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ASIC begins investigation into James Hardie

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2004
... to have broken the corporations law by engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct. "ASIC's investigations follow the agency's close monitoring of the special commission of inquiry and the release of the commission's report yesterday," said ASIC chairman ...

Fitch says downgrades QBE long term rating to A

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2004
Fitch Ratings, the international rating agency, has on Monday downgraded QBE Insurance Group\'s long-term rating to \'A\' from \'A+\'. At the same time, the agency has assigned its proposed GPB150 million senior unsecured sterling issue due 2009 an ...

Credit default swaps fuel global credit derivatives growth

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2004
... swaps have fuelled growth in the global credit derivatives market this year, a Fitch Ratings survey has shown. The ratings agency said the surveyed global credit derivative market had expanded 71% to $2.8 trillion of gross protection sold, as of year-end ...

Promina's first half shines, full-year to beat guidance

... the future direction and performance of our business." Supporting the upbeat assessment of Promina\'s results, ratings agency Standard & Poor\'s upgraded its long-term credit rating to A from A-.

Australia performs strongly in global sector survey; S&P

Global ratings agency Standard & Poor's today released the inaugural July edition of its Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), highlighting the comparative monthly returns of all performance returns of sector indices and companies in different ...

Active US fund managers underperform

... active US fund managers have underperformed the major US sharemarket indices for the six months-ending 30 June 2004, ratings agency and benchmark operator Standard & Poor's said in a report. According to S&P, the S&P-500 index outperformed 63.1% of large ...

S&P places Woolworths on watch negative after ALH stake

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2004
... Australia\'s biggest pubs operator, Australian Hospitality & Leisure Group (ALH), could put pressure on its credit rating. Rating agency Standard & Poor\'s (S&P) said on Tuesday it would reassess Woolworths\' ratings after Bruandwo, jointly owned by ...

Mercantile Mutual Insurance gets lowered ratings from S&P

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2004
Standard & Poor's has lowered its ratings on Mercantile Mutual Insurance (Australia). The ratings agency said it lowered its insurer financial strength and counterparty ratings on MMIA to A-plus from AA-minus and removed the ratings from CreditWatch ...

Fitch says housing downturn unlikely to hurt banks

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2004
A special report from international ratings agency Fitch Ratings has found Australian banks have sufficient safeguards in place to ensure that a downturn in the residential property market would not translate into material loan losses. The agency said ...

Fitch downgrades Telstra credit rating

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2004
Fitch Ratings today downgraded Telstra's long-term credit rating to A-plus from AA-minus, becoming the third ratings agency this week to drop Telstra a notch. Fitch said its outlook for Telstra has been revised to stable from negative. "The revised ...