How to Use credit rating in a Sentence

credit rating

noun
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  • The company is at risk of losing its investment grade credit rating for the first time in its history.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 24 June 2024
  • Israel’s war has shrunk its GDP and hurt its credit rating, creating obstacles for Israeli firms looking to raise funds.
    — Simone Lipkind, TIME, 19 June 2024
  • Moody’s, a credit rating agency, knocked Maryland’s credit outlook from stable to negative in May, a flashing yellow light that action is needed.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2024
  • In 2011, a prolonged fight over the debt limit led to a downgrade in the nation’s credit rating.
    — Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
  • This is not the first time the United States has experienced a change in credit rating.
    — Vivi Smilgius, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
  • In his early 40s, Mr. Jimenez has been looking for two years and has worked hard to improve his credit rating.
    — Leonardo Bevilacqua, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The selloff in stocks and bonds came after Fitch's downgrade of the U.S. credit rating earlier this week.
    — David Uberti, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2023
  • One agency has warned the US credit rating is at risk of a downgrade, even as the deadline approaches.
    — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
  • Currently California’s credit rating falls in the middle of the pack among the 50 states.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
  • The role of the credit rating firms is to assess the likelihood of those eventualities.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • First Republic's stock is tumbling, and so is its credit rating.
    — Charley Grant, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2023
  • In a weird stroke of irony, the U.S. government’s credit rating was downgraded the same day that Donald Trump was indicted for a historic third time.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
  • That marks the seventh straight quarter of sales declines for the company, S&P said in its recent credit rating report.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 13 June 2023
  • That’s despite what’s been shaping up to be a banner year for the US stock market — at least prior to this week’s US credit rating downgrade (more on that below).
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But by Friday, Aug. 5, when S&P downgraded the country’s credit rating, the index had dropped by over 10 percent.
    — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 9 May 2023
  • Oh, and the US is yet again on the precipice of another government shutdown, an event that could result in a downgrade to its credit rating and lead to volatility in US stocks.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The credit bureaus did nothing to restore my credit rating.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
  • Fitch Ratings this week moved Boeing’s credit rating closer to junk bond status.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2024
  • But most candidates say the country is moving in the wrong direction, pointing to a downgrade of Panama’s credit rating in March.
    — Leila Miller, New York Times, 5 May 2024
  • Borrowing too much would hurt the state’s credit rating, increasing costs for future bonds.
    — Julia Shumway, oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Failure to do so, or even a standoff that increases the risk of the U.S. defaulting on its debt, could lower the nation’s credit rating and push up interest rates.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In May, the company reported a first quarter loss of $54.6 million and Moody’s downgraded its credit rating out of concern about its dispute with the union.
    — Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 27 June 2023
  • Moody’s, along with Fitch Ratings and S&P, has said that such reforms threaten the country’s relatively high credit rating.
    — Max Raskin, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Adding to the gloom: after Chinese markets closed, Moody’s Investors Service cut its outlook on the country’s credit rating to negative.
    — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
  • One tool might say that the loan was rejected because the person’s credit rating was too low while another might emphasize the person’s income.
    — Will Henshall, Time, 23 June 2023
  • Subprime lenders loan to you even if your credit score is below 580, which is a low rating, per the credit rating company Experian.
    — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The firm, which has not previously examined Alaska, gave the state an AA credit rating in late July, the second-highest of 10 steps on the company’s rating scale.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The plan to make residents whole will be costly, something noted by Fitch Ratings, which placed a negative credit rating watch on Lifespace because of it.
    — Natalie Walters, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Standard & Poor’s downgraded the nation’s credit rating 12 years ago.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Fitch is one of three major credit rating agencies, along with S&P Moody’s, that evaluate a company or country’s ability to pay its debts.
    — Brian Cheung, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2023

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