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Asian banks still insulated from sub-prime

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2008
... caused chaos in developed world credit markets, the Asian banking system continues to weather the storm amazingly well. Moody's Investors Service said the ratings outlook for many banks is generally stable and for some it's actually positive. Nonetheless ...

Planners set to Ignite the Difference

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
... ethical decision making. Keynote speakers include founder of the Choir of Hard Knocks, Jonathan Welch, CSIRO executive, James Moody and psychologist turned business coach, Ed Jacobsen, covering both motivational and financial planning related subjects. ...

Macq bond insurance will diversify group

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
... the US bond insurance market - a move that is consistent with the company's international diversification strategy, says Moody's Investor Services. Eric Dinallo, New York's state insurance superintendent, told The New York Times he has been discussing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
... dipped after US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke expressed concerns about the prospect of rising long-term inflation and Moody's flagged downgrades for big bond insurers. The technology-laden Nasdaq rose on positive broker comments on chip makers ...

CalPERS calls for ratings overhaul

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... pension fund, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), has backed efforts to push rating houses Fitch, Moody's and Standard & Poor's to reform their methods for rating government-issued bonds. According to a statement released by CalPERS ...

Schroders expands fixed income team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
... analyse the Australian hybrid securities and corporate bond markets. Fullerton previously spent five years as lead analyst at Moody's Investor Services in the Australian, New Zealand and Asian based issuer diversified portfolio. Prior to this position ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... downgrade bond insurers AMBAC Financial Group Inc and MBIA Inc as early as today. A CNBC reporter said he believed that Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's Ratings Services may remove their triple-A rating on the two companies, which together ...

Not much of a fix from the freeze

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
... 60 days in arrears and be able to show they can continue to make repayments. Estimates attributed to Barclays Capital and Moody's (and reported by Reuters and the New York Times) put the number of households likely to benefit at around 250,000, between ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... calming fears of a recession. Even so, jitters about the credit crisis lingered. Indices trimmed gains after ratings agency Moody's Investors Service said mortgage insurer MBIA Inc was at greater risk of capital shortfall than previously communicated. ...

Jay-Z versus Greenspan

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
... spectacular downward spiral is far from over, despite almost two years of steadily plunging construction. Tracking the market, Moody's economist Mark Zandi expected the fall in house prices to accelerate from 5 per cent this year to 10 per cent in 2008. ...