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Bunga bunga

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... previous year. Indonesia received an upgrade in its sovereign credit rating to one below investment grade from Fitch and Moody's for its efforts. And it's not only in America and Europe and Asia. The Egyptian turmoil appears to have eased and this is ...

When good is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
... policy more, will increase risk of policy mistake, will cause a hard landing... in China and then the world. Bad is good. Moody's cut Greece's sovereign credit rating to junk. There's political uncertainty, nay unrest is a better word, in Ireland. The ...

Growth spoiler

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
... from these sectors goodbye at least over the next couple of quarters. Financial. According to a freshly released report by Moody's Investor Services, earnings of Australia's largest banks would be hit by debt defaults and missed mortgage repayments flowing ...

Fear and thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... flourished during the boom days when no one cared how money is made as long as money is being made? And oh yes, there was Moody's Investor Services - yes, the ratings agency - back in the headlines again. In its weekly credit outlook, it concluded that ...

QE2 overstays welcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... rating downgrade only formalised what many silently fear despite the top grade given by New York -based Standard & Poor's and Moody's. Yes, the same ones who gave excellent credit ratings to CDOs and other structured products that turned out to be worthless ...

Lazard Carnegie Wylie offloads local Dun & Bradstreet

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
... and senior management of D&B ANZ will be retained. The deal is the largest acquisition undertaken by the company since the Moody's Rating Services deal in 2000. D&B ANZ has recorded a revenue growth of 130 per cent over the last ten years, mainly from ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
... $24.22. Ms Saly said the mining giants were weighing on the market. Investors were digesting news late on Wednesday that Moody's was reviewing BHP Billiton's credit rating in light of its takeover offer for Canada's PotashCorp. "Analysts are questioning ...

Half-filled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2010
... buyers for their debt issuances. Greece yields rose but Spain and Ireland's fell. It seems nobody's paying attention to Moody's anymore. This is the same Ireland whose credit rating Moody's cut one notch to Aa2 only yesterday. Overall the macroeconomic ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... we were sleeping are stuff big drops are made of...yet Wall Street chose to ignore them. A case of been there, done that. Moody's at it again. The credit rating agency downgraded Ireland one notch to Aa2 because of "significant loss of financial strength" ...

Looking good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
... selling? For sure, there were lingering nasty reports that were out last night. But they were ignored or spun positively. Moody's downgraded Portugal by two notches to A1 from Aa2 because the country's financial strength will "continue to weaken over ...