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Treasurer ignored credit warnings: Bowen

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... Treasurer Chris Bowen said Treasurer Scott Morrison ignored his warnings that Australia was in danger of losing its AAA credit rating. At the 2016 FSC Leaders Summit in Melbourne, Bowen said that the Coalition has repeatedly ignored warnings from S&P ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2016
... at 30 June 2015, which was down from 67% at 30 June 2013. Should speculation continue regarding Australia's AAA credit rating, this global appetite for Australian issued CGSs could come under even more pressure and so reduce the overseas holding ratio ...

S&P outlook downgrade extends to banks

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
... Putting the rating on negative watch means there is now a one-in-three chance S&P could downgrade Australia's AAA credit rating over the next two years if fiscal consolidation is not improved, current account deficient remains elevated or if terms of ...

Fixed income investors turning to Serbia

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
... along core stable, defensive and return-seeking lines. As a "core stable" example, he cited Sweden, which has an AAA credit rating, low inflation and 0.15% average yield in the covered bonds market. A good defensive option was buying protection in Lloyds ...

You sexy thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... October last year and a 35.7% surged three months before Standard & Poor's took away one-A from the US of A's AAA credit rating in August 2011. Yes Virginia, the US dollar has come a long way since, baby. "Everybody wants her, everybody loves her" -- ...

Tme to get fiscal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... emergency and debt worries, Australia still has one of the lowest in the world on both - we haven't maintained our AAA credit rating for nothing, you know. And now's the time to borrow when money's cheap as chips - at current bond yields, Australia can ...

WA govt plans string of infra asset sales

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2013
... reliable revenue stream and fair return from investments." Nahan's comments come after the WA government lost its AAA credit rating in September.

Off the cliff and into the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... August of that year due to the impasse on the budget ceiling and Standard & Poor's took away one A from America's AAA credit rating. This time it's complicated by the Republicans wanting to tie spending cuts - they've already compromised on Obama's tax ...

Political punch trading greatest risk to US economy

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... blocked the route to raising the debt ceiling. As a result, ratings agency Standard & Poor's cut the US's coveted AAA credit rating. With the election thought to be one of closest contests since George W Bush beat Al Gore in 2000, many political commentators ...

Poisoned chalice awaits next US president

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... domestically and overseas - appears to be exaggerating the impact of the race." Standard & Poor's downgrade of the US's AAA credit rating sparked a global stock market sell-off in August 2011. Another danger is that the announcement of further quantitative ...