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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... the world is set for another recession, analysts said. French banking shares dived more than 10 per cent on concerns that Moody's credit rating agency might downgrade their ratings because of the amount of Greek debt bonds they hold. At close in Europe ...

Tyndall expands credit team

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... has added to its fixed interest team with the appointment of two new credit analysts. Chris Rands has joined Tyndall from Moody's Investors Service where he was an analyst in its structured finance business. Simon Wang has joined Tyndall from Navigator ...

Moody's does an S&P

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... of ignore, no one's been talking about Japan since the 11 March earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster. Well, no one until Moody's got itchy fingers again that is. Less than three weeks after Standard and Poor's downgrade of the US' credit-rating from AAA ...

US S&P president replaced

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... the US on negative outlook. There have also been reports that The U.S. Justice Department is investigating both S&P and Moody's over ratings of mortgage-backed securities. Standard & Poor's is the leading credit ratings company and a division of The ...

ANZ shows increased profit and deposit growth

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... downgrade by Standard & Poor's later this year after it implements a new criteria for rating the world's banking industry. Moody's Investor Services cut a notch from the Big Four on May 18, raising overseas wholesale funding concerns. "Customer funding ...

Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... credit ratings agencies will do what Standard & Poor's did to the USA that did it. The powers that be - Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings - later denied the rumour and re-affirmed France's 'AAA' rating. And so...we've come ...

Rates rise in Italy while Cypriot pension funds withdraw cash

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... billion euros in May to 6.1 billion euros in June, a fall of 1.4 billion euros in just one month, reports said. Ratings agency Moody's Investors Service has reportedly downgraded major Cypriot banks Marfin Popular Bank and Bank of Cyprus for their Greek ...

Now for the denominator

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... worry about a US credit rating downgrade even after the deal had been autographed. Perhaps these are those that haven't read Moody's and Standard & Poor's declarations last week that the USA will keep its AAA - deal or no deal. That's it! Finito. Now ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... surprisingly poor growth data out of Washington. The euro gained against the dollar on the worrying US news and despite Moody's ratings agency issuing a gloomy warning over Spain. Investors focused on the potential of a US downturn and set aside company ...

It's a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... known that he was "more optimistic" that congressional negotiators and President Barack Obama are "very close" to a deal. Moody's Investors Service -- that omnipotent arbiter of all things involving debt - already covered its behind even before the announcement. ...