# downgrade - Tuesday 30 June, 2015
# End Of The Line
# End Of The Line
Greece is finally heading for a default on its IMF loans.
# downgrade - Wednesday 10 June, 2015
# Downgrade
# Downgrade
The closure will create additional risks and be more costly, said the POA.
# downgrade - Tuesday 20 May, 2014
# Protest
# Protest
The health minister said the department would only close if it was there was capacity elsewhere in the system.
# downgrade - Wednesday 18 December, 2013
# Downgrade
# Downgrade
The investment service said the results of the stress test that will be undertaken by the ECB next year are “difficult to anticipate”.
# downgrade - Saturday 1 December, 2012
# Downgrade
# Downgrade
The European Stability Mechanism has been downgraded by Moody’s, following a similar drop for France.
# downgrade - Saturday 3 November, 2012
# Downgrade
# Downgrade
Proposals outlined this week could see the hospital’s structure broken up and aligned with Cork University Hospital.
# downgrade - Tuesday 26 June, 2012
# Downgraded
# Downgraded
Banks downgraded last night include one of the eurozone’s biggest – Banco Santander.
# downgrade - Thursday 14 June, 2012
# Take 5
# Take 5
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
# Spain
# Spain
Moody’s downgraded Spanish debt to within one notch of ‘junk’ status yesterday.
# Cyprus
# Cyprus
The credit ratings agency has said that it has placed Cyprus’ rating on review for further possible downgrade.
# downgrade - Monday 30 April, 2012
# Spain
# Spain
Spanish banks are now discussing creating a private entity to assume control of their toxic assets though there would be no taxpayer involvement in such a creation.
# downgrade - Friday 27 April, 2012
# Recession
# Recession
Almost one quarter of the workforce is unemployed, according to the latest figures out today.
# downgrade - Thursday 15 March, 2012
# Credit Ratings
# Credit Ratings
The nation has held onto its AAA rating but has been warned it could lose its top rating if cut-backs are eased.
# downgrade - Tuesday 28 February, 2012
# Downgrade
# Downgrade
The ratings agency demonstrates it can read, by officially acknowledging that Greece’s bond-swap is a ‘selective default’.
# downgrade - Tuesday 14 February, 2012
# Downgrade
# Downgrade
What downgrade? Italy flogs billions in 12-year bonds with interest rates falling dramatically on a similar bond last month.
# Credit Rating
# Credit Rating
France and the UK were both warned that they could lose their coveted AAA credit rating.
# downgrade - Monday 13 February, 2012
# Downgraded
# Downgraded
Fitch cut the ratings on four of Spain’s financial institutions – while S&P downgraded 15.
# downgrade - Tuesday 17 January, 2012
# EFSF
# EFSF
The EFSF sells six-month bills with an average interest rate of 0.2664 per cent – despite being downgraded yesterday.
# Bondwatch
# Bondwatch
Spain sees the interest rate for 12-month bonds fall significantly, while Belgium has mixed results in an auction of its own.
# downgrade - Monday 16 January, 2012
# Downgrade
# Downgrade
Standard & Poor’s downgrades the European Financial Stability Fund, meaning our future loans will probably cost us more.
# Bond Markets
# Bond Markets
After slowly winding down its programme of hoovering up eurozone debt, the ECB was called back into action in a big way.
# Moody's
# Moody's
It follows Standard & Poor’s downgrade of France and others on Friday.
# Markets
# Markets
The ratings agency said it doesn’t believe European leaders are doing enough to tackle the ongoing crisis.
# downgrade - Sunday 15 January, 2012
# Eurozone
# Eurozone
The US-based credit rating agency has defended its decision after a sharp European backlash yesterday against its move to downgrade nine EU countries.
# downgrade - Saturday 14 January, 2012
# Eurozone
# Eurozone
The European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary affairs has strongly criticised yesterday’s decision by Standard & Poor’s, saying that member states had been taking “decisive action in all fronts” to stem the debt crisis.
# downgrade - Friday 13 January, 2012
# Downgrade
# Downgrade
A French downgrade is bad news for us, too – because Europe’s bailout fund is also likely to be downgraded by S&P.
# Daily Fix
# Daily Fix
In tonight’s fix: Downgrade s for France – and difficulty for us? Plus: yet more rows over septic tanks, victory for workers at La Senza, and every presentation you’ve ever seen…
# downgrade - Thursday 29 December, 2011
# Review 2011
# Review 2011
2011 may be remembered in future as the year we sorted out the financial crisis – or the year in which it grew beyond our control.
# downgrade - Monday 12 December, 2011
# Credit Ratings
# Credit Ratings
Moody’s follows the lead of Standard & Poor’s, complaining about “the absence of measures to stabilise credit markets”.
# downgrade - Friday 9 December, 2011
# Downgrade
# Downgrade
The ratings agency says the ongoing euro crisis means the eurozone is a “fragile operating environment for European banks” at the moment.
# downgrade - Wednesday 19 October, 2011
# Debt Crisis
# Debt Crisis
European leaders are feeling the pressure today as Spain becomes the latest country to experience a credit rating downgrade.
# downgrade - Friday 7 October, 2011
# Downgrade
# Downgrade
Twelve banks in the UK and nine in Portugal have been downgraded after Moody’s reassessed the financial institutions’ support environment.
# downgrade - Tuesday 20 September, 2011
# Italy
# Italy
The agency said a “weakening” economy and fragile government were putting the country at risk.
# downgrade - Tuesday 23 August, 2011
# Power Struggle
# Power Struggle
Deven Sharma, the president of Standard & Poor’s, will step down within a month after facing criticism for lowering the US’s rating.
# downgrade - Tuesday 16 August, 2011
# Fitch
# Fitch
Fitch and Moody’s say they’ll be letting Standard & Poor’s go on a solo run – with two of the three agencies refusing to downgrade.
# downgrade - Saturday 13 August, 2011
# Ratings Agency
# Ratings Agency
In the aftermath of the debt downgrade, people are wondering how S&P and the likes became so powerful. Here’s the answer.
# downgrade - Friday 12 August, 2011
# Insider Trading
# Insider Trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly asking Standard & Poor’s to account for anyone who knew about the US downgrade.
# downgrade - Monday 8 August, 2011
# In The Red
# In The Red
The Dow Jones ends its day deep in the red, as the S&P loses 6.6 per cent and the NASDAQ sheds nearly 7 per cent of its value.
# Take 5
# Take 5
5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock.
# Markets
# Markets
The US bond market responds brilliantly to the S&P downgrade, but the world’s stock markets are the obvious victims.
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