"In Japan, everything continues for as long as it can continue, " says Akio Mikuni, president of a credit-rating company.
The revision in the bank line ratings reflects delays in debt servicing by the company in the month of March, 2012, said the rating company.
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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.
The rating company pays a panel of listeners in every radio market it measures to keep a weekly diary of their radio listening habits, and jot down which station they listened to and for how long.
Li Fei, analyst for Dagong Global Credit Rating Company and author of the bond rating report, told FORBES that optical fiber preform is the upstream product of the optical fiber industry and requires high technical content in its manufacturing techniques.
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Morgan analyst Rod Hall, who raised his rating on the company to Overweight from Neutral.
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The 162-year-old New York-based financial services firm American Express holds the top spot with a company rating of 3.7.
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Last year it held the top spot with a 4.0 company rating.
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Facebook was ranked as the top employer for a second time, with an overall company rating of 4.7 out of a possible 5.
PwC also earned a 3.7 company rating up from 3.4 last year.
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Southwest Airlines, which topped the 2010 list, is second in 2011, with a 4.4 company rating and a 95% approval rating for its CEO, Gary C.
Facebook led the pack with an overall company rating of 4.6 out of a possible 5, while Zuckerberg himself earned a 96% approval rating from his employees.
In justifying his strong buy rating on the company, Carl Byrns at Dain Rauscher Wessels points to an anti-viral drug: Peg-intron plus ribavirin combination therapy for Hepatitis C.
Marsh doesn't have a rating on the company, but he says Imax is an important part of the trend to make movies a special, outside the home experience.
Shares of Internet radio player Pandora are trading lower Monday morning after Morgan Stanley analyst Scott Devitt cut his rating on the company to Equal Weight from Overweight.
Despite all the concerns, Merrill Ross, an analyst at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey kept her outperform rating on the company, adding that there is no potential for write-downs from the announcement.
Late Wednesday, Moody's Investors Service said it might downgrade Ambac's all-important triple-A financial-strength credit rating after the company forecast significantly higher-than-expected losses from insuring credit derivatives, many of them tied to subprime mortgages.
He maintains his Sell rating on the company.
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Sprint shares took a hit today after Raymond James analyst Ric Prentiss cut his rating on the company to Market Perform from Outperform, urging investors to take profits after a recent rally in the shares.
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Southwest Airlines ( LUV - news - people ), which topped the 2010 list, is second in 2011, with a 4.4 company rating and a 95% approval rating for its CEO, Gary C.
Research In Motion shares are trading modestly higher Tuesday morning after Bernstein Research analyst Pierre Ferragu raised his rating on the company to Market Perform from Underperform, asserting that the company could now be an acquisition candidate.
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If one of the monolines were to lose its cherished AAA rating a prospect that no longer looks far-fetched huge numbers of securities would be adversely affected, since they cannot have a higher rating than the company insuring them.
Such a drastic change in our rating on a company is possible only when two rare events occur simultaneously: (1) the business accomplishes a dramatic improvement in its underlying economics, and (2) the market price fails to recognize the turnaround.
Late Wednesday, Moody's Investors Service said it might downgrade Ambac's (nyse: ABK - news - people ) all-important triple-A financial-strength credit rating after the company forecast significantly higher-than-expected losses from insuring credit derivatives, many of them tied to subprime mortgages.
Likely catalysts such as a possible late-March iPad refresh with a lower price point on the iPad 2, a mid-year iPhone refresh, and the launch of the iOS-based television launch in late 2012 or early 2013 back up the positive rating for the company.
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Centralised decision-making is important in making sure that the rating given on one company or country's bonds is not out of line with the rating on another's.
The credit rating agencies are very unhappy at the idea of allowing a company a higher credit rating than the sovereign nation in which they are domiciled.
Cowen and Company analyst Tom Watts maintained an "outperform" rating on Sprint Nextel after hearing the company will be jointly bidding with various cable companies in the Federal Communications Commission's high-stakes auction for wireless spectrum June 29.
YCharts Pro gives Aruba an average rating on fundamentals mainly because the company is a little too young to show the track record required of a higher rating.
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