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Portugal Downgrade? Rolling Debt Problems Across Europe

Posted: December 21, 2010 at 4:43 am

Sovereign debt downgrades are usually a self-fulfilling prophecy. Moody's or another agency threatens a downgrade or actually makes one. This causes the country which faces the action to explain to ...
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Moody’s: A Very Late Downgrade Of Ireland

Posted: July 19, 2010 at 5:41 am

Moody's downgraded Ireland's government bond ratings by one notch to Aa2 from Aa1. The credit research firm said: "The government's gradual but significant loss of financial strength, as reflected by ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Report 7.13.2010 The Wisdom Of Crowds

Posted: July 13, 2010 at 8:30 am

Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have ...
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Media Digest 7/13/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 13, 2010 at 3:53 am

MarketWatch:   Moody's downgraded Portugal two notches to A1 Reuters:   BP plc (NYSE: BP) will test a new oil cap in place. Reuters:   The Wall St. reform bill is nearing a ...
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Moody’s May Downgrade Spain’s Aaa Rating, Contagion Rules

Posted: June 30, 2010 at 6:41 pm

There is another reason for the embattled euro to sell off. Moody's says it may downgrade Spain's debt which currently has an Aaa rating. The agency said, "Moody's decision to ...
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Moody’s Could Still Cut Greece To “Junk”

Posted: May 10, 2010 at 3:07 pm

The $1 trillon EU bailout package has not fooled the keen analysts at Moody's--the same organization that helped bring the world the mortgage-securities catastrophe. The ratings agency clearly thinks that ...
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Contagion Brush Fire

Posted: May 6, 2010 at 11:31 am

“Each of the six banking systems Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Greece, the UK... faces different challenges, but the contagion risk could dilute these differences and impose very real, common threats ...
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Moody’s To US: Aaa Rating A Privilege, Not A Right

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 5:11 am

It cannot be good news that the warnings from credit agencies about the US debt and deficit come almost monthly now. Moody's, in its latest quarterly AAA Sovereign Monitor, examined ...
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Moody’s Signals It Should Cut Ambac, But Isn’t Cutting It (ABK)

Posted: February 29, 2008 at 1:02 pm

Moody's is affirming the current ratings and capital ratios at Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABK), although there is not a downgrade being issued.  Moody's has noted that Ambac's capital ...
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Can Barron’s Save MBIA From Ambac’s Fate? (MBI, ABK)

Posted: January 21, 2008 at 9:28 am

There was an interesting article in this weekend's edition of Barron's.  The financial weekly bible is noting that, despite the turmoil and perhaps terminal verdict of bond insurers, there may ...
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US Investment Bank Ratings OK, Or So Says Moody’s (MCO, MHP, XLF, GS, MS, MER, LEH, BSC, C, BAC, JPM, WFC, WB)

Posted: August 29, 2007 at 11:57 am

Stocks Tickers: MCO, MHP, XLF, GS, MS, MER, LEH, BSC, C, BAC, JPM, WFC, WBYou will have to have a subscription in order to access the full article, but Moody's ...
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