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.
美国调高债务上限后，中国唯一一家评级机构——大公国际周三宣布，将美国主权信用评级从A+下调至A，评级展望为负面。
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。
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’.
一家国际信用评级机构将对美国政府财政的长期前景评估从“稳定”降低到“消极”。

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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