Sentence examples for began downgrading from inspiring English sources

Then, on Friday, Moody's Investors Service began downgrading C.D.O.'s.

Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investors Service began downgrading the sewer debt last week.

Washington quickly recalled its ambassador "for consultations," and European governments began downgrading their relations with Austria.

Soon afterward, Mr. Bove began downgrading the banks he covered, eventually putting a sell on 60percentt of them, even as others dismissed his prediction that "this powder keg is going to blow".

After it lowered the rating of the U.S. government to AA+ from AAA on Friday, S&P began downgrading other investments that are directly tied to the sovereign rating.

A separate report, released in April by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said that when S&P and Moody's began downgrading mortgage-backed securities and collaterized debt obligations en masse in 2007, those reassessments served as "the immediate trigger for the financial crisis".

That prompted the United States to recall its ambassador "for consultations" and European governments to begin downgrading relations in protest.

President Thomas Klestil swore in a coalition government that includes members of the anti-immigration Freedom Party, prompting European governments to begin downgrading relations in protest.

With questions mounting, the major credit-rating agencies began to downgrade Enron's debt, putting additional pressure on the company.

In January 2008, about a year after the discovery of the coding error, Moody's began to downgrade the securities, but still did not reveal the error publicly.

Fitch began to downgrade it in December 2002, and in early 2003 took the unprecedented step of publishing details of the Corvus portfolio on its website.