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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 ...

The other Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... overnight. But at 16.1, this could not even be classed as palpitation - let alone fear. And this is all because of reports that Moody's has junked Portugal. The credit-rating agency cut Portugal's credit rating to Ba2 from Baa1 -making it the second ...

I'm still standing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... banker to make publicly - it's irresponsible. And then there's Standard & Poor's trying to get into the limelight (why must Moody's get all the attention?). It warned that it would give the US a D-rating if it defaults on its debt. To this I say, Duh! ...

Bank stocks rise on Greek confidence

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... the first global credit crisis shook the markets in 2008. Ratings agencies are also scrutinizing the Big Four banks with Moody's downgrading them one notch in May. Gavin Gunning, credit analyst for Standard and Poor's said global capital markets remained ...

Bendigo finds safe harbour from wholesale storm in retail deposits

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... that power discerningly and not pump up the use of the market significantly. Bendigo and Adelaide Bank is rated at A2 by Moody's Investors Service, and was recently upgraded to A- by Fitch.

Market Wrap -Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... debt problems were going to infect other parts of Europe. Markets dropped after a warning at the back end of last week from Moody's over Italian banks' creditworthiness, with the ratings agency saying it was mulling downgrades across the sector. The ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... magnitude. Something would have to cause the fall in the first place. Somewhere on blogosphere there was an item mentioning Moody's downgrade of Italian banks because it may cut the Italian government's sovereign debt rating. And so we come full circle ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... points. There was also bad news for Italy, with the main Milan stock exchange index falling by more than two per cent after Moody's rating agency warned it may cut the country's credit rating in view of strains in the economy. TOKYO - Japanese stocks ...