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No Surprise: Cyprus Debt Ratings Under Review

Posted: March 26, 2013 at 2:11 pm

Fitch Ratings has put Cyprus’s long-term foreign debt on a ratings watch with a possible negative outcome. The ratings agency has also capped its ratings on the ratings of all ...
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Fitch Takes Off the Rose-coloured Glasses for a New Look at U.K.

Posted: March 22, 2013 at 1:46 pm

Apparently the U.K.’s Chancellor of the Exchequer failed to impress the analysts at Fitch Ratings. The ratings firm said this afternoon that it is putting the country’s ‘AAA’ rating on ...
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Fitch Downgrades Italy: Tourism, Shoes & Purses Not Enough

Posted: March 8, 2013 at 12:41 pm

Fitch Ratings this morning cut its rating on Italian debt one notch from ‘A-’ to ‘BBB+’ with a negative outlook. And the ratings firm gave a long list of reasons ...
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Debt Ceiling Deal Removes Risk — Fitch

Posted: January 28, 2013 at 8:39 am

The recent agreement on the U.S. debt ceiling has removed the near-term risk to the United States’ AAA sovereign debt rating, according to Fitch Ratings. The agency said, “Without the ...
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Another Obstacle to Rental Bonds

Posted: January 18, 2013 at 12:26 pm

One of the big ideas floating around for the past year or so is the securitization of single-family rental payments into securities that could then sold to investors. If this ...
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Delay in Raising Debt Ceiling Would Lead to Rating Review — Fitch

Posted: January 15, 2013 at 8:51 am

Calling into question the intention of the United States to pay its debts would lead to a formal review of U.S. sovereign debt ratings, according to Fitch Ratings. The ratings ...
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Fitch Says U.S. Debt Downgrade Possible

Posted: December 19, 2012 at 11:55 am

In its latest review of sovereign debt, Fitch Ratings warns that continuing weakness in the developed economies and the threat that the U.S. will tumble over the fiscal cliff are ...
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U.S. Transportation Infrastructure Threatened by Fiscal Cliff

Posted: December 17, 2012 at 10:49 am

Ratings and research firm Fitch Ratings reckons that if U.S. policy makers should fail to reach an agreement and the country should plunge over the fiscal cliff, U.S. GDP growth ...
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Corporate Bonds: The Good and The Bad

Posted: November 16, 2012 at 12:35 pm

In the third calendar quarter of 2012, the share of corporate bonds that were downgraded totaled 1.3% of issuances, flat with the share downgraded in the second quarter. The share ...
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High-Yield Bond Issues Soar in September — Fitch Ratings

Posted: October 23, 2012 at 10:33 am

The third round of Fed quantitative easing is pumping up the issuance of CCC-rated debt, according to the latest report from Fitch Ratings. Of total bonds issued in September, 26% ...
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Fitch Also Down on Europe

Posted: October 19, 2012 at 12:15 pm

We noted earlier today that Moody’s Investors Service had some cautionary words on Germany’s banking system. Fitch Ratings has similar, if more general concerns. Following yesterday’s summit meeting of European ...
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Risk of Fiscal Cliff “Lessened” – Fitch Ratings

Posted: October 15, 2012 at 2:02 pm

Analysts at Fitch Ratings have released their latest “Risk Radar” report today with a mixed message on the impact of the looming U.S. fiscal cliff. While the agency says “the ...
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Home Sales Forecasts Raised at Fitch Rating

Posted: October 15, 2012 at 12:07 pm

The housing market recovery has been one of the U.S. economy’s brighter stories this year. Now, Fitch Ratings says that the recovery is even better than we thought. In its ...
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Fitch Maintains Spain Ratings

Posted: October 1, 2012 at 1:25 pm

Fitch Ratings left is ‘BBB’ rating on Spanish debt unchanged following last week’s proposed 2013 government budget. The ratings agency also maintained its ‘negative’ outlook on the country. Here’s part ...
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U.K. Still AAA at Fitch

Posted: September 28, 2012 at 4:10 pm

Fitch Ratings today affirmed its AAA ratings on the U.K.’s foreign currency issuer default rating, local currency issuer default rating, and country ceiling. The currency ratings outlooks were maintained as ...
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