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They will deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... for Europe having its own debt problem - and Japan's credit rating already downgraded by Standard & Poor's last January (Moody's warned of a possible downgrade and Fitch lowered its outlook to negative from stable just two months ago) - the US bond market ...

D-E-B-T

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... that it's inconceivable. Already, financial market sentiment is on tenterhooks by warnings from both Standard & Poor's and Moody's that they'll downgrade America's credit rating if the debt ceiling was not raised before the 2 August deadline. For Americans ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... was a 50 per cent chance it will downgrade the government's triple-A rating within three months because of the impasse. Moody's made a similar warning on Wednesday. Even so, there has been little visible progress in negotiations between President Barack ...

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 ...