In that same time frame there was a 42% increase in the recording of federal tax liens against taxpayers with an attendant adverse impact on their credit rating.
Representatives from credit agencies said that the changes would have had a harsh impact on Enron's rating and, as a result, its access to financing.
The March sold in Brazil obtained a 7.62 rating in its frontal-impact test.
In reality the central bank will point to recent pockets of positive economic news, already low yields, which would arguably mitigate much of any lead they might take to encourage borrowing and might even spin the positive impact of the U.S. credit-rating downgrade.
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In the Lords (from 3pm) question time covers the role of ratings agencies and the impact of any downgrade of the UK's credit rating and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Dr David Livingstone.
Often what does positively impact a flick's bottom line is a film's rating.
Wells Fargo, which reiterated its overweight rating, noted that its international exposure shields it from the negative impact of the merger.
According to rating agencies, heading over the fiscal cliff might have a similar impact for the U.S. government as a so-called Grand Bargain, which could capture the revenue increases Democrats are pining for and the spending cuts Republicans continue to hold out on.
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Many analysts, including the rating agencies that gave the mortgage debt high ratings, also badly miscalculated the impact of the mortgage crisis.
And the BBC's Hugh Pym said that while it was unlikely to have a huge market impact, the downgrade was very much a moment of political significance because the UK had not lost its AAA rating since the 1970s.
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