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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 ...

Poor standard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
Hey, what just happened? Isn't the US at risk losing its AAA credit rating... or not? It's only been two days since Standard & Poor's issued that grim warning and now, look ma, Wall Street's back and with a vengeance. Please pardon my gloating but I ...

Australia better than triple A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... tril. Japanese bonds perhaps? Perhaps not. Forget about Japan's lost decades. Japan is lost period. If America's AAA credit rating will "absolutely not" be downgraded despite being trillions of dollars in the red, what does this make of Australia's rating? ...

Debt load

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
Just when we thought Dubai's Desert Storm was just a one-off, we're now confronted with the shock and awe at more warnings over sovereign credit ratings. Remember the one? Towards the close of November Dubai World dropped a bombshell by announcing that ...

No two ways about it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... recovery in their soups last night after Standard & Poor's warned that it might downgrade the United Kingdom's AAA credit rating because of its widening budget deficit and ballooning national debt. The fear is that the United States could meet with the ...

NZ investors hooked on high yield

... from ratings agencies such as Moody's or Standard & Poor's. "A common misconception is that most banks have a AAA credit rating", said Inch. On the contrary, not many meet the top standards. "The fact is that in Australia, only Rabobank Australia Ltd ...
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