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President Nicusor Dan, a pro-European centrist, tried to address people's concerns last weekend after Romania avoided a downgrade of its credit rating by Fitch to "junk", or below investment grade.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
He added: "We are currently consulting on proposals to downgrade local authorities who commission these illegal homes."
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
In July, Fitch placed Delaware Life on negative watch and S&P revised its outlook to negative, meaning the company is in danger of a downgrade from both ratings firms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
But the analysts said Ericsson’s outlook implies a low single-digit percentage downgrade to 2026 earnings-per-share estimates and low- to mid-single-digit percentage reductions to 2027.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
The surveillance department was meant to monitor subprime bonds and downgrade them if the loans that underpinned them went bad.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
The brokerage downgrades the stock’s rating to hold from buy and lowers its target price to 25,600.00 rupiah from 31,500.00 rupiah.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The bank downgrades Stellantis to neutral from buy and lowers its price target to 5.80 euros from 9.50 euros.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
They hold that economic growth expectations are lower compared to earlier in the year, which means there’s opportunity for a positive surprise as those downgrades are reversed, they said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
The downgrades, especially to the equivalent of sell ratings on Goldman and Morgan Stanley, reflect the investment-banking industry’s move to “the later part of the cycle,” Kotowski wrote in a note to clients.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
If Moody’s downgrades GE paper, it is a big deal.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
The government initially charged Huerta with a felony count of conspiracy to impede an officer, but later downgraded it to a misdemeanor charge of “obstruction resistance or opposition of a federal officer.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Last month, Horan downgraded AT&T’s stock to perform, citing the risk of Starlink taking market share.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
After hitting Guam and the Northern Marianas on Monday as a super typhoon, Bavi was downgraded to a typhoon as it moved across the Pacific Ocean.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Local authorities who place children in care in unregistered homes could face being downgraded in performance inspections, Ofsted's chief inspector has said.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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
Osterman said many companies treated employees as dispensable, cutting them when convenient, or downgrading them into contractor or part-time roles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Ader upgraded Backblaze shares to Market Perform from Underperform—just a few months after downgrading the stock.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Accompanying that rise has been an increase in attacks on livestock, and that has led to the EU downgrading the "strictly protected" status of wolves to "protected".
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
Through Valerie, Kudrow slyly performs our terminal habit of downgrading devastating developments to champagne problems, merrily chirping her character’s catchphrase, “How’s that?”
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2026
We the people—they refute last week's television commentary downgrading our optimism and our idealism.
From State of the Union Address by Reagan, Ronald
