I'd like to point out that the likelihood of an investment banking relationship until they upgrade their rating is pretty close to zero.

And defenders of the muni market's mentality pointed out that the credit agencies recently upgraded the power authority's rating.

This analysis upgraded its rating to 0.56 and passed it back to the main database module with "questions."

An analyst at Merrill Lynch, however, upgraded his rating on the company for the second time in three weeks.

Mr. Levy upgraded his rating today, but to hold from avoid.

But it almost certainly means that Moody's will not upgrade New York's rating soon.

They said he upgraded his rating to "attractive," from "neutral."

Morgan Stanley & Company upgraded its rating on the stock to a "buy" from a "hold."

In 2009, Ofsted inspected the school again and upgraded its rating to good.

Standard & Poor's recently upgraded the city's rating when the Mayor, responding to the market crash, imposed a 90-day hiring freeze.