Imported ratings

Internal audit ratings

His ratings have dipped below 50 for the first time.

Even if ratings were no longer required or encouraged by law, however, demand for ratings and the need to improve their reliability would remain.

For details on these ratings and the specific associated OpenVMS versions and ratings, see the NCSC and Common Criteria pages, and the associated product listings.

It was on top of their ratings for over three years.

The approval ratings for Russia s president and prime minister are heading south.

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Table 1 Internal audit ratings

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

Regulators, bankers, and ratings agencies bear much of the blame for the crisis.

The ratings for the 2009 show were the best since the 2004 VMAs.

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Ratings agencies had incentives to give good ratings to the high risk securities produced by the investment banks that were paying them.

Palin s approval ratings among women fell as they learned more about what she stands for.

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.

Political pundits agree that presidential approval ratings are highly correlated with gas prices when prices go up, a president s poll ratings go down.

Another is that US ratings agencies helped fool the world by giving triple A ratings to their American clients, while aggressively downgrading foreign borrowers.

Oil prices are soaring, as are Putin s approval ratings.

Indeed, it is clear that ratings were ridiculously distorted.

President Dmitri Medvedev s approval ratings are only slightly lower.

Sovereign debts, junk ratings protests take to the street

Indeed, I believe that it is here that the seminal reason for their plunging poll ratings lies.

Poor 2012 corporate financial results will further undermine credit ratings.

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

The media are no remedy, as competition for ratings forces them to favor oversimplification over differentiation, complexity, and nuance.

Basel II also recommends a new, more differentiated and stricter regulatory capital criterion for various types of such ratings.

But to make ratings work, the raters need to be rated.

Table 1 shows the ratings used by their respective audit services.

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

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

How could reputable ratings agencies and investment banks misjudge things so badly?

Bond rating agencies have issued misleading ratings on companies in questionable health.

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

Such measures should focus on what makes ratings valuable for the investors who use them their accuracy in forecasting financial health.

And their presidents, despite their undeniable competence, are watching their approval ratings plummet.

Since his victory in 2004, Yushchenko s popularity ratings have plummeted to around 8 .

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

We might also be looking at a potential ratings downgrade for US government debt implying the prospect of even higher interest rates.

Today, 16 African countries and growing have sovereign country ratings. What does this mean?

And now the country has absorbed another huge blow another downgrade of its bond ratings.

All ratings of financial products raise the same incentive problems and could benefit from reform.

Finally, the investors who bought MBS s and CDO s were greedy and believed the misleading ratings.

And now the country has absorbed another huge blow another downgrade of its bond ratings.

Two issues within UNHCR relate to that recommendation the Oversight Committee and internal audit ratings.