Agency Ratings的意思|示意

Bond markets are nervous: Moody's, a ratings agency, this week put France's AAA rating under surveillance and spreads over German Bunds have widened to 19-year highs.

债券市场也很紧张：评级机构穆迪公司在本周将法国的AAA评级纳入监督之中，并且整个德国国债扩展至19年来的最高点。

On May 20th Fitch, a ratings agency, cut the country’s debt rating by another three notches.

五月20日，惠誉评级将希腊债务评级再度下调三个等级。

Neither country is out of the woods—this week Moody’s, a ratings agency, downgraded Italy’s debt—but attention has returned to the country where it all began last year: Greece.

这两个国家，谁也没跑了：这周，穆迪评级机构下调了意大利的债务评级。 但是大家的注意力却重新转向源头——这场始于去年的危机的起源国——希腊。

The ratings agency said it made the upgrade, "based on the company's strengthened capital position and improved risk profile."

该评级机构称，此番评级调整是基于公司目前稳定强健的资金状况，以及公司在风险预测方面上有所改进的现状做出的。

“It's hard to see anything that justifies the belief that she is serious about greater fiscal discipline,” says Mauro Leos of Moody's, a ratings agency.

“她严肃对待更大的财政原则的理念，但很难看到什么举措来辩护”评级机构穆迪的Mauro Leos 说。

And last Thursday the ratings agency said that it might downgrade 13 Italian Banks if the nation's sovereign rating was cut.

上周四，该评级机构称，若意大利主权债务评级下调，还将下调13家意大利银行的评级。