By exploiting its AAA rating, GE capital was able to raise capital cheaply and then deploy it to fund everything from commercial-property and home loans to credit-card lending and insurance.

凭借着AAA的高信用等级，GE金融可以低价吸入资本，然后再将其投入到各个金融领域，从商业资产、家庭贷款到信用卡借贷、保险。

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Even when capital is available, taking on debt can jeopardise a firm's credit rating.

即使可以获得资本，承担债务会损害一个公司的信用评级。

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The business model at GE Capital was built on the foundation of an AAA credit rating that gave the division access to huge amounts of cheap money through the commercial paper market.

GE金融的业务模式是建立在它的AAA信用评级基础上的，这可以让其通过商业票据市场低成本的获得巨额资本。

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On March 11, Mark Alpert of Deutsch Bank raised his rating on Capital One to "buy" as well.

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"You will see it happening in Hong Kong, " says Thomas Koetzsch, a Hong Kong-based analyst for bank rating agency Capital Intelligence.

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Howard Mason, an analyst with Sanford Bernstein, who has an "outperform" rating on Capital One, says there is still opportunity for Capital One to gain market share.

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