downgrade
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Many market participants had anticipated that Moody’s could opt to downgrade France.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
The reason Goldman Sachs cites for its target downgrade is not a decline in earnings.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Moody’s is expected by investors on Friday to downgrade France’s credit rating, while retaining the country’s investment-grade status.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
His downgrade of AT&T doesn’t reflect a dramatically different view of the company’s financial prospects in the short run.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Stupidly, I tried to downgrade his attack by smiling.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Since credit rating agencies take time to issue downgrades, the CDS market provides earlier signals of potential problems, Hunt said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
For Joseph Barker and Dominic Ball at Rothschild, the company’s disappointing outlook is now putting downgrades to near-term estimates in focus.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
Hana downgrades the stock to neutral from buy and lowers its target price to 60,000 won from 80,000 won.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
So when a strategist downgrades the sector from overweight to market-weight and swaps the exposure to healthcare, investors should pay attention —because it doesn’t happen very often.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
If Moody’s downgrades GE paper, it is a big deal.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Several analysts downgraded shares of Nvidia on Thursday.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026
Despite “struggling mightily,” Rason downgraded the stock from outperform to market-perform, citing potential investigations into Huang and Nvidia.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
Several major investment firms have downgraded their forecasts for the chip giant - a rare shift given investors' longstanding optimism about the company.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
The International Monetary Fund earlier in October downgraded its expectations for French growth this year to 0.4%, down from 0.9% in April, and warned that the country needed to get its public finances in order.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
I can’t believe he actually just downgraded Peeta’s dire circumstances to a setback.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
The tech-sector turbulence could still get worse, strategists at Citi said Monday in a note downgrading the sector.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
On Monday, shortly after authorities began downgrading some mandatory evacuation orders to warnings around Somersett, Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam said people were already venturing too far into dangerous wildlands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
In a 760-page report published in April, he called for the end of what he described as a "culture" of agencies passing responsibility between each other or downgrading their own involvement in cases like this.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Ader upgraded Backblaze shares to Market Perform from Underperform—just a few months after downgrading the stock.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
A change in the method of productivity planning, which involved a redefinition of productivity as a calculated index, is reported to have been widely misinterpreted as downgrading the importance of productivity.
From Area Handbook for Albania by Sarah Jane Elpern
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