(n.) A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa, still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt.
(n.) The European polecat; also, its fur.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fitch said there was “material risk to the success of the restructuring”.
(2) In another sign the financial crisis was deepening last night, Fitch cut its ratings on eight of the world's biggest banks, including Barclays, Bank of America, and Deutsche Bank.
(3) A Co-op Bank spokesperson said: "The Co-operative Bank notes the announcement from Fitch.
(4) Data from ratings agency Fitch showed that these funds were still refusing to provide short-term funds to eurozone banks – the same situation that sparked concerns about French banks last year.
(5) "The downgrade of the UK's sovereign ratings primarily reflects a weaker economic and fiscal outlook and hence the upward revision to Fitch's medium-term projections for UK budget deficits and government debt," it said.
(6) Poor's Publishing Company (the predecessor to S&P) emerged in 1916, Fitch in 1924.
(7) Fitch also raised concerns that it could lose customers after the intervention of hedge funds, which are forcing the mutual Co-op Group of funeral homes, supermarkets and pharmacies to cede control of the bank.
(8) In a further blow to the embattled financial services giant, credit-rating agency Fitch downgraded the bank Friday.
(9) The IMF downgraded its forecasts for the UK last week, with its chief economist, Olivier Blanchard, saying the chancellor should reconsider his "strict" austerity programme, and Fitch's downgraded Britain's triple-A rating to AA+.
(10) Thinktank NIESR is predicting a real fall of nearly 5% this year and falls of 1.5% a year for the next four years, while ratings agency Fitch says: "The weak economic outlook and restricted credit availability lead Fitch to consider a further decline of UK house prices of 5-10% annually over the next two years as likely."
(11) In Fitch’s view, the present balance of risks points toward a less benign global outcome.
(12) That followed Fitch's comments yesterday that if delivered upon, the budget would "materially strengthen confidence in UK public finances and its AAA status" .
(13) The other two main rating agencies, S&P and Fitch, had already downgraded Spanish government debt in the spring.
(14) 17 December 2009: Strikes hit Greece as debt crisis grows Thousands of workers take to the streets in protest at Papandreou's cutbacks, hours after Standard & Poor's follows Fitch by cutting Greece's credit rating.
(15) In its latest analysis of the Irish property market at the start of 2014, the ratings agency Fitch said one in five houses where mortgages had been in arrears for three months or more was likely to be repossessed.
(16) If Fitch and the rest are providing a public service and doing so badly, there is scope for governments to regulate them much harder – or even to set up alternatives: the Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang suggests that governments set up an independent UN version of a credit-rating agency.
(17) An extensive phylogenetic study was performed, comparing two phenetic methods (neighbor joining on difference matrix, and Fitch and Margoliash on Knuc values matrix) and one cladistic (parsimony).
(18) Fitch , the credit-rating agency, gave a clear signal that it believes Greece is heading closer to default after it followed the report with a downgrade of the country further into junk territory.
(19) Fitch is to carry out a more detailed review of the US position by the end of the month.
(20) Fitch is the only large ratings agency which still considers France to have a top-notch rating.
Flitch
Definition:
(n.) The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.
(n.) One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.