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How to use the word downgrade in a Sentence?

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How can we have this commitment from the most powerful countries in the world, the producing countries in the world, the high-coverage countries of the world, the manufacturers of the world, and then we have to downgrade the forecast ? So at this point, we have to try and pull out every single stop to try and manage the situation.

Bruce Aylward

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Asia’s resurgent virus situation, especially among ASEAN economies, has prompted us to downgrade our 2021 growth and FX outlooks for the region, it has also triggered portfolio outflows, which will only ease and reverse when the current pandemic wave has meaningfully ebbed and growth recovery resumes.

Khoon Goh

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

We know from experience that as much as presidents would like to downgrade the status of the Middle East and transatlantic issues in favor of Asia, doing so is far from straightforward. The growing urgency of Asia, however, is here to stay.

Ankit Panda

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The downgrade reflects months of ongoing conflict environment which are testing the 'one country, two systems' framework and which have inflicted damage to the international perception of the quality and effectiveness of Hong Kong's governance and rule of law as well as the stability of its business environment.

Stephen Schwarz

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It appears that various potential strategies noted above were applied to ensure favorable ratings or to avoid the rating downgrade.

Grant Thornton

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The report is too dramatic and it reflects a criminal intent of HRW to continue to downgrade Cambodia.

Huy Vannak

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Human Rights Watch is a professional liar, the report is too dramatic and it reflects a criminal intent of HRW to continue to downgrade Cambodia.

Huy Vannak

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Every year our Commonwealth borrows money and uses accounting gimmicks to meet our obligations, digging us deeper and deeper into a hole, we need new sustainable revenue just to keep the lights on and avoid yet another credit downgrade.

Democratic Senator

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

We need new sustainable revenue just to keep the lights on and avoid yet another credit downgrade.

Democratic Senator

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Moody's seems to be more sensitive to political developments than other agencies. Moody's has kept Turkey's outlook at negative since April 2014, which is a very long period for a rating agency, so there is a sizeable risk of a downgrade.

Ozgur Altug

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

There is a good chance the earnings downgrade cycle may be over for the resources sector, with commodity prices regaining strength and demand fundamentals looking slightly better.

Russ Mould

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

A downgrade looks more likely than it did last week, the question is, if Turkey gets downgraded as a result of this instability does that affect the amount of financing available, and if so how does it affect the growth model?

Kieran Curtis

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The downgrade makes Genel more reliant than they already were on oil price recovery in order to generate value for shareholders.

Daniel Slater

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

A credit downgrade would not be a big deal. There is not enough Aussie bonds on supply and Australia is one of the few countries with a positive yield.

Kumar Palghat

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The downgrade shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, but it is a major issue for the refinancing, the core banks are in a catch 22, they can't all sell out at their desired price, whilst applying usual lending criteria is fraught with the risk that markets worsen and they are left holding the bag.

Robert Southey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The market has been pricing in a downgrade with a negative outlook, anything different from that, such as downgrade with a stable outlook, will be positive for Colombia.

Klaus Spielkamp

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The scale of the downgrade was larger than some people had anticipated, and that has taken a toll on the zloty.

William Jackson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The downgrade also reflects the uncertainty as to whether or not these factors can be improved sustainably and materially, given our expectations of a prolonged commodity downcycle, and the consequent negative sentiment impacting Noble and commodity traders in general.

Joe Morrison

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The lack of a resolution on the state budget and today's downgrade are direct results of the governor's continued focus on issues other than solving our budget crisis.

Michael Madigan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Fed did the right thing. There's no need to rock the boat right now. Again the disconcerting element is the downgrade to the interest rate trajectory, which could provide solace to investor sentiment overall, given the global headwinds, the last thing we need right now was a hike in rates and any kind of hawkish projections.

Brian Dolan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We were underweight but it has gotten too cheap with the downgrade.

Michael Cornelius

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While it is true that a downgrade was priced in to a great extent, we still need to see clear indications of a turnaround in policies.

Pablo Cisilino

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The only reason the finance minister has stuck around is to prevent a downgrade, he has no reason to be there.

Bryan Carter

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The direction has been clear for so long, and many have sold on the rumour and bought on the news, however, this is not a typical downgrade, as it is part of a longer-term evolution - and it is not the last event.

Bryan Carter

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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