How to Use credit rating in a Sentence

credit rating

noun

• Its investment-grade credit rating is hanging on by a thread; several ratings agencies putting the planemaker on watch for a cut to junk-bond territory.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 9 Oct. 2024
• Instead, there’s now a warning on the credit rating on the MTA’s bonds.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 June 2024
• In 2011, a prolonged fight over the debt limit led to a downgrade in the nation’s credit rating.
  — Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
• This is not the first time the United States has experienced a change in credit rating.
  — Vivi Smilgius, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• Overall economic growth is solid in The Gem State, and so is the state’s credit rating.
  — Scott Cohn, CNBC, 18 July 2024
• In his early 40s, Mr. Jimenez has been looking for two years and has worked hard to improve his credit rating.
  — Leonardo Bevilacqua, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2024
• The selloff in stocks and bonds came after Fitch's downgrade of the U.S. credit rating earlier this week.
  — David Uberti, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2023
• One agency has warned the US credit rating is at risk of a downgrade, even as the deadline approaches.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
• Currently California’s credit rating falls in the middle of the pack among the 50 states.
  — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
• The role of the credit rating firms is to assess the likelihood of those eventualities.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• First Republic's stock is tumbling, and so is its credit rating.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2023
• Paramount is currently weighed down by a heavy debt load that threatens its credit rating.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 8 July 2024
• The company is at risk of losing its investment grade credit rating for the first time in its history.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 24 June 2024
• In a weird stroke of irony, the U.S. government’s credit rating was downgraded the same day that Donald Trump was indicted for a historic third time.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
• That marks the seventh straight quarter of sales declines for the company, S&P said in its recent credit rating report.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 13 June 2023
• Fitch, a credit rating agency, said on Friday that the company's credit could be reduced to junk status if the strike lasts longer than a couple of weeks.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2024
• That’s despite what’s been shaping up to be a banner year for the US stock market — at least prior to this week’s US credit rating downgrade (more on that below).
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 3 Aug. 2023
• But by Friday, Aug. 5, when S&P downgraded the country’s credit rating, the index had dropped by over 10 percent.
  — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 9 May 2023
• Oh, and the US is yet again on the precipice of another government shutdown, an event that could result in a downgrade to its credit rating and lead to volatility in US stocks.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 28 Sep. 2023
• The credit bureaus did nothing to restore my credit rating.
  — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
• Fitch Ratings this week moved Boeing’s credit rating closer to junk bond status.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2024
• But most candidates say the country is moving in the wrong direction, pointing to a downgrade of Panama’s credit rating in March.
  — Leila Miller, New York Times, 5 May 2024
• Borrowing too much would hurt the state’s credit rating, increasing costs for future bonds.
  — Julia Shumway, oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2023
• Failure to do so, or even a standoff that increases the risk of the U.S. defaulting on its debt, could lower the nation’s credit rating and push up interest rates.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
• In May, the company reported a first quarter loss of $54.6 million and Moody’s downgraded its credit rating out of concern about its dispute with the union.
  — Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 27 June 2023
• Moody’s, along with Fitch Ratings and S&P, has said that such reforms threaten the country’s relatively high credit rating.
  — Max Raskin, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2023
• Israel’s war has shrunk its GDP and hurt its credit rating, creating obstacles for Israeli firms looking to raise funds.
  — Simone Lipkind, TIME, 19 June 2024
• On Friday, the credit rating agencies Fitch and Moody’s noted that a downgrade of Boeing’s credit rating into junk bond status is on the horizon.
  — Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 16 Sep. 2024
• Adding to the gloom: after Chinese markets closed, Moody’s Investors Service cut its outlook on the country’s credit rating to negative.
  — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
• On Friday, the ratings firm revised its outlook to negative, from stable, while affirming a ‘BBB’ credit rating.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024