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It's good, it's bad, it's faked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014

Survivor: the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... back in 2004 to around 40.1% this year. This justifies its credit ratings upgrade to investment grade earlier this year by Fitch Ratings (27 March), Standard & Poor's (3 May) and Moody's (3 October)....Not the weather though. Like the devastation it ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
... disastrous default just hours ahead of a deadline. Sentiment was rattled early in Wednesday's session as ratings agency Fitch placed the US on warning for a downgrade from its top-level AAA assessment. But at close in Europe, Frankfurt's DAX 30 climbed ...

Breaking the bad in the eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... that, the country that started it all has just recently earned an upgrade on its credit rating - to B- from CCC -- from Fitch because of the "clear progress" Greece has made in rebalancing its economy, and reducing its fiscal and current account deficits. ...

Financial markets give the budget a big yawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
... not? Not with reports like Spain's 12-month borrowing costs hitting 3-year lows at last night's auction and...wait for it, Fitch upgrading (yes, upgrade) Greece's sovereign debt rating to B- from CCC. But back to the budget and financial markets. Australian ...

Losing triple A by trying to maintain AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013

Still the best game in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... that might be needed given latest reports showing weaker than expected retail spending, industrial production and lending. Fitch Ratings slashed Italy's government debt rating from A-minus to BBB-plus with a negative outlook. And only yesterday, Reuters ...

US credit rating threatened, buy US bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... Call anyone... except the credit rating agencies. That's who. You probably haven't noticed - or simply didn't care - but Fitch Ratings is about to do a Standard & Poor's. Fitch warned America that it's got its scissors out, ready to snip an A off Uncle ...

Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... rates could fall by as much or more than in 2008-09." May as well be the end of the world. That very day of the same month, Fitch Managing Director Edward Parker went on record saying that expects Greece to default soon because it would be unable to ...

The song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... five percent off an economy that's only growing at an annual rate of around 2.0% is a big chunk off growth. So much so that Fitch Ratings already warned that it may downgrade America's credit rating unless it's resolved in time. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. ...