This is why rating agencies opinions are so valuable.

The rating agencies have long placed Greek debt deep in junk territory, and are now giving Portuguese and Irish debt the same status.

The rating agencies miscalculated the value of asset backed securities.

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

Indeed, the rating agencies, whose malfunctions contributed to the crisis, must be regulated.

After all, the global financial crisis badly damaged the credibility of ratings agencies as a whole.

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

The major ratings agencies are increasingly complaining about the country s lack of a growth strategy and its outsize budget deficits.

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

Acknowledging that rating agencies were incompetent without doing anything to regulate them was inexcusable.

Since the crisis, rating agencies have been under attack, and major regulation, which could severely affect their business, has been discussed on both sides of the Atlantic. Given this, how free are credit rating agencies to express their opinion on the very institutions that will regulate them?

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

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

Since each issuer represented a small fraction of their revenues, rating agencies were unwilling to compromise their reputation for the sake of any single issuer.

Clearly, environmental risks are potentially large enough to affect countries economies in ways that could influence their willingness or ability to repay sovereign debt. In addition, these risks vary widely across countries, including countries whose current credit ratings suggest similar levels of sovereign risk.

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Indeed, one positive achievement by European leaders at the recent Brussels summit was to begin the process of reining in both the ECB and the power of the American ratings agencies.

All of a sudden, issuers had much more influence on the rating agencies, which, like any good seller, were ready to bend a little not to alienate important customers.

But even AAA rated CDOs, which the US ratings agencies had called equivalent in safety to government bonds, are now only worth one third of their nominal value.

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3 For example, the European Classification (NACE), the North American Classification (NAICS) and the Australia New Zealand Classification (ANZSIC).

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.

And many observers within and outside the financial sector have begun to question the models upon which credit rating agencies, investment firms, and others rely to price the risks tied to such securities.

Lehman Brothers had been awarded a high rating on the very eve of its collapse, yet now the rating agencies criticize governments that pulled the global economy back from the abyss for violating accounting principles.

Could it be corruption? Some academic economists consult for banks or rating agencies, give speeches to investor conferences, serve as expert witnesses, and carry out sponsored research.

But, even when they are not in danger of losing access to the bond market, most governments in the developed world nowadays anxiously await the pronouncements of the same rating agencies that they were recently vilifying.

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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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This will be achieved through the discussion of classification principles and their interpretation and application in both classifications, recognizing that the CPC describes the outputs of the economic activities described in the ISIC.

Indeed, the most curious aspect of the ECB s position was its threat not to accept restructured government bonds as collateral if the ratings agencies decided that the restructuring should be classified as a credit event.

Depending on your assessment of Tea Party strength on Capitol Hill, at least a partial debt default does not seem as implausible as it did in the past and recent warnings from ratings agencies reflect this heightened risk.

A low point perhaps one should say the height of ridiculousness was reached last year when rating agencies intensified their surveillance of government debt, and markets that had been victimized by the agencies incompetence and bad faith became fixated on their evaluations.

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It has largely replaced the older Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system however, certain government departments and agencies, such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), still use the SIC codes.

The premia paid by Portugal have actually soared since major ratings agencies, explicitly citing the agreement reached at the EU summit in late March, lowered the country s sovereign debt rating.

ICD 10 The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is an international standard diagnostic classification for a wide variety of health conditions.

Since the CPC has been revised at shorter intervals than the ISIC, it was expected that the revision of the CPC would be much less extensive than the revision of the ISIC.

The seeding was announced on 13 June 2011.

The first step resulted in the preparation of the Central Product Classification, Version 1.1, which was submitted and approved by the Statistical Commission in 2002.

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Are rating agencies and the markets really so ill informed about public spending? According to the International Monetary Fund, G 20 countries earmarked 17.6 of their GDP on average to supporting their banking systems, although they spent much less.