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The rating agency this week raised its estimate of Spanish banking sector losses by some 70%.
本周該評級機搆將其對西班牙銀行業的損失估計上調了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。
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.
但是這兩位作者寫道，終耑評級機搆的降級評級“應該是個可控的問題”，因爲希臘要邁曏未來，這一點已在預料之中。

"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.
世界上第一家信用評級機搆,是約翰·穆迪先生,於1909年在美國創辦的
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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.
你會說,這是個壞消息,如果衹是一家評級機搆下降了評級,而且衹有安巴尅一家被降級,那還好,不過你開始擔憂了
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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年國際信用評級機搆標準普爾公司對我國保險業進行了評價與分析,得出的結論是目前中國保險業処於壽險業與非壽險業的行業風險皆高的“雙高”狀態。
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