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S&P downgrades US bank ratings

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... including Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America, by one notch. The ratings agency said it reviewed its ratings on 37 of the world's largest banks under new criteria announced earlier this month. S&P ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... YORK - US online sales rose 33 per cent on the Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, a report by a sales tracking agency says. DALLAS - American Airlines' parent company AMR has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, as the troubled firm ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... from 6.345 per cent at the close on Friday. Mr Ive said sentiment was further dented in Europe overnight after ratings agency Moody's warned France's credit rating could be affected by its rising government borrowing costs. No major Australian economic ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... 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, Italy ...

Europe push-US pull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... 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 in a timely and orderly manner, the broad credit ...

Italy's bond market collapse puts US back in favour

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... environment that's friendly for Treasuries," Suvrat Prakash, interest rate strategist at BNP Paribas in New York told the news agency. This week's bond market drama shows that while concerns still remain for the unfathomable size of the US economy's ...

Machines of loving grace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... re-investing. "The Committee is maintaining its existing policies of reinvesting principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in agency mortgage-backed securities and of rolling over maturing Treasury securities ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... added 103,000 jobs in September, which was better than markets forecasts. However, market sentiment soured after the Fitch agency downgraded its sovereign credit rating for Italy and Spain on Friday and said its long-term outlook for both countries was ...

Indigenous Australians offered chance to Clime career ladder

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... ten." AES' vision is 'a career opportunity for every indigenous Australian', it is a non-profit specialist recruitment agency that aims to deliver not just the benefit of placements to the trainees but also proper return on investment and a positive ...

All eyes on Germany

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2011
... doesn't want to lose that one extra 'A'. Not when -- according to German English newspaper, The Local - "The credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's warned Tuesday that Germany's top rating could be downgraded if Chancellor Angela Merkel's government ...