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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 ...

The road to ruin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
In case you missed it, former US Federal Reserve Alan 'el maestro' Greenspan has just declared Greece dead - well, almost. No way out. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Greenspan declared that the "chances of Greece not defaulting are very ...

Back to cactus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... on how to salvage the Greek ruins. This is compounded by the re-ignition of violent protests on the streets of Athens and Moody's warning that it might slash the credit ratings of French banks because of their exposure to Greece. As an aside, I came ...

Fear is in the air

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... wouldn't even have to justify QE3... one and all would be begging him for another hit? What about America's mammoth deficit and Moody's Investors Service warning (just last week) that it might put the US government's debt rating on a review for a downgrade? ...