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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title> Yahoo! Finance: Upgrades &amp; Downgrades </title><link>http://biz.yahoo.com/topic/upgrades-downgrades/</link><description>The latest news on Upgrades &amp; Downgrades  from Yahoo! Finance </description><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:05:00 Etc/GMT</lastBuildDate><image><url>http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/fi/pr/40197.gif</url><title>Yahoo! Finance</title><link>http://finance.yahoo.com</link><width>144</width><height>17</height></image><item><title>Fitch: Additional CMBS Actions Unlikely as Peter Cooper/Stuy Town Moves to Special Servicing (Business Wire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/091106/20091106005945.html?.v=1</link><description>NEW YORK----Fitch Ratings does not expect to take any negative rating actions following the transfer of the Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town loan to special servicing today. 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In addition, Fitch affirms its &apos;AA+&apos; rating on the City of Beverly Hills&apos; $192.9 million outstanding lease revenue bonds and its implied general obligation bond rating of &apos;AAA.&apos; The city has no outstanding GO bonds.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/4016918644</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:13:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fitch Upgrades CYCL&apos;s Ratings to &apos;A&apos; Following Acquisition (Business Wire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/091106/20091106005909.html?.v=1</link><description>CHICAGO----Fitch Ratings has upgraded the following ratings of Centennial Communications Corp. and its subsidiaries subsequent to AT&amp;T&apos;s Inc. announcement that it had completed the acquisition of CYCL on Nov. 6, 2009.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/1371547396</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:51:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Wall St. rises 3 percent for week on Friday&apos;s slim gain (Reuters)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/091106/business_us_markets_stocks.html?.v=12</link><description>U.S. stocks rose 3 percent for the week after ending Friday&apos;s session slightly higher, shrugging off government data showing the unemployment rate hit 10.2 percent -- the highest in 26-1/2 years.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/3067969208</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:33:55 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fitch Rates NY State Empire State Dev Corp $1.5B PIT Bonds &apos;AA-&apos;; Outlook Stable (Business Wire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/091106/20091106005856.html?.v=1</link><description>NEW YORK----Fitch Ratings assigns an &apos;AA-&apos; rating to $1.5 billion Empire State Development Corporation state personal income tax revenue bonds , consisting of</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/492296013</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:48:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A.M. Best Revises Outlook to Stable for Upland Mutual Insurance, Inc. (Business Wire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/091106/20091106005842.html?.v=1</link><description>OLDWICK, N.J.----A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to stable from positive and affirmed the issuer credit rating of âbbbâ of Upland Mutual Insurance, Inc. . Additionally, A.M. Best has affirmed the financial strength rating of B++ of Upland.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/610588038</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:45:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fitch Affirms Campbell&apos;s IDRs at &apos;A/F1&apos;; Outlook Stable (Business Wire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/091106/20091106005845.html?.v=1</link><description>CHICAGO----Fitch Ratings has affirmed the credit ratings of Campbell Soup Company as follows:</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/1326459761</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:31:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fitch Corrects Bond Description on Wayne County, Michigan&apos;s $25MM Limited Tax GOs (Business Wire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/091106/20091106005841.html?.v=1</link><description>CHICAGO----Fitch Ratings corrects the bond description on recently rated Wayne County, Michigan limited tax building improvement bonds. The bonds originally named general obligation limited tax building improvement bonds, series 2009B are now named general obligation limited tax building improvement bonds, series 2009A.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/1913744677</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:27:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fitch Rates Northside ISD, TX&apos;s $85.4MM ULT Bonds &apos;AA&apos;; Outlook Stable (Business Wire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/091106/20091106005833.html?.v=1</link><description>AUSTIN, Texas----Fitch Ratings assigns an &apos;AA&apos; rating to the following series of Northside Independent School District, Texas&apos; unlimited tax bonds:</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/1245682158</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:21:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fitch Rates California Public Works Board $1.3B Lease Revs &apos;BBB-&apos; (Business Wire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/091106/20091106005825.html?.v=1</link><description>NEW YORK----Fitch Ratings assigns a &apos;BBB-&apos; 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from &apos;A&apos;.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/296321884</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:56:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fitch Rates Minneapolis, Minnesota&apos;s $46.4MM GOs &apos;AAA&apos;; Outlook Stable (Business Wire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/091106/20091106005798.html?.v=1</link><description>CHICAGO----Fitch Ratings has assigned an &apos;AAA&apos; rating to the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota&apos;s following issues:</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/3288000868</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:43:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fitch Withdraws Rating on CA Enterprise Dev Auth (Community Hospice), VRDBs Series 2006 (Business Wire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/091106/20091106005785.html?.v=1</link><description>NEW YORK----Fitch Ratings withdraws the long-term and short-term rating assigned to the $4,795,000 California Enterprise Development Authority variable rate demand revenue bonds , , series 2006.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/990881082</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:27:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fitch Affirms Life Care Ponte Vedra, Florida&apos;s Bonds at &apos;BBB&apos;; 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In addition, Fitch has affirmed its &apos;F1+&apos; short-term rating on $100 million in outstanding series 2008A&amp;B revenue bonds.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2744244553</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:08:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fitch Rates Bethel, Connecticut&apos;s 2009 GOs &apos;AA&apos; &amp; GO BANs &apos;F1+&apos;; Outlook Stable (Business Wire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/091106/20091106005751.html?.v=1</link><description>NEW YORK----Fitch Ratings assigns an &apos;AA&apos; rating to the town of Bethel, Connecticut&apos;s $38.2 million of general obligation bonds, consisting of the following issues:</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/1906928565</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:49:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss><!-- c12.finance.sp2.yahoo.com compressed/chunked Sun Nov  8 02:18:11 PST 2009 -->
