After flirting with it for weeks, Greek debt was finally given a junk rating.

经过数周的眉来眼去，希腊债务最终被定为垃圾级。

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They should admit that rating agencies, for all their recent failings, may perform a useful function when they slap a junk rating on a country's debt.

他们也必定会承认，已经犯下许多错误的评级机构，对于一国的债务给予垃圾级的评级，可能更能产生积极意义。

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However,concerns about the stability of Greece , and other financially-troubled European countries, increased after the Standard and Poor's credit rating agency downgraded Greek bonds to speculative or "junk" status Tuesday.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

The downgrades left Portugal one notch above junk rating and Greece's creditworthiness below that of Egypt.

BBC: Portugal and Greece downgraded on debt worries

Median default probabilities for Singapore corporations have risen 35-fold since January 1997, to 4.2%, a junk rating.

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And who'd be first in line for an AAA or a junk rating?

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