Sentence examples for risk of downgrading from inspiring English sources

Southwest's announcement came a day after Standard & Poor's put US Airways' debt on its CreditWatch list, meaning that the debt was at risk of downgrading.

However, the Pentagon may now want more, running the risk of downgrading the United States European Command (EUCOM) into little more than a hollowed out headquarters.

But it ran the risk of downgrading the Gold Flake franchise.

I think that the risk of default is pretty low at Greece and it appears that even the risk of downgrading to our type of territory, not that we would be buyers of the sovereign debt at that point, but to speculative grade rating also seems to be fairly small.

As mentioned before, a screening method yielding many false positives is highly unwanted because of the severe social consequences and the risk of downgrading the confidence in the screening method.

S&P has 700 entities on its at-risk-of-downgrade list, "the highest recorded so far," it says, and almost 40% of them are currently investment-grade.

Banks, brokers and other financials have been on the slide since the credit market meltdown began last summer, and they now make up 27% of S&P's at-risk-of-downgrade group.

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

Australia's AAA-rated debt also remains a big draw for sovereign funds and long-term investors wary of the risk of downgrades elsewhere.

Alan Clarke, economist at BNP Paribas, said that a downgrading of the UK's credit rating was likely as a result of no party winning an overally majority: Ahead of the election we saw the risk of downgrade at close to 50% - far higher than the Reuters consensus of 10%.

Again, this risk of downgrade was part of the institutional knowledge that Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch brought to their ratings decisions on Anderson.