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Failure is not an option

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... the deficit would give the RBI some wiggle room to cut interest rates and at the same time fend off Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings threat to downgrade India's credit rating to below investment grade. Just as failure is not an option for the Fed ...

They will or they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... not worse, way of reducing the deficit." But enough said about Moody's and Standard & Poor's (hey, has anybody heard from Fitch yet?) and their ratings and forecasts. Goldman Sachs has a better chance of getting its forecast - or at least, one of its ...

It's more fun in the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... upgraded. Only last week, Standard & Poor's raised Manila's credit rating to BB+ -- one step below investment grade - matching Fitch Ratings' upgrade delivered in June last year. Moody's, which still has the Philippines two notches below investment grade ...

Three more days of guessing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
... as well be considered as the cost of the rope Spain was given to hang itself with. For last night, Moody's outdid S&P and Fitch and chopped three notches off Spain's sovereign debt rating to Baa3 - one step above junk - from A3 and warned of the possibility ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
... Spain's banking system and as Greece prepares for another election. Adding downward pressure to sentiment was a decision by Fitch to downgrade 18 Spanish banks while the euro was steady against the US dollar and yen. Tokyo closed up 0.60 per cent, or ...

QE hope - must be getting tough again?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
... highest in the eurozone's history - before settling at a still high 6.4%. Can't blame Spanish bond investors, not after Fitch Ratings went on a chopping spree once more. Fitch downgraded another 18 Spanish banks last night. I doubt that this is still ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... per cent, to 1,314.99. The tech-laden Nasdaq Composite lost 13.70 points, or 0.48 per cent, to 2,831.02. In Europe, agency Fitch Ratings cut Spain's credit rating by three notches to just above junk bond status. In local trading, gold major Newcrest ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
... or 116.83 points, to 19,039.15 and Shanghai added 1.07 per cent, or 25.01 points, to 2,373.31. After the markets closed, Fitch cut Japan's credit rating by two notches, citing the country's public debt as Tokyo struggles to set the world's third-largest ...

Bulls run

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... faith in them. Fooled us once. Shame, shame, shame on them. Now the shame's on us for they've fooled us again. On 13 March, Fitch upgraded Greece's credit ratings out of "restrictive default" to a speculative B- rating with a "stable outlook". If you ...

Mexican standoff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012