The single most important reason for the downgrade to consumption growth in 2005 was weaker spending on household durables like freezers.
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The IMF downgrade to its global GDP forecast and a note from Goldman Sachs advising profit-taking in commodities has investors targeting downside risk.
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Some bond insurers have been trying to raise capital to thwart a downgrade to their credit ratings, the effect of which would be to cripple new business.
While Asian investors consider the possibility of a US credit downgrade to an unlikely scenario of a default on US sovereign debt, market declines were relatively tepid early out.
August was a particularly unfortunate month: it began with a reckless stand-off over raising the national debt limit and a downgrade to America's credit rating, and ended with a hurricane.
Align Technologies, which is known for the Invisalign system that corrects misaligned teeth, sold off more than 8% on Tuesday morning thanks to a Northcoast Research downgrade to sell from buy.
The downgrade to Italian debt was a signal that worry over Greece leaving the EU is mounting within the analyst community, and the economies most exposed to Greek debt are at risk.
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SunTrust Banks ( STI) is not one of my eight choices as this stock, which was rated a BUY according to ValuEngine, had a rare triple downgrade to STRONG SELL on August 10th.
The standing of the fund relies on the credit of the countries that back it, including France, which is threatened with a two-notch downgrade to its AAA credit rating by Standard and Poor's.
The brinkmanship that preceded the increase in the debt ceiling on August 2nd, the downgrade to America's credit rating and the fiscal turbulence in Europe, are the sorts of things that could produce a self-fulfilling collapse in confidence.
Based on these and other fundamental valuation metrics, we may be inclined to downgrade Hershey to Overvalued in an upcoming report.
They made a judgment call that it would be easier to get 0.8 nodes to downgrade than to get the older nodes to upgrade.
With one eye on the global rating agencies that threatened to downgrade India to junk status, P Chidambaram has ruthlessly slashed expenditure in 2012-13 to contain the fiscal deficit.
He urged the government to downgrade the orders to a one-line whip.
Sources told the BBC the decision to downgrade key commitments to long term aspirations involved "difficult" conversations with senior Lib Dems and a "Herculean struggle" on Mr Clegg's part.
"Although we believe that Volvo will profit from its global brand positioning, the short-term uncertainty leads us to downgrade our rating to 'sell, '" analyst Jose Asumendi said in a research note.
Walton's belonging intervention has the potential to downgrade uncontrollable stress by allowing people to put a narrative around their traumatic experiences.
The sourpuss bond rating agencies weren't so sure and said they're reviewing Valero's BBB-credit rating and might downgrade it to junk status.
The school has also lost some of its sponsors and is facing a possible credit downgrade thanks to its ongoing legal fiasco.
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Ireland's downgrade contributed to fresh anxiety on Europe's edge.
Some have suggested ratings firms should have a financial stake in the accuracy of their ratings, but that would also give them a financial reason not to downgrade bonds, since that tends to drive down their price.
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As for that UBS tipping case, 12 of the defendants have settled or pleaded guilty, including Mitchel Guttenberg, the former institutional client manager of UBS's research department who was accused of selling upcoming downgrade tips to hedge fund clients in a scheme hatched with a friend at New York's Oyster Bar.
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is expected to downgrade its forecasts for growth in figures to be released alongside Mr Osborne's statement.
We may quibble that those are anything but riskless assets for the banks, but what national bank regulators are going to downgrade and mark down their own sovereign debt to fail their own banks?
"The main driver underpinning Moody's decision to downgrade the UK's government bond rating to AA1 is the increasing clarity that, despite considerable structural economic strengths, the UK's economic growth will remain sluggish over the next few years due to the anticipated slow growth of the global economy and the drag on the UK economy, " Moody's said.
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During the Gulf War, McDermott made sure that he accommodated the needs of his account holders encouraging those sent to the Gulf to downgrade their car insurance if the car was going to sit in the garage while the person was overseas.
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In the current European crisis, ratings firms had begun to downgrade peripheral euro-zone countries years before bond markets woke up to default risk.
Research recommendations have to go through a departmental approval process, meaning the decision to downgrade was reached days before the public disclosure, leaving time for the information to leak out.
The judge reserved the right to downgrade his ruling at any time, but Mr Pistorius' legal team will now need to prove he deserves bail despite facing the most serious charge.
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