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Providence Bond Ratings in Question: Agencies to Meet With City - GoLocalProv

Providence Bond Ratings in Question: Agencies to Meet With City
GoLocalProv
Providence officials will soon meet with representatives from the three major credit rating agencies – Standard & Poor's (S&P), Moody's, and Fitch Group – to discuss the city's financial problems, city leaders confirmed Monday.

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An independent Scotland may not get triple A status, rating agencies warn - Daily Mail

Daily Mail

An independent Scotland may not get triple A status, rating agencies warn
Daily Mail
By Alan Roden Scottish independence could lead to deeper public service cuts amid fresh fears for the country's prized triple-A credit rating. Three leading rating agencies have failed to back SNP claims that Scotland would retain the gold-standard if ...
Doubt cast on any future Scottish sovereign ratingFinancial Times
Scottish independence: Government 'entirely confident' of top credit rating ...Scotsman
Independent vote may cost Scotland top credit ratingTelegraph.co.uk

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What Credit Ratings Don't Tell You - BullionVault

What Credit Ratings Don't Tell You
BullionVault
WE HAVE seen credit ratings agencies come under considerable fire for not being proactive enough in recognizing bad sovereign risks, writes David Howden for the Cobden Centre. Even if the ratings agencies were a little quicker with the downgrades, ...

China poised to launch junk-bond market: media - Reuters

China poised to launch junk-bond market: media
Reuters
"Rating agencies will gain, underwriters will gain, companies will gain, and investors may gain as well," said Yin. But Yin added the current situation, in which large, state-owned companies dominate debt issuance, will persist in the short term.

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Investors will not buy Irish bonds, says ex-NTMA chief - Irish Independent

Investors will not buy Irish bonds, says ex-NTMA chief
Irish Independent
Mr Somers said the country was likely to need a second bailout, because credit rating agencies had cut the Government's rating to a status that was too low to be able to sell bonds to international investors. Rating agencies 'rate' or classify ...

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