E.U. Official Vents Frustration Over Ratings Agencies The criticism came as Moody’s put Portugal on review for another possible downgrade that could make it more difficult for the country to service its debt. 批判は、ムーディーズは、より困難な国を債務返済になる可能性が別の格下げの可能性についてのレビューをポルトガルを入れてきた
The City has been surprisingly well-behaved | Will Hutton Don't blame the financial markets. The people have spoken, not the bond marketThere will be scapegoats aplenty over the months ahead about why the attempted Lib-Lab coalition failed at the first, but one cannot be the financial markets. If the stock market fell some 15% over the last fortnight it was not a conspiracy to frighten voters into voting Conservative or Nick Clegg to strike a coalition government deal with David Cameron. It was because there was a real and growing risk that the euro might break up.In the event the $750bn package agreed over the weekend has bought the euro some relief - and if the stock market fell today by 1% it had jumped 5% on Monday in relief at the scale of the package. The interesting feature of the last three months has not been the pound's and gilt markets' weakness - but their relative strength. Given the power of the rating agencies and the stage army of largely conservative inclined City economic analysts what has been surprising is how little rather than how much sabre-rattling about mountainous deficits and debt downgrades there has been – despite an avalanche of reporters hunting for the killer quote. That during the campaign and now over five days of negotiations only a team from BNP Paribas has - rather sillily - talked about a downgrade of UK debt is remarkable. The City has been surprisingly well-behaved.There are two reasons. Firstly, for two or three months the news on the deficit has all been good; the deficit in 2009/10 net of buying the bank stakes is some £155bn, well short of the scary £200bn numbers bandied about before Christmas. The recovery is strengthening. Fixing the deficit will be unpleasant, but in the UK the party or parties with a majority in the house of commonds can do what is necessary - as long as there 金融市場のせいにしないでください
FINANCE: Getting junked: Who rates countries' debt and why it matters A major ratings agency has downgraded Greek debt to junk status, further damaging the country’s efforts to avoid default and raising doubt over the euro’s overall health. France 24 looks into credit rating agencies and why they matter. 主要な格付け機関がジャンクの状態に、さらに国の努力をデフォルトを避けるために損傷ギリシャ債務を格下げし、ユーロ全体の健康に疑問が提起
Debt crisis: how Fitch, Moody's and S&P rate each country's credit rating. Visualised - with a spreadsheet Fallout from Greece's financial crisis has shone a light on the work of credit ratings agencies. See how different country scores compare• Get the dataAs the fate of Greece's bailout is being thrashed out, the role of the credit ratings agencies is being examined afresh. There are fears over Spain now: the Spanish public deficit was one of the highest in the euro area last year, at 11.4% of GDP. The government has pledged to reduce the deficit to 3% by 2013 and is due to announce a fresh round of cost savings later today.So, who are the ratings agencies? The big three agencies are Fitch, Moody's and Standard & Poors. What they do is assess how likely a borrower is to be able to repay its debts and help those trading debt contracts in the secondary market. That means for those trading debt contracts such as treasury gilts after they've been issued, ratings agencies help assess a fair price to charge. Ratings agencies have been criticised for having too much clout in jittery markets during the financial crisis. They were widely attacked for failing to warn of the risks posed by certain securities, in particular mortgage-backed securities.Losing your rating or being downgraded can have a fatal effect on your country's ability to borrow money on the markets.Thanks to the three big agencies, we can bring you the ratings of countries around the world as of today. Because each agency's approach is slightly different, we've colour-coded them in three broad categories too.Can you do something with the data?Download the data• DATA: download the full datasheetWorld government data• Search the world's government data with our gatewayCan you do something with this data?Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group or mail us at datastore@guardian.co.uk• Get フォールアウトはギリシャの金融危機から信用格付け機関の仕事に光を輝いている
Greece rattles markets as Spain downgraded Global concerns over a potential Greek default and spreading debt problems in the eurozone deepened Wednesday as the country's borrowing costs surged, a day after ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Greece's bonds to junk status, which led to sliding stocks around the world.
The ratings firm Tuesday dropped Greece three pegs to BB+, the first level of speculative status, even below that of Iceland, which rocked global markets when its main banks imploded at the start of the global fin ... ギリシャのデフォルトの可能性グローバルの懸念やユーロ圏の問題を拡散して債務の世界を深め水曜日、国の周りの借入コストが上昇した日後、格付け会社のスタンダード株を主導する摺動ジャンクステータス＆するために債券のギリシャ格下げプアーズは視聴率調査会社火曜日は、ギリシャの3つのドロップBB +に、投機的なステータスの最初のレベル、そのアイスランド、グローバル市場を主な銀行は、グローバルフィンの開始時に破裂し揺るがしたのも下記のペグ...
Fraud charges and Greece crisis batter Wall Street The US stock market lurched wildly this week, tumbling as Europe's debt crisis intensified and as fraud charges rattled financial players.After starting the week strongly the Dow embarked on a massive mid-week slump, spiraling down over 200 points on Tuesday as Standard and Poor's downgraded Greek bonds to junk status and also sliced Portugal's debt rating.The Dow lost 1.75 percent for the week, shedding almost 200 points. The tech-rich Nasdaq lost 2.73 percent and the broad-based S&P 500 lost 2.5 percent. 米国株式市場は乱暴に今週、欧州の債務危機タンブリング見舞わ激化と詐欺罪は、金融players.Afterを週に開始ガタガタと強くダウは大規模な週の半ばスランプに着手、ダウン200ポイント以上の火曜日として急上昇スタンダード＆プアーズジャンクの状態に格下げギリシャ債も、ポルトガルの債務rating.Theダウをスライスして1週間、約200点を流して1.75％を失った
