Sentence examples for rating upgrades from inspiring English sources

With $70 billion in reserves and lower interest payments on its debt after recent credit rating upgrades, the Philippines pledged $1 billion to the International Monetary Fund to help shore up the struggling economies of Europe.

But the county ended the last fiscal year with a $21.7 million surplus and was the only municipality in the country to receive two credit rating upgrades during the 2003 calendar year.

Rating upgrades and downgrades closely follow economic trends.

Shares of Peugeot rose 6.4%, following a series of rating upgrades.

The following table lists seven companies that received credit rating upgrades by either S&P, FitchRatings or Moody's Investor Service during the first three months of the year.

A review by Forbes of the Moody's database suggests that only four schools–University of North Carolina, Bryn Mawr College, Missouri State University and California State University Fresno have received rating upgrades this year.

Nassau County received another piece of fiscal good news early this month when the county had its bond rating upgraded by Fitch Ratings, the third of three major bond rating agencies to do so and thus essentially endorse the efforts of the County executive, Thomas R. Suozzi, to pull the county out of its financial morass.

Part of the proceeds are to be used to repay debt, and the ratings agency Standard & Poor's has put Formula One on watch for a credit rating upgrade.

A similar rating upgrade occurred with a second Siemens contract in 2007, the report said.

We recently got our first bond rating upgrade in 26 years.

The rating upgrade may also help attract more overseas investment, especially from pension funds and other professional investors.