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Concerns over care home ratings
Some care homes awarded five-star ratings, which earn them extra payments, are not meeting essential standards set by the care regulator.
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Record ratings for digital radio
Three of the BBC’s digital stations attracted record audiences in the last three months, according to new figures released by Rajar.
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UK enforces video game ratings
Retailers can be prosecuted if they sell games to minors who are underage according to the Pegi system classification.
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Obama attacks on taxes and Bain hit Romney ratings
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sustained attacks by President Barack Obama’s campaign on Republican rival Mitt Romney’s business history and refusal to release more tax records appear to be working, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday.
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Merkel’s public approval ratings soar
The mood flies in the face of days of political sniping over the results of the EU summit late last month. The chancellor stood accused of caving in to Italian, Spanish and French demands
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Tax row sees Carr TV ratings soar
Viewing figures for Jimmy Carr’s Channel 4 show 8 Out of 10 Cats was boosted on Friday, following the furore over his tax affairs.
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Drop pants, increase TV ratings?
Drop your pants. Raise your ratings? CNN’s Jeanne Moos reports on Alec Baldwin’s hairy legs and Letterman’s funny socks.
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Moody’s cuts credit ratings of 15 major banks
Agency downgrades banks found to be vulnerable to “outsized losses”, including Bank of America, Barclays and HSBC.
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Patients’ ratings ‘to boost care’
A new NHS patient rating system – known as the “friends and family test” – is to be introduced to help improve nursing care in England.
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Ratings cut on 26 Italian banks
Ratings agency Moody’s cuts the credit ratings on 26 Italian banks, including Italy’s largest lenders Unicredit and Intesa Sanpaolo.
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S&P cuts Spain ratings two notches to BBB-plus
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Standard & Poor’s on Thursday cut its credit rating on Spain to BBB-plus from A, a two-notch downgrade, citing its expectation the government’s budget deficit will deteriorate even more than previously thought due to economic contraction.…
European banks allowed to use US ratings
EU regulator avoids breakdown in securities markets by letting European banks use credit ratings issued in US for calculating risk-weights
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Ratings firm downgrades Greek debt again
Standard & Poor’s has declared country in “selective default” after a second EU bailout.
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Moody’s may cut 17 banks’ ratings
Moody’s warns that it may cut the credit ratings of 17 banks and financial services firms that it is currently reviewing.
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Ratings agencies quizzed over MF Global
US lawmakers plan this week to grill executives at Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s on what they knew and when ahead of the broker’s collapse
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Fitch cuts Italy, Spain, other euro zone ratings
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Fitch downgraded the sovereign credit ratings of Belgium, Cyprus, Italy, Slovenia and Spain on Friday, indicating there was a 1-in-2 chance of further cuts in the next two years.
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Easterbrook: The NFL dominates TV ratings
Football’s popularity obliterates all other TV programming in its path.
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Eurozone ratings cut reverberates across markets
Traders are paring back racier bets and shifting some funds into perceived havens as fears return that the eurozone debt crisis could sap sentiment.
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EU criticises ratings downgrade
The EU’s top economic official hits out at a decision by Standard and Poor’s to downgrade the credit ratings of nine eurozone countries.
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