The Pension Rights Center maintains a list of employers that have downgraded their matches (one of the fact sheets under "Pension Publications" at www.pensionrights.org).org
Instead of dealing with these substantive matters, however, European leaders have sharply attacked the markets and the ratings agencies that have downgraded Greek, Portuguese and Spanish bonds, calling them improperly regulated, unjust and greedy.
He says the recent convulsions are more the result of trigger-happy ratings agencies that have downgraded the sovereign debt of Greece and others in atonement for having failed to foresee the subprime mortgage crisis.
The problems that have led it to request assistance from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund are not, he says, of its own making; rather, they are a result of unfair and arbitrary pressure from bond traders, speculators and credit rating agencies that have downgraded the country's debt and driven it into the arms of the E.U. and I.M.F.
A devout Muslim, Khan recorded in an interview that, at a conference on music, a Hindu musician remarked flippantly: "The problem with Islam is that it has downgraded music".
January 16, 2013 Updated at 1.29pm GMT 12.31pm GMT Malta downgraded Another eurozone credit rating downgrade - Standard & Poor's has just announced that it has downgraded Malta's rating by one notch to BBB+, from A-, with a stable outlook.
Late last night the credit rating agency announced that it has downgraded France by one notch to AA1, with a negative outlook.
In fact, it wants it so bad that it has downgraded M$ (get it, lol!) stock from "buy" to "neutral" in an attempt to encourage the move.
Fitch further says that it has downgraded the company's long-term issuer default rating, with the outlook on the long-term IDR now at "Negative" and that it may consider downgrading even further.
Anthony Tommassini writes that the Harvard Coop has downgraded its classical music section.
