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Food is the new Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
... borrowing costs and austerity measures.... and contagion. Moody's lowered Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg's Aaa credit rating outlooks to negative due to "rising uncertainty" over the debt crisis. Yes, the song remains the same. But thanks or ...

Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... crisis, the Arab Spring (and surging oil prices), the Japanese tsunami/nuclear reactor meltdown, the US losing its AAA credit rating, North Korea, Iran, etc. - at 1334.8 points, the S&P 500 index remains nearly double what it was three years ago. Is ...

Priced in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... Standard & Poor's was at it - slashing - again last night. After lopping off one A out of France's and Austria's AAA credit rating at the end of last week, it did the same for the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF). According to S&P: "We consider ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... investors cheered news that international ratings agency Standard & Poor's had maintained Germany's hard-won AAA credit rating. Milan was up by 1.4 per cent and Madrid was essentially unchanged. In foreign exchange trades, the euro was unchanged at $US1.2677. ...

Chinalising Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... ask me. Ratings downgrade speculation. The latest one being that Standard & Poor's is about to slash France's AAA credit rating. Although it did not happen overnight, statements by French authorities and the ECB before "the fact" suggests it could (will?) ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... 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 billion) ...

Prettiest of them all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... 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 growth concerns ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... 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 second quarter. ...

Credit hits the fan as Moody's puts US on downgrade watch

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... over the issue, walking out of yesterday's deficit meeting at the White House. Overnight, Moody's placed the AAA credit rating of the US on a review for possible downgrade, raising the possibility it may actually cut its rating within the next 12 to ...

Knights in shining armour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... Last night, the credit-rater warned that it's put the US under review and could remove one A from America's AAA credit rating as negotiations over raising its US$14.3 trillion borrowing limit continue to stall. Bond markets paid no heed - the same way ...