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Pressure on yields continues

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
As new liquidity requirements push demand for state debt higher and Australia's AAA rating holds, there is no end in sight for downward pressure on yields, according to an industry expert. Added pressure from foreign borrowing and high bank demand looks ...

Priced in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
Standard & Poor's was at it - slashing - again last night. After lopping off one A out of France's and Austria's AAA credit rating at the end of last week, it did the same for the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF). According to S&P: "We consider ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... 6,220.01 points as investors cheered news that international ratings agency Standard & Poor's had maintained Germany's hard-won AAA credit rating. Milan was up by 1.4 per cent and Madrid was essentially unchanged. In foreign exchange trades, the euro ...

The times, they're not a -changin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... and are now rated AA+ -- the same as America. Only Germany, The Netherlands, Finland and Luxembourg retained the precious AAA rating. But for how long, I wonder? Now the heat is on. Europe must do something BIG and NOW before the entire region gets buried ...

Chinalising Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... tough ask if you ask me. Ratings downgrade speculation. The latest one being that Standard & Poor's is about to slash France's AAA credit rating. Although it did not happen overnight, statements by French authorities and the ECB before "the fact" suggests ...

Plan 5 and counting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... eurozone; (2) Markedly higher risk premiums on a growing number of eurozone sovereigns, including some that are currently rated 'AAA'; (3) Continuing disagreements among European policy makers on how to tackle the immediate market confidence crisis and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... credit rating agency warned on Monday that it might downgrade 15 countries that use the euro, even Germany, which has a perfect AAA rating and Europe's strongest economy. On Tuesday, S&P said it might also cut the AAA rating of Europe's bailout fund. ...

PIGS!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
You're all pigs now! It's just as well that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cut interest rates when they did -- the RBA lowered the official cash rate to 4.25% from 4.5% yesterday. It may have taken the Financial Times report leaking that Standard ...

Half-filled empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... Still in the old country, La Tribune reports of speculation that Standard & Poor's could downgrade the outlook for France's AAA rating, before an actual downgrade. Moody's too was on warning mood. It placed the subordinated debt of 87 EU banks on review ...

Lookin' for trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... election, winning 186 seats of the 350-seat parliament. Moody's warned France... again. While it noted that the country's AAA-rating is not under pressure "at this stage", rising bond yields and weaker growth prospects threaten France's stable outlook. ...