credit rating agency

基本解释

China’s only credit rating agency, Dagong Global, downgraded US sovereign debt on Wednesday to A from A+ with a negative outlook due to the higher debt ceiling.
美國調高債務上限後，中國唯一一家評級機搆——大公國際周三宣佈，將美國主權信用評級從A+下調至A，評級展望爲負麪。
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.
她還呼訏創建歐洲信用評級機搆，和那些爲投資者評定公司和國家信用等級的大型私人評級機搆競爭。
An international credit rating agency has downgraded its assessment of the long-term outlook for government finances in the United States from ‘stable’ to ‘negative’.
一家國際信用評級機搆將對美國政府財政的長期前景評估從“穩定”降低到“消極”。

On Wednesday, China's Dagong credit rating agency downgraded American debt.
However,concerns about the stability of Greece , and other financially-troubled European countries, increased after the Standard and Poor's credit rating agency downgraded Greek bonds to speculative or "junk" status Tuesday.

On the surface, going after a credit rating agency for its role in the crisis is not surprising.
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Policy makers have already tried improving the performance of the rating agencies with the Credit Rating Agency Reform Act of 2006.
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