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In a recent poll of 37 economists conducted by the Wall Street Journal, Bernanke received a 7.6 (out of 10) rating for his ability to lead the Fed, beating out all but one of the other likely candidates for the Fed chairmanship.
Although Norinchukin is not legally obliged to rescue them, it will come under political pressure to do so, weakening its deteriorating credit rating and so its ability to borrow internationally at what are by Japanese standards cheap rates in the markets.
Perhaps the most important is that, due in good part to the demise of Executive Life and Mutual Benefit, several rating agencies now scrutinise the ability of life insurers to meet their claims.
Performance status is a rating of a patient's ability to walk and independently handle the activities of daily living, such as dressing or hygiene.
Amazingly, the rating agencies somehow maintained their status, and their ability to move markets, after the dust settled.
So please continue to do that because if you don't pay your mortgage, it will affect your credit rating and that will affect your money -- your ability to raise money, to borrow money at a good interest rate.
The cost of this debt indeed, the bank's ability to raise it at all will be affected by its credit rating.
Then came the European Financial Stability Facility, but it turns out to be too puny to halt the bond vigilantes' rampage through the euro zone, and anyhow rests in part on France's waning ability to join Germany as a guarantor by retaining its triple-A credit rating.
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The question is whether rating agencies (and investors) should worry more about these countries' ability to pay their debts.
One poll for Le Parisien showed a seven-point drop in his approval rating to 48%, as fewer respondents agreed that Sarkozy had the ability to tackle the country's problems.
The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has a rating system for developers, called the Capability Maturity Model, that takes into account ability to produce quality software on time and on budget.
Rating company Standard and Poor's raised the country's long-term sovereign credit rating from "stable" to "positive" last week, citing optimism about the government's ability to carry out structural changes.
Ratings agency Fitch cut Greece's long-term credit rating from B- to CCC Thursday, only one notch above default level, reflecting worries over its ability to remain in the euro currency zone.
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