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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2011
... of next 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
... latest 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... ...

PIGS!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... harder to fund deficit and debt, country A downgraded. S&P was right! The same it was spot on when it - and Moody's and Fitch - gave junk CDO's and other structured securities glowing AAAs back in the days. The result was the same, they were correct ...

Half-filled empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... warning 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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... considered ultimately unsustainable. In another fresh sign that all was not well among the eurozone's peripheral nations, Fitch cut its rating on bailed-out Portugal to junk-bond status at BB+, blaming its high level of debt and weak economic outlook. ...

Nothing new

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... to EU 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 ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... fell 0.76 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 ...

Europe push-US pull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... to 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 ...

Derivatives broker MF Global in administration

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
... investing $6 billion in sovereign bonds issued by European countries. MF Global's credit rating was downgraded by Moody's and Fitch to junk after the losses were reported. As of last week, MF Global had a net exposure of $US6.29 billion in debt issued ...

Sounds like a plan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... there's no mistaking the pressure placed by the snips, cuts and chops from credit ratings agencies. Standard & Poor's did a Fitch last week, cutting Spain's long-term debt credit rating from AA to AA minus. And while it was at it, it also cut BNP Paribas' ...