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...The deal will allow UTA to tap into Curtis Brown’s deep well of literary talent, which includes writers such as The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood and the estates of Ian Fleming, John le Carré, AA...
...The debt carried a AA- rating from Kroll and fixed interest rates hovering at about 3 per cent for borrowings stretching from 10-15 years....
...the AA, its shareholders and wider stakeholders”....
...Known for its distinctive yellow vans, the AA has been hobbled by debt for years....
...One scoop to start: The AA, the heavily-indebted UK roadside recovery group, has agreed terms of a sale to two private equity groups, Warburg Pincus and TowerBrook....
...A credit rating of AA or higher is necessary for a custody house. In the end, only a minority stake may be sold. That would leave dozens of shareholders on the register....
...S&P has a long-term issuer credit rating of ‘A’ on GE, the third-highest rung of rating after AAA and AA. The company is now on credit watch negative....
...Fellow rating agencies S&P and Fitch have both assigned GE ratings of AA-. In October, S&P placed GE’s rating on review for a possible downgrade, citing its weak operating results....
...Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has affirmed South Korea’s long term AA rating, as it expressed optimism that geopolitical tensions in the region “will not escalate” into armed conflict in at least...
...The rating now stands at A+ from AA-, according to S&P’s website....
...S&P lowered its long-term rating on Hong Kong to AA+ from AAA on Friday after it cut its credit rating on China by one notch to A+ from AA-....
...S&P downgraded Qatar’s sovereign credit rating to AA- in June and warned that it could be downgraded further after a Saudi Arabia-led group of nations accused the government of supporting terrorism and launched...
...Corporate earnings and updates for Tuesday include Nestle, AA, Close Brothers Group, Panmure Gordon and Carnival....
...Concerns about federal debt levels and political divides prompted S&P to issue a controversial downgrade of the US’s rating in 2011 one notch from the highest AAA to AA+ — a move once deemed unthinkable...
...AA, which claims links to the shadowy hacker collective Anonymous, has taken a swing at Gotham City Research, which last month questioned AAC’s reported profit margins and related entities....
...The group’s long-term and short-term corporate credit ratings of AA and A-1+ were maintained....
...points to 6,810DAX up 12 points to 10,373Cac 40 up 3 points to 4,402 In the diary for UK companies today are: Sainsbury’s Q2 sales, SABMiller extraordinary general meeting to approve “megabrew” deal, AA...
...The ratings agency raised its long-term credit rating on the country to AA, from AA-, with a stable outlook. Its short term rating of A-1+ is unchanged....
...“The Finnish economy seems to have turned a corner” said S&P, which has a AA+/A-1 rating on the country’s outstanding debt....
...That came as Standard & Poor’s lowered its credit rating on the UK to “AA-” from “AAA”, becoming the last of the three major ratings agencies to strip the country of the top triple-A rating....
...The ratings agency sliced the group’s rating to “AA+” from “AAA”, citing “low commodity prices, high reinvestment requirements, and large dividend payments”....
...S&P reduced the rating from “AAA” to “AA”, and warned that more cuts could be on the horizon....
...The rating was held at AA-....
...Fitch also cut its rating on the UK on Monday, from AA+ to AA. The New York-based group along with Moody’s yanked the country from their lists of AAA sovereigns in 2013, Bloomberg data show....
...(It now has a long-term counterparty credit rating of AA.) Meanwhile, it has put the BBB+ rating on the LSE on watch with positive implications....
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