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...If you need cash, or if you want to de-risk entirely, selling your HY now makes sense....
...S&P cited the World Bank’s backing plus Argentina’s “unblemished record” in servicing multilateral debt....
...Morningstar data showed that three large core US equity ETFs: iShares Core S&P 500 (IVV), SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) and Vanguard S&P 500 (VOO) each bled between $10bn and $12bn in April — a far cry from March when...
...People had already de-risked ......
...Naveen Sarma, a senior director at credit rating agency S&P Global, said the current Disney bid could push its rating to triple-B plus from A plus....
...A mass market in electric vehicles could, however, significantly lift global demand; Goldman Sachs estimates that the Model S sedan, made by the US electric carmaker Tesla, uses 63kg of LCE in its battery...
...Société Fédérale de Participations et d’Investissement, Société Générale and BPI Vida e Pensões-Companhia de Seguros....
...ECB chief economist, January 2012: Peter Praet, Belgium (S&P: AA, Moody’s: AA3, Fitch: AA) – This is the last time a non-triple-A candidate triumphed over triple-A rivals, but it came only after a classic...
...A Brazilian plan for a “bullet train” linking Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo is attracting strong foreign interest, despite heavy criticism and three failed attempts to pull in investors....
..., from triple A to double A plus....
...However, S&P said it expected to conclude its review “as soon as possible” following this week’s summit of EU leaders on Friday....
...In doing so, S&P surely also questions the AAA future of the EFSF....
...triple A to double A plus last Friday....
...It solidifies its Spanish position for a cash cost of €500m – and half of that will be paid for by T5’s minorities. For Prisa, a distressed seller, the result is more equivocal....
...The FTSE Global Banking index fell as much as 2.7 per cent and the S&P 500 plunged 2 per cent as investors feared the proposal would batter investment banking earnings and signalled the administration was...
...As the agency emphasised in January (emphasis ours): As more of ICO´s lending activity is carried out in EUR, most of our issues are swapped back into this currency so as to avoid interest and exchange...
...P downgraded our insurance company, MBIA Insurance Corporation, to Double-A and our holding company, MBIA Inc., to Single-A minus....
...In New York, the S&P 500 index closed 5.4 per cent down over the week at 16-month low. It was the worst week for the index since July 2002....
...Aviva, the insurance company, was the FTSE 100’s biggest loser....
...International Data Corporation estimates that S$25.31m was spent on e-learning in Singapore alone in 2004 and this figure is expected to triple by 2008....
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