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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2011
... year after the Brussels summit failed to deliver "decisive policy measures". World markets extended losses when Fitch Ratings predicted a "significant economic downturn" is on the horizon in Europe, despite the measures agreed to last week. "Yesterday's ...

Dream on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2011
... plan - yes it's now just the continent after Britain gave them the finger. And the verdict was fail, fail and fail. Fitch Ratings: "A 'comprehensive solution' to the current crisis is not on offer... Hopes that the ECB would step up its actions... appear ...

Half-filled empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... mood. It placed the subordinated debt of 87 EU banks on review for a possible 2-notch markdown. In the US, it was Fitch Ratings that was sounding the alarm. It revised its US outlook to negative due to "declining confidence" on Congress' ability to agree ...

Nothing new

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... treaties - before the 9 December summit (oh yes siree, you read right... another summit). Portugal is now junk in Fitch Ratings books. So what else is new? Speaking of downgrades, Standard & Poor's warned yesterday that it could be moving "closer to ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... per cent, or 143.43 points, to 18,817.47, while Shanghai closed 0.16 per cent, or 3.91 points, lower at 2,463.81 Fitch ratings agency warned that the contagion effects on US banks were "potentially large" if the crisis spreads beyond Greece, Ireland ...

Europe push-US pull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... resolve the debt crisis could have "significant adverse effects" on the global economy. News? This isn't news. News is Fitch Ratings latest bombshell - the credit ratings agency said that it "believes that unless the Eurozone debt crisis is resolved ...

Sounds like a plan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... credit rating from AA to AA minus. And while it was at it, it also cut BNP Paribas' credit rating to AA- from AA. Fitch Ratings was also on a roll. After snipping Spain and Italy's ratings, it went on a cutting spree - downgrading the ratings of UBS ...

The good, the bad and the whatever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... in August. That's the good news. Now for the bad. Credit ratings agencies are playing Edward Scissorhands anew. Fitch Ratings snipped Italy and Spain's credit ratings. Moody's cut the ratings of 12 UK banks citing the removal or lessening of government ...

Moody's does an S&P

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... last May. Two, the recent downgrade only puts Moody's rating back in line with its rivals - Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings - that cut their Japan credit-ratings long before. Three, the bulk of Japanese government debt is funded internally (93% according ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... expected industrial and housing data from the US, which boosted the risk-sensitive Australian dollar. Also overnight, Fitch Ratings said it would maintain its rating on US debt at the highest grade, AAA, and issued a "stable" outlook, meaning it expects ...