Sentence examples for downgrading as from inspiring English sources

For Australia, Chiswick, Lee, and Miller (2005) and Mahuteau and Junankar (2008) found such a pattern of downgrading, as did Akresh (2006; 2008) for the US.

The company's plans were announced the same week that Fitch Ratings placed the company's AAA insurance ranking under review for a downgrading as losses increased on the type of subprime mortgage debt that MBIA guarantees.

Not least are those of returned President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who will be hoping his and his government's pariah status in the West receives a downgrading as a result of playing the democratic game as instructed.

For school attendance, there is downgrading as stated in the table so that the GRADE assessment of the quality is very low, for risk of bias, imprecision, and indirectness.

B. Nielsen Yes, you can upgrade and downgrade as often as you like.

That would erode their capital, leaving them at risk of downgrades as well.

Spiro believes that French debt looks "more and more overvalued relative to fundamentals", and believes Moody's downgrade is belated, as: This is a "Chirac/Sarkozy downgrade" as much as a "Hollande" one.

News organizations like Bloomberg, CNBC, Dow Jones and The New York Times routinely report on stock upgrades and downgrades as soon as they get their hands on the reports.

Since profits should rise in line with GDP over the long run, then forecasts for profits growth must be downgraded as well.

Four times as many companies have had their credit ratings downgraded as have had them improved, the worst such ratio since 1990, according to Moody's Investor Services.

It blamed the downgrades, as well as travelers' decisions to forgo trips altogether, for its loss of $136 million during the first three months of 2009.