Investor confidence in a global economic recovery took a hit after international rating agency Standard &Poor's downgraded the US long-term credit rating from AAA to AA+.

国际等级机构标准普尔将美国长期信用等级由AAA降至AA+后，投资者对受此冲击的全球经济复苏仍然自信。

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Dagong, which has maintained a pessimistic outlook on US fiscal policy, has been leading the charge to downgrade US debt over the last 12 months, lowering the US rating from AA to a + a year ago.

大公公司一直对美国的财政政策持悲观态度，在过去的12个月里主导了对美国的债务降级，并在一年前将美国评级从AA降级到A +。

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Dagong downgraded the US rating from AA to a + in November 2010 after the US government announced a second round of quantitative easing.

美国启动第二轮量化宽松措施后，大公国际于2010年11月将美国信用评级从aa下调至a +。

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All three major credit rating agencies have threatened to reduce the US sovereign debt rating a notch to AA if the debt ceiling is not raised and if the US budget remains in deep deficit.

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