(1) P uses to determine bond ratings.

(2) So we believe that the development of bond rating industry can influence the development of bond market, which has been proved be the history of foreign bond markets.

(3) Moody’s Investors Service cut its long-term bond rating on Portuguese debt four notches to Ba2 from Baa1, with a negative outlook, and lowered its short-term rating to non-prime.

(4) Toronto - based Dominion Bond Rating Service had to wait 13 years.

(5) Moody's is one of the largest bond rating agencies in the world.

(6) The average bond rating fell from A in 1981 to BBB- today, just one notch above junk status.

(7) For related reading, see Bond Rating Agencies: Can You Trust Them?

(8) European markets fell after Moody's Investors Service downgraded Ireland's government bond rating by five notches and said that the country had a weak economic outlook.

(9) The time has come to stop endangering the Triple A bond rating of the United States, put aside partisan politics, and behave responsibly to ensure a balanced approach to reducing our nation's deficit.

(10) 'I question whether private enterprise should be in this business [of rating sovereign debt], ' Jules Kroll, chairman and chief executive of Kroll Bond Rating Agency, told the House hearing.

(11) Equities faced pressure from a stronger U.S. dollar after Dubai's unresolved debt problems and Fitch Ratings' downgrade of Greece's bond rating dented risk appetite.

(12) “Cities keep careful track of their finances, but a bond rating doesn’t tell us how people feel or why they want to raise a family here or relocate a business here(/bond rating.html),” Mr. Curtatone said.

(13) Some rating agencies have lowered to the emerging markets bond rating.

(14) "On every front, Wells Fargo and other banks are facing more pressure," said Sean Egan, principal at bond rating agency Egan-Jones Ratings.

(15) Next, this thesis uses the public rating as explained variable and builds a bond rating model based on the sorted multiple Probit analysis, and modifies the quantitative rating qualitatively.