Credit rating


Our big four banks still among the world’s most creditworthy

Australia’s AAA sovereign rating from all three ratings groups is another reason the impact on funding costs will be minimal.

Moody’s statement good news for Australia’s AAA rating

If you listen to the Moody’s ratings agency, there seems little risk that Australia’s credit rating is vulnerable.

When taxpayers underwrite ANZ Asia, it’s time to re-regulate

In the first of a two-part series, Bernard Keane looks at how the Government has squandered an opportunity to examine finance sector regulation.

If the UK’s AAA goes, who’s next? US? Japan?

If Britain’s Triple A credit rating is under threat, can America and Japan be far behind?

Government trying too hard to impress credit rating agencies

The Victorian Government should stop using economic mumbo jumbo to convince credit rating agencies to preserve it’s triple-A rating, says Kenneth Davidson. Who cares what they think, anwyay?

Will the budget threaten Vic’s triple-A rating?

Victorian state debt will explode from less than $4 billion to over $31 billion by 2013 — almost exactly the same figure as in 1992, when the state lost its triple-A rating, writes Terry McCrann.

UK economy under review after budget blowout

The UK doesn’t played a part in the global financial crisis, but to have judgment passed by the people who helped cause the mess in the first place is very, very troubling.