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  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Markets InsightAfrican economy
    African criticism of credit ratings is a red herring

    Agencies are convenient scapegoats but recent data shows no negative bias towards countries in the region

    A market in Accra, Ghana
  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
    Markets InsightWar in Ukraine
    How to rally support for Ukraine on bond markets

    Credit enhancements for debt issued by Kyiv would allow funds to be raised more quickly and on a larger scale

    A woman with kids walks next to a residential house damaged by a Russian military strike
  • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
    Markets InsightEuropean Stability Mechanism
    Italy harms itself by blocking changes to crisis-fighting in eurozone

    The ECB can break the impasse by putting pressure on Rome to approve the European Stability Mechanism treaty

    Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni
  • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
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    EU bonds have not lived up to high expectations

    Investors have gradually realised that the debt’s triple A ratings do not reflect underlying credit characteristics

    Montage of a woman against a background of EU coronavirus bonds
  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    Markets InsightEuropean Central Bank
    Italy can deal with higher interest rates

    ECB should not let worries over country’s debt stand in way of greater monetary policy action against inflation

    Christine Lagarde
  • Thursday, 8 July, 2021
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    As challenges of climate change and ageing mount, investors need benchmarks for risks in decades to come

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  • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
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    Bondholders need to forgive some African sovereign debt

    Coronavirus pandemic has brought the continent’s day of reckoning forward

  • Friday, 10 April, 2020
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    The eurozone is at risk of a debt crisis worse than the last one

    Most vulnerable member states are starting from a significantly weaker position

  • Thursday, 5 September, 2019
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    Why the ECB should gear up for a ‘helicopter money’ drop

    Negative rates are not working. It’s time policymakers tried a more radical approach

    Mandatory Credit: Photo by SHAWN THEW/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (10326377a) (FILE) - International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde delivers remarks during a press conference on the US economy at the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington, DC, USA, 06 June 2019 (reissued 02 July 2019). Reports on 02 July 2019 state French Emmanuel Macron has proposed the current chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde from France, as head of the European Central Bank (ECB) as European Union leaders continue their discussions in Brussels of how to fill the five important EU posts. European Union summit in Brussels on top jobs, Washington, USA - 06 Jun 2019
  • Friday, 14 June, 2019
    Markets InsightForeign aid
    If Britain baulks on its Brexit bill, poor countries could suffer

    Reneging on £39bn payment may lead to downgrades of multilateral development banks

    Boris Johnson during the launch of his campaign to become leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party and Prime Minister at the Royal Academy of Engineering in central London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Wednesday June 12, 2019. See PA story POLITICS Tories. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2019
    US economy
    Do not expect rating agencies to dock the US

    S&P and Co are maintaining stable outlooks despite shutdowns and widening deficit

    Mandatory Credit: Photo by MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (10050823f) A barricade is seen on the grouds of the the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC, USA, 07 January 2019. A partial shutdown of the US federal government continues since Congress and Trump failed to strike a deal before a 22 December 2018 funding deadine due to differences regarding border security. This shutdown, which has become the second-longest in US history, has affected about 800,000 federal workers. About 380,000 federal workers have been furloughed and an additional 420,000 have been working without knowing when they will next be paid. The National Park Service has said it will take funds from entrance fees to pay for cleaning up overflowing trash, patroling of parks and other services. Partial shutdown of the US federal government continues, Washington, USA - 07 Jan 2019
  • Friday, 11 November, 2016
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  • Wednesday, 13 July, 2016
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  • Thursday, 23 June, 2016
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  • Thursday, 29 October, 2015
    Brexit
    Brexit vote risks double rating cut, S&P warns

    Departure from EU in referendum could result in downgrade by as much as two notches

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