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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... the borrowing rate on French debt bonds and possibly slowing growth could meanwhile have a negative effect on France's top AAA credit rating but not immediately, Moody's warned on Monday. Nevertheless France successfully placed seven billion euros ($A9.5 ...

Prettiest of them all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... Global growth concerns remained in the September quarter as the world worried over the first downgrade in 70 years of America's AAA credit rating and the European sovereign debt crisis and their plan. Now in the final quarter of the year 2011, global ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... France, where banks are being weakened by their own eurozone exposure, while Paris is cutting spending to avoid losing its AAA credit rating. Fitch said the top five US banks had $US188 billion ($A186.76 billion) in exposure to France at the end of the ...

Italy's bond market collapse puts US back in favour

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... downgrade of US debt. Ironically, it's being reported that the ratings agency is again considering another downgrade, from AAA to AA+, following concerns over the political impasse in Washington. Events in Europe suggest, however, foreign investors will ...

SelectingSuper celebrates super powers

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... Year. The SelectingSuper Award recipients are chosen from the best super funds in Australia which have already earned the AAA SelectingSuper quality assessment rating. SelectingSuper Award winners: Industry Service Award - Howard Rosario Innovation Award ...

The good, the bad and the whatever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... assets." Yes, them the bad news. The ones who not so long ago gave toxic CDO's and structure investment products a glowing, shiny AAA. Now they're overcompensating for their misjudgements. But just as their buy recommends became self-perpetuating until ...

Moody's does an S&P

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... Moody's got itchy fingers again that is. Less than three weeks after Standard and Poor's downgrade of the US' credit-rating from AAA to AA+ on 5 August, Moody's Investors Service slashed Japan's sovereign credit rating to Aa3 from Aa2 - three notches ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... risk-sensitive Australian dollar. Also overnight, Fitch Ratings said it would maintain its rating on US debt at the highest grade, AAA, and issued a "stable" outlook, meaning it expects the rating to stay there, another positive for sentiment. In economic ...

In a better place

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... much has really changed from when financial markets moved from volatile to extremely volatile. Yes, we saw the USA no longer AAA for the first time in 70 years. But at the same time, we also saw investors pouring funds into US Treasuries - yep those ...

Lost GPS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... haven't yet been plotted on any GPS. Only a few of us who are still living now have witnessed the last time the USA was not AAA - 70 years ago. And it was different back then. Facebook and Twitter weren't around to broadcast in real time to the whole ...