The Mayor has promised bond-rating agencies to reduce the number of city employees by 15,000.

AT&T plans significant steps to reduce its high level of debt, the company has told bond-rating agencies.

But it contains an exemption for the bond-rating agencies.

But the bond-rating agency also said the state's long-term financial outlook was poor.

The major bond-rating agencies have placed Suffolk on their credit-watch list.

Whatever he does will be watched by other unions, state fiscal monitors and bond-rating agencies.

The bond-rating agency also placed the hospital on its list of institutions whose finances warrant close attention by bond holders.

Her father is a director of business development for the debt-rating services group at Standard & Poor's, the bond-rating agency.

Such measures have been questioned in the past by the city's two bond-rating agencies.

The bond-rating agencies had been putting pressure on the company to reduce debt, and it had promised to do so.