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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? ...

Convince me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
... look out below. But you won't land with a thud, don't forget that Ben would be there to cushion your fall. And then there's Moody's. It appears to be on a roll since last month - downgrading here, warning there. Moody's downgraded Greece's debt rating ...

Aussie downgrades likely as S&P reviews rating system

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... industry. Fixed interest professionals expect that when the new methods are implemented in the fourth quarter, S&P will follow Moody's Investors Services with a downgrade of Australia's Big Four banks. Vivek Prabhu, portfolio manager and credit analyst ...

NZ bank credit ratings cut, outlook stable

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
New Zealand's major banks had their credit ratings cut by Moody's Investors Services on Friday as the rating's agency followed through on an earlier downgrade of their Australian parent institutions. ANZ National Bank, ASB Bank (subsidiary of Australia's ...

It's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... that if Greek defaults, Ireland and Portugal and Spain and Italy are in the hock. And soon it'll be the entire Eurozone. Moody's is the torchbearer on this one - warning of downgrades everywhere. But if you're going to believe one credit rating agency ...