It says that Railtrack's adversarial relationship with the regulator, Tom Winsor, has contributed to its falling credit rating.
Now that home prices are falling and credit markets are tightening, the 2 million borrowers whose mortgage payments are expected to soon rise are in trouble.
Leaving aside problems such as falling international credit ratings and rising interest rates, there is a risk that even the good bits will not be delivered.
If Sara and Andy are to have a chance of affording their own home without relying on their family, they need prices to go on falling and the credit crunch to ease.
Beset by scarce credit, falling asset prices and costly food, developed-country households are hardly well-equipped to foot the oil bill.
But the Tory home affairs spokesman David Lidington questioned whether Labour could claim the credit for falling crime in any area.
It was Mr Cowen's misfortune to take over just as the Republic was officially going into recession, property prices were falling and the international credit crunch was beginning to bite.
In the first four months of this year, according to Vietnam Ministry of Planning and Investment, some 18, 000 businesses went bankrupt after falling victims of the credit crunch fuelled by inflation.
The UN backed carbon credit price is falling to lows not previously seen: this is excellent news.
We thought ourselves immune from things like plant closings in Iowa and Nebraska, where remote Americans struggled against falling-in roofs and credit card debt.
The report said there were various factors behind the drop including a government obligation that healthy meals are provided, school closures due to bad weather and industrial action, falling school rolls and the credit crunch.
The global economic downturn, the sub-prime mortgage crisis, investment bank failures, falling home prices, and tight credit pushed the United States into a recession by mid-2008.
If the cycle of falling asset prices, insolvency and credit constriction is excessive, the government may have to step in and buy up bad assets en masse, as has often occurred in other financial meltdowns (see article).
The move was prompted by frozen credit markets and concerns about falling demand in the competitive region, she said.
Earnings are being flattered by falling non-performing loans: in credit cards, early delinquencies are the lowest for a decade, according to Nomura.
In cabinet, she took much of the credit for unemployment in France falling below 10% for the first time in many years.
Arnold says credit card companies are worried about falling profits and are trying to protect themselves from rising delinquency rates.
Recession or not, the U.S. is now engulfed in somewhat of a "perfect storm" of economic problems: A rapidly falling dollar, inflation, gummed-up credit markets and rising home foreclosures.
The top three credit ratings agencies have been warning of debt in both the UK and the US since late 2008, when both governments radically increased spending to keep their economies from falling deeper into the blackhole left by the credit crisis.
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If prices fall, this process goes viciously into reverse, and a credit crunch can amplify the impact of falling prices.
Most of those who try to sell are unable to find willing buyers because credit is tight and home prices keep falling.
The fall in sterling will also blunt deflationary pressures that might otherwise exacerbate the credit crisis, since when prices start falling the burden of debt rises in real terms.
Sharp, which has struggled amid falling sales and a rising yen, has had its credit rating cut to "junk" status.
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Falling prices and the looming expiration of the production tax credit, which pays a premium for wind energy, unleashed a wind farm building boom last year.
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So my guess is that credit premia on those bonds would be steady or falling.
Keeping up with the rising cost of living and credit card debt were top concerns preventing people from falling asleep, according to the results from ComPsych Corporation, which surveyed employees of companies it serves.
The most sweeping intervention of all came from Ireland's government, where concerns about spiking credit-default swap (CDS) spreads, falling share prices and jittery depositors led the finance minister to announce, on September 30th, a blanket guarantee on the deposits and almost all the debts of the country's six biggest banks until September 2010.
If credit was the issue we might expect spreads to be falling, but they are widening.
The economy was losing jobs at a rate of close to 700, 000 jobs a month, credit markets were functioning poorly, and real GDP was falling at a breakneck pace.
Revenues are stagnating or falling in most of its businesses compared with last year, before the credit crisis erupted.
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