Sentence examples for rating decisions from inspiring English sources
Fabrizio Goria (@FGoria) DBRS confirmed its rating on Austria at AAA with a Stable Trend June 13 , 20146.09pm BST It's a busy evening for rating decisions, with S&P cutting South Africa and Bulgaria's ratings by one notch, to BBB+ and BBB- respectively.
Redmond said considerations of the carbon bubble did not currently have a major influence on rating decisions, mostly because the impacts fell outside the five-year time frame ratings agencies use to assess companies' futures.
In the final analysis, consumers benefit when insurance underwriting and rating decisions are based on a wide variety of fair and objective factors".
"At a time when the global economy is fragile and market sentiment is sensitive, unbalanced and unjustified rating decisions such as Moody's today can initiate damaging self-fulfilling prophecies and certainly strengthen the arguments for tighter regulation of the rating agencies themselves," the Greek finance ministry added.
"Rating agencies are facing pressures and will need to get better fast at being thorough and transparent about not just integrating factors related to climate change and other [environmental, social and governance] issues but also explaining to market participants how consideration of those factors influences their rating decisions," Suki said.
Evaluators also used the user feedback to guide their rating decisions under the RETAIN framework.
"I think economically, the credit rating decision itself makes no difference at all.
The rating decision follows similar action by Standard and Poor's, which cut WA's credit rating from AAA+ in September last year to AA+.
The Treasury said the US credit rating decision was a "complete vindication" for the government's robust approach to cutting the deficit.
Defending itself against attack by the Treasury, S&P later issued a statement flatly rebuting the criticism, saying it "had no impact on the rating decision".
In a statement, Weinstein called the rating decision "a bridge too far".
