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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
... the Memorial Day holiday. A weak report on consumer spending and income added to the bearish sentiment. News that Fitch Ratings downgraded the sovereign debt of Spain to AA+ from its top AAA rating accelerated stock selling in mid-session. Fitch said ...

PGI appoints CEO for Asia

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
Principal Global Investors has appointed former Fitch Ratings chief, Andrea Muller, as managing director for Asia-ex Japan and chief executive of PGI East Asia. Effective March 30, 2010, she will be responsible for activities in the region including ...

New credit ratings agency in town

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
... License to provide credit ratings. The company joins the ranks of Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings, as CRAs licensed by ASIC. CSC general manager ratings services Brad Walters said the firm's business offer is based upon ...

Fitch scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
... have yet to revisit the decade high of 7.06 per cent reached in January this year. And the Fitch comes along... Fitch Ratings lowered Portugal's rating to AA- with a negative outlook. The reason: "A sizeable fiscal shock against a backdrop of relative ...

Debt load

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
... financial institutions falling one after the other - under the weight of debt. It was Greece's turn last night. Fitch Ratings downgraded its debt rating to BBB+ with a negative outlook. According to reports, this is the first time in 10 years that a ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2009
... Search added 10 cents to $6.50 and Santos gained six cents to $15.60. Telstra shares were up four cents to $3.28 as Fitch Ratings said the proposed federal government changes to the telecoms industry will have no immediate impact on Telstra's ratings ...

ASIC reviews prospectus disclosure of CRAs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
... appears. The relief permits issuers to cite credit ratings from Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investor Service and Fitch Ratings in a prospectus or PDS without the consent of credit rating agencies themselves. The ability to cite ratings this way is seen ...

RBNZ could go zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... has called into question the country's ability to repay this deficit. This doubt became manifest last Friday when Fitch Ratings revised NZ's credit outlook rating from stable to negative. The international credit rating agency took this decision because ...

Local funds won't follow CalPERS lawsuit

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... court in relation to $1 billion in losses that it claimed were a result of inaccurate credit ratings from Moody's, Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor's, according to a report by Reuters. CalPERS said the "top" ratings on highly structured investment vehicles ...

Challenger goes public

THE SHEET  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... to its September 2017 kauri issue in early August. This latest top-up takes outstandings to NZ$875 million. Both Fitch Ratings and S&P issued bulletins on Origin Energy. S&P affirmed the 'BBB+/A-2' ratings assigned to Origin but moved the rating outlook ...