downgrade
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Though the segment’s downgrade is disappointing, it won’t taint sentiment too much, Clements wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 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
Higher crude prices and "protracted uncertainty and structural headwinds" led the International Monetary Fund to last week slightly downgrade its projection for China's annual growth this year to 4.5 percent.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
She told them, for instance, that even though she was responsible for evaluating subprime mortgage bonds, she wasn’t allowed by her bosses simply to downgrade the ones she thought deserved to be downgraded.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Forsyth Barr downgrades Oceania to neutral, from outperform, and lowers its price target by 20% to NZ$0.80/share.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 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
The Met, which is attempting to reverse annual losses and credit rating downgrades, seemed to have found a way forward in September 2025 when it unveiled a partnership with the Saudi Music Commission.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 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
Rating agencies, including S&P and Kroll, downgraded the city to a “negative” outlook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Having downgraded the sector to neutral only three weeks ago, Deutsche Bank strategists have now reversed that call and are recommending investors overweight it once more.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 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 pulled my feelings book from under my pillow, flipped to the current page, and downgraded from desperate to mediocre.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
The tech-sector turbulence could still get worse, strategists at Citi said Monday in a note downgrading the sector.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
While the downgrading of Sunday’s storms brought some relief, risks continue across the California coast until Tuesday, and there is the longer-term concern of what is expected to be an active El Niño season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
“After sharp outperformance, stock is on 16.5x mid-cycle price-to-earnings, making it harder to chase,” says analyst Michael Simotas, downgrading Ampol to hold from buy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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
There's only leased access, and Heritage keeps raising its rates and downgrading its production services, thus decreasing access.
From Diamond Dust by K. Kay Shearin
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