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# moodys - Saturday 23 February, 2013
Rating agency downgrades Britain’s credit rating for first time in 35 years
Moody’s have downgraded the UK from AAA to AA1.
The 9 at 9: Saturday
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# moodys - Friday 8 February, 2013
Businesses and financial institutions hail promissory notes deal
Danske Bank Markets said it now expects rating agencies to upgrade Ireland’s status while businesses say the deal will improve consumer confidence.
# moodys - Saturday 1 December, 2012
Eurozone’s new bailout fund loses AAA credit rating
The European Stability Mechanism has been downgraded by Moody’s, following a similar drop for France.
# moodys - Monday 8 October, 2012
Moody’s give new ESM an AAA rating – but outlook is negative
Moody’s said that a ‘weakening in the political commitment’ among eurozone states towards the ESM would have negative implications.
# moodys - Friday 28 September, 2012
Spain set to release stress test results
The results will follow yesterday’s budget announcement of over €30 billion in cuts.
# moodys - Thursday 20 September, 2012
One in 5 mortgages will default by 2013
County by county survey shows that there are still “substantial losses to be realised on irish residential mortgage loans”.
# moodys - Tuesday 24 July, 2012
Moody’s issues negative outlook warning for Germany
Ratings agency also revised stable outlooks for the Netherlands and Luxembourg to ‘negative’.
# moodys - Friday 13 July, 2012
Moody’s downgrades Italy by two notches
The credit rating agency has downgraded the third largest eurozone economy just hours ahead of its latest bond sale.
# moodys - Tuesday 26 June, 2012
Moody’s downgrades 28 Spanish banks over debt concerns
Banks downgraded last night include one of the eurozone’s biggest – Banco Santander.
# moodys - Friday 22 June, 2012
Moody’s downgrades 15 major banks
Moody’s said the mass downgrade reflected the banks’ ability repay their debts.
# moodys - Saturday 16 June, 2012
Moody’s says house prices to fall by a further 20 per cent
The ratings agency also says that the Irish economy will only grow by 0.2 per cent in 2012.
# moodys - Thursday 14 June, 2012
The 5 at 5: Thursday
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Moody’s drives Cyprus towards junk status with two-notch downgrade
The credit ratings agency has said that it has placed Cyprus’ rating on review for further possible downgrade.
# moodys - Wednesday 13 June, 2012
Downgraded: Moody’s slashes Spain’s credit rating
The downgrade comes on foot of an agreement reached at the weekend to bailout Spain’s troubled banking system.
# moodys - Wednesday 6 June, 2012
Moody’s downgrades six German and three Austrian banks
Moody’s says six major banks, including the country’s second-biggest Commerzbank, are at risk of eurozone turmoil.
# moodys - Friday 18 May, 2012
Moody’s in mass downgrade of 16 Spanish banks
The ratings agency raised fears over the “creditworthiness” of the country and its ability to support its banks.
# moodys - Tuesday 15 May, 2012
Moody’s cuts ratings of 26 Italian banks
The banks include the country’s two largest banks, with one third of the market – while 10 banks are now ‘junk’.
# moodys - Tuesday 24 April, 2012
Dutch caretaker PM urges ‘responsibility’ over economic problems
Despite the fall of the country’s government over budget disagreements yesterday, the Netherlands raised €2 billion at a bond auction today.
# moodys - Friday 6 April, 2012
After the global financial crisis, why are rating agencies still trusted?
Credit rating agencies were widely criticised in the aftermath of the financial crisis in 2008 but they continue to hold huge sway when it comes to sovereign ratings. Now the EU is looking to curb that influence. TheJournal.ie investigates…
# moodys - Thursday 15 March, 2012
Fitch downgrades UK outlook to negative
The nation has held onto its AAA rating but has been warned it could lose its top rating if cut-backs are eased.
# moodys - Monday 5 March, 2012
Moody’s expects Ireland to require partial second bailout
The only ratings agency to rank Ireland at ‘junk’ status says Ireland will have difficulty getting back to the markets.
# moodys - Monday 27 February, 2012
Moody’s backs ‘credit positive’ sale of state assets
In its weekly credit outlook, Moody’s welcomes the plans to sell state assets – but that our position remains “challenging”.
# moodys - Tuesday 14 February, 2012
Interest rates plunge as Italy raises €6 billion in new auction
What downgrade? Italy flogs billions in 12-year bonds with interest rates falling dramatically on a similar bond last month.
Moody’s downgrades six European countries – and warns of more to come
France and the UK were both warned that they could lose their coveted AAA credit rating.
# moodys - Monday 16 January, 2012
Safe: Moody’s says it will maintain France’s AAA rating
It follows Standard & Poor’s downgrade of France and others on Friday.
# moodys - Thursday 29 December, 2011
Recessions, downgrades and Super Mario – 2011: the year in money
2011 may be remembered in future as the year we sorted out the financial crisis – or the year in which it grew beyond our control.
# moodys - Thursday 22 December, 2011
The 5 at 5: Thursday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
1 in 10 Irish mortgages are in arrears
At the same time, one-fifth of all mortgage holders are believed to be having difficulties in meeting mortgage repayments.
# moodys - Friday 16 December, 2011
Moody’s downgrades Belgium’s debt by 2 notches
Moody’s already rates Ireland’s bonds as junk – but now says that that outlook for Belgium is “negative”.
# moodys - Tuesday 13 December, 2011
Ireland’s economic growth forecast to hit just 1 per cent next year
Moody’s says that the fragility of the state’s economic recovery coupled with recent eurozone pressures mean growth won’t hit the govt target for 2012.
The 9 at 9: Tuesday
Nine things you should know this morning…
# moodys - Monday 12 December, 2011
Second ratings agency set to downgrade EU member states
Moody’s follows the lead of Standard & Poor’s, complaining about “the absence of measures to stabilise credit markets”.
The 9 at 9: Monday
Nine things you should know by 9am…
# moodys - Friday 9 December, 2011
Three top French banks downgraded by Moody’s
The ratings agency says the ongoing euro crisis means the eurozone is a “fragile operating environment for European banks” at the moment.
# moodys - Monday 28 November, 2011
‘The situation in the euro area is rapidly deteriorating,’ says OECD
Fresh warnings over health of the eurozone as the OECD and Moody’s voice concerns over continuing spread of debt contagion.
The 9 at 9: Monday
Nine things to know by 9am: More details on Budget 2012 pain, Archbishop denies media “anti-Catholic bias”, good news from BoI, and the end of Janet’s X Factor odyssey
Credit ratings of ALL European nations under threat, warns Moody’s
The ratings agency said “multiple defaults” are now a possibility, and that more than one country could be forced to leave the euro.
# moodys - Wednesday 19 October, 2011
Moody’s downgrades Spain’s credit rating
European leaders are feeling the pressure today as Spain becomes the latest country to experience a credit rating downgrade.
# moodys - Tuesday 18 October, 2011
Moody’s warns on France’s credit rating
The agency says it may put France’s Aaa rating on negative outlook in the coming months over a weakening in the government’s financial position.
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