He commented that Suddenly a show that was a hit is fighting for its survival, ... We're not fighting 'Cosby,' we just want to get healthy ratings.

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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.

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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.

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.

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

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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

His ratings have dipped below 50 for the first time.

Poor 2012 corporate financial results will further undermine credit ratings.

Africa will not only be hit hardest, but it will be hit first.

Layla hit Sami.

Layla hit Sami.

You've hit me.

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

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

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

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

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.

Some people were hit.

Earthquakes frequently hit Japan.

Did Sami hit Layla?

Sami hit his wife.

I hit the wall.

Sami never hit Layla.

Sami never hit Layla.

Whether or not the housing correction will hit overall growth depends on how one defines hit.

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.

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 .

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

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