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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... 27.02 points to 9,936.12, while the Topix index shed 3.65 points, or 0.42 per cent, to 856.88 amid US dollar weakness after Moody's rating agency threatened the debt-saddled US with a downgrade. The Nikkei index briefly entered positive territory shortly ...

Credit hits the fan as Moody's puts US on downgrade watch

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
Major credit ratings agency Moody's Investors Service has placed the US on a review for possible downgrade prompting US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to issue dire warnings on the global impact a US debt default would have. US lawmakers have ...

Knights in shining armour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... indicate that an adjustment of monetary policy would be appropriate." This is a slap in the face of yet another threat from Moody's. Last night, the credit-rater warned that it's put the US under review and could remove one A from America's AAA credit ...

US Fed hints at QE3

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... pledge to hold interest rates exceptionally low for an extended period. The news was not enough to buoy markets rattled by Moody's downgrade of Ireland's credit rating to junk status. Grant Cullens, director of Global Value Investors, managers of a value-based ...

Goodnight Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
And so one by one the dominoes are junked. First Greece, then Portugal and now Ireland. That's the order Moody's took them out - one after the other. But what surprised for equity markets was just a ho-hum matter for bond investors. Know why? Just look ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... enough to keep bad news about Ireland from sinking US stocks. Ireland's government bonds were downgraded by ratings agency Moody's to junk status shortly before US markets closed, sending stocks sharply lower and erasing the day's gains. The move puts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... both moves as expected. The euro was slightly firmer, supported by the ECB rate rise after sharp falls following a drastic Moody's ratings downgrade to junk status for Portugal on Tuesday, which stoked fears the eurozone debt crisis still has a long ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... world's second-largest economy and as worries mounted about Europe's debt crisis. European Union officials lashed out at the Moody's ratings agency a day after its downgrade of Portugal, while anxious bond investors drove up yields for Spanish and Portuguese ...

Not in the mood for bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... the hard landing that some investors fear." And by the by, because I ran out of space yesterday I failed to mention that Moody's (yes, it again) released a report on China the other day noting that its calculations show that the Chinese banking system's ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... trading Richard Herring said weakness in the banking sector was the main factor contributing to the market's losses. He said Moody's downgrade of Portugal's government debt overnight was the reason for weakness in the banking sector. "Portugal was downgraded ...