investment grade.

Rating agencies would consider this debt exchange a credit event, but only for a very short period a matter of a few weeks.

That would provide the United Nations with the benefit of a higher credit rating, which would result in a lower cost for borrowing.

(c) The allocation of bonds and other non equity investments, including determination of the nature, term and credit rating of appropriate bonds portfolios.

Only Germany can end it, because, as the country with the highest credit rating and largest and strongest economy by far, it is in charge.

CAMBRIDGE In the new financial order being put in place by regulators around the world, reform of credit rating agencies should be a key element.

Furthermore, emerging international banking capital adequacy regulations (Basel II), make the credit risks rating of potential borrowers a condition for their access to bank loans.

They could not stop the Greek government from borrowing (indirectly) from the European Central Bank (ECB) as long as credit rating agencies deemed Greek debt creditworthy.

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For this reason, politicians and powerful businessmen often cajole the press, the credit rating agencies, and even the analysts to portray their actions in a positive light.

Moreover, since early September, the potential benefits of cooperation now include avoiding an embarrassing credit rating downgrade next year if medium term fiscal reform does not materialize.