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Can't fix what's not broken, yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
... If he was unwavering last week, he would be more determined to push it through now, after credit rating agencies S&P and Fitch warned that Australia could lose its AAA-rating if he doesn't deliver. Boyoboyoboy, this certainly couldn't happen to Australia ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012
... 3,580.21 points. In London, the benchmark FTSE 100 index bucked the trend and slipped 0.08 per cent to 5,940.72 points after Fitch lowered Britain's long-term outlook to negative from stable, while confirming its top-level AAA rating. Elsewhere, Zurich ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... on Tuesday at 1025 AEDT, Macquarie Group was six cents higher at $26.31 despite having two credit ratings downgraded by Fitch as part of the agency's review of the world's largest financial institutions. Kids toy supplier Funtastic was untraded at 15 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... about the underlying sums and with Greece's economy seen as too weak to meet the targets set. International ratings agency Fitch said it now considered a Greek debt default was "highly likely in the near term" as it cut the country's rock-bottom CCC ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... economy minister has warned against euphoria in the wake of Greece's approval of important austerity measures. MADRID - Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor's have lowered their credit rating of Spanish banks, including the country's four largest lenders ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... Herring said. "This could be a reasonable opportunity to buy in." Financial stocks were weaker after news that ratings agency Fitch has put Australia's big four banks on a credit downgrade watch because of their reliance on shaky global debt markets. ...

Get up and go on board

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
... one. Developed and developing country growth rates could fall by as much or more than in 2008-09." And also last night, Fitch declared that Greece is insolvent and expects the country to default soon, very, very soon. However, looking at the past few ...

Instos set sights on Indonesian assets

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... income. The Indonesian economy grew by 6.5% in the third quarter of last year, and the country was upgraded by ratings agency Fitch to triple B minus status before Christmas. However, Mandiri Investasi said that more needs to be done to properly communicate ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... downgrades to European banks and fears that France may soon follow sent offshore bourses tumbling overnight. Ratings agency Fitch has downgraded major banks Credit Agricole and Rabobank on the back of escalating problems in Europe. Others, including ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011
... rose 69 points, or 0.6 percent to 12,090 as of noon (1700 GMT). The Dow sank 162 points the day before after Moody's and Fitch said the fiscal agreement reached last week among European leaders fell far short of what was needed to contain that region's ...