(b) To the geographic location of the place of business of the issuer or signatory.

The Euro Zone s Default Position

Rating the Raters

Predictions of outright default are far fetched.

Where's the game rating system?

August 2 came and went, with no default, but, three days later, a Friday, Standard Poor s lowered its rating on long term US debt from AAA to AA .

Credit Default Swaps on Trial

Her political rating is sturdy, too.

Even the US lost its AAA standing.

His ratings have dipped below 50 for the first time.

Avoiding default may be possible, but it will not be easy.

Nor does Greece s default history inspire confidence.

That is evident from their credit ratings.

Sooner or later, Putin s approval rating will plummet.

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Credit default swaps (CDS) are particularly suspicious instruments.

The gaps between German bond yields and Italian and Greek yields are at record levels. The price of default insurance has tripled.

The price of default insurance has tripled.

Poor s raised its credit rating to investment grade.

Argentina's collapse incited the largest default in history.

The most recent threat of a US debt default has been avoided, but only temporarily.

Consider Uruguay, whose rating was downgraded to selective default for two weeks while the exchange was occurring, and then was upgraded (though not to investment grade) when, thanks to the exchange s success, its public debt became more sustainable.

In the US, the approval rating of Congress is at a record low of 14 .

One can find a ranking for almost every form of human activity.

In other words, there is no basis to claim that Putin s approval rating is declining.

The ranking metric we used belongs to Yandex, which describes its methodology as follows

He has been rated as high as 2709 (in the January 2013 list).

(Indeed, by most accounts, it is about to default.)

If Greece defaults, an enormous amount of speculation will be possible.

Ten universities in China and Hong Kong are ranked higher.

But to make ratings work, the raters need to be rated.

Poor s has put the already low A rating under review for a possible downgrade.

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Indeed, CDSs are blamed as one of the main causes of the financial crisis.

The country code is the ISO 3166 1 alpha 2 code for the country of issue, which is not necessarily the country where the issuing company is domiciled.

And, with approval ratings in the single digits, there s nowhere to go but up.

Poor s lowered its rating on long term US debt from AAA to AA .

The review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 73 approval rating, based on 41 reviews.

Since each issuer represented a small fraction of their revenues, rating agencies were unwilling to compromise their reputation for the sake of any single issuer.

Instead of defaulting, countries arranged rescue packages with the IMF.

But markets are already assigning a high probability to a Greek default.

The costs of default depend on how messy things become when payments stop.

But, for the most part, the sovereign default process is slow motion Kabuki theater.

In the midst of the shutdown, the Republican Party s popular approval rating sank to barely a quarter of the national electorate, a historic low, while the approval rating for Congress as a whole stood at just 5 .

Since then, his administration s approval rating has dropped from 80 to 50 .