It s natural that the state of global markets will have some kind of ripple effect, says Greg Kabance, managing director for Latin American structured finance at Fitch Ratings, the international credit ratings agency.

Poor 2012 corporate financial results will further undermine credit ratings.

One of my favorite (sad) stories concerns consumer credit ratings in Russia.

The credit ratings agencies have been held accountable in two private suits.

Investors use credit ratings as a factor in pricing loans on bonds.

Ten eurozone countries had just been downgraded by the ratings agency Standard Poor s.

Some operate with good credit ratings without capital from industrial countries, and most support regional integration processes.

A description of how credit ratings for a United Nations bond would be established is set out below.

Moreover, several African countries have received ratings from credit agencies, which has opened up global financial centers to them.

The ratings agency Moody s is preparing warnings about the extent and quality of Indian private sector debt.

The obligations of certain organizations, such as the World Bank, are defined as quasi sovereign by the credit ratings agencies.

Imported ratings

Higher Ratings

The sell off in international credit markets in March April 2005 led to the postponement or cancellation of some new bond issues but borrowers with high credit ratings had little trouble accessing financing.

Because this person is the most secure, the ratings agency, which I'll probably do another whole series of videos on,

The eurozone s immediate challenge is declining fiscal stability in a subset of countries whose credit ratings are falling and debt service costs rising.

If governments that retain strong credit ratings are to spend scarce resources effectively, the most effective approach is to catalyze debt workouts and reductions.

Internal audit ratings

Ratings of 40 .

CDS rates for these countries rose, their credit ratings were lowered and the yield spreads on their government bonds versus Germany widened to an alarming extent.

Quality survey ratings, 2004

It maintained its ratings.

Likewise, the ECB should have barred banks from the risky CDS market, where they are held hostage to ratings agencies decisions about what constitutes a credit event.

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Table 1 Internal audit ratings

How high were the ratings?

My ratings went up, right?

The ratings won't be good.

NEW YORK Until six days before Lehman Brothers collapsed five years ago, the ratings agency Standard Poor s maintained the firm s investment grade rating of A.

The just collapsed credit bubble, fueled by so called special investment vehicles, derivatives, collateralized debt obligations, and phony triple A ratings, was built on the illusions of mathematical modeling.

What is the modern equivalent of branding with a scarlet A, which was the penalty for adultery in colonial New England? Maybe the credit ratings agencies have the answer.

This improvement in credit ratings and the inclusion of emerging market bonds in global bond indices has led to a broadening of the investor base to include institutional investors.

Set all ratings to this value

Impact element 2 quality survey ratings

Why is the ratings so high?

Has your ratings ever hit 30 ?

Obama's ratings can go up again.

Your cartoon ratings are really high.

Hey, you're ratings were really high!

Do not believe me? Ratings plateplate

Ratings that pretend to take into account systemic risk might prove as dangerous as ratings that ignore such risk.

How's the ratings for the daily dramas?

Oh my. What about the national ratings?

Here are the latest ratings, Mr. Rhodes.

Implementation of that approach would essentially result in the utilization of the high credit ratings of some Member States to enhance the overall credit rating of a United Nations bond issue, which would benefit all Member States since it would lower the overall cost of borrowing.