Sentence examples for a major rating from inspiring English sources

Then, Standard & Poor's, a major rating agency, lowered the bank's credit outlook because of concerns about the toll of a worsening housing market.

"People have always been aware that that kind of a step has repercussions to it," said an analyst at a major rating agency.

Investor skepticism about a proposed merger between Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer turned to concrete fallout today as both companies' stocks continued to slide, and a major rating service downgraded Hewlett-Packard's creditworthiness.

In its first enforcement action against a major rating agency, the Securities and Exchange Commission accused S&P of fraudulent misconduct, saying the company loosened standards on its ratings to drum up business in recent years.

Investor skepticism about a proposed merger between Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer turned to fallout as shares of both companies continued to slide, and Moody's Investors Service, a major rating service, downgraded Hewlett-Packard's credit worthiness.

Nassau County's lack of a long-range plan to balance its budget caused a major rating service to warn today that it might downgrade county bonds to junk status.

After July 2013, the displacement exhibited a major rate change that is clearly visible in the time series (Figure 3F).

This review has confirmed a major rate of complications seen following open reduction and internal fixation of these difficult fractures, despite the use of ARIF technique.

The DUP assembly member made it clear he's not up for the introduction of water charges or a major rate increase.

Partial differential equations were derived to describe the mass transfer of each adsorbate based on pore diffusion in the adsorbent as a major rate controlling mechanism.

A major rate-limiting step in engineering microbes for optimum biosynthesis of a target compound is DNA assembly, as current methods can be cumbersome and costly.