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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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
... a strong opening to the day on Wall Street and after Asian markets lost ground. European stocks surged despite news that Moody's had downgraded Portugal's sovereign debt rating, sparking fresh concerns about the eurozone. Traders also took in their stride ...

Down on old news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
What really was Moody's intention in announcing that it may downgrade Spain's credit rating last night? Is it Moody's way of proving that it still matters? That it could still move markets? According to Bloomberg, "US stocks fell, extending the first ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
... early losses on a new ratings downgrade for Greece as investors took their lead from new takeover activity. Dealers said the Moody's Greek downgrade to junk status was eye-catching but did no more than confirm what many believed to be the case anyway ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... problems was enough to help take down the market's advance. Traders at first shrugged off news that credit rating agency Moody's lowered its rating on Greece's debt to "junk" status. But in the final hour, many traders apparently decided the safest move ...

Moody's cries boo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... long, long time ago. Greece is junk! But no! No! Bloomberg reports that the Dow erased its triple-digit gains overnight when Moody's cried boo. OMG! If we're dealing with a market that reacts this way, then it really has no business taking our money. ...

Global Sovereign Crisis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... last week that, "It's not a question of the danger of contagion; contagion has already happened." And now... here comes Moody's with its own doom and gloom message. It warned that it might downgrade Portugal's Aa2 debt rating in the next three months. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... not enough to calm concerns about the eurozone that were exacerbated by the Greek riots and a warning from ratings agency Moody's that it could downgrade Portugal's sovereign debt within three months. Moody's said it had placed Portugal Aa2 government ...