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The rating agency this week raised its estimate of Spanish banking sector losses by some 70%.
本周该评级机构将其对西班牙银行业的损失估计上调了70%左右。
She also called for the creation of a European credit rating agency to rival large, private companies that rate the credit of companies and countries for investors.
她还呼吁创建欧洲信用评级机构，和那些为投资者评定公司和国家信用等级的大型私人评级机构竞争。
But the authors write that a terminal rating agency downgrade "should be a manageable problem" since it would come in the context of greater clarity of Greece's future.
但是这两位作者写道，终端评级机构的降级评级“应该是个可控的问题”，因为希腊要迈向未来，这一点已在预料之中。

"It doesn't mean we don't have problem. The fact is,we didn't need a rating agency to tell us that we need a balanced, long-term approach to deficit reduction.
The first rating agency in the world was created by Mr. John Moody, in the U.S. In 1909.
世界上第一家信用评级机构,是约翰·穆迪先生,于1909年在美国创办的
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You say, oh oh, this is bad news, if this is the only--if only one rating agency does that, okay, but--and it's only AMBAC that's been down-rated, but you starting wondering.
你会说,这是个坏消息,如果只是一家评级机构下降了评级,而且只有安巴克一家被降级,那还好,不过你开始担忧了
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The debt-rating agency Moody's downgraded Merrill Lynch's debt within minutes after the results were released.
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an organization that gives ratings (= scores) to people, companies, or countries according to how safe it is to lend money to them

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After evaluating China’s insurance business, Standard & Pool, the international credit rating agency, got the conclusion that Chinese life insurance industry and non-life insurance industry are in "double high" state.
2005年国际信用评级机构标准普尔公司对我国保险业进行了评价与分析,得出的结论是目前中国保险业处于寿险业与非寿险业的行业风险皆高的“双高”状态。
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