Australia’s AAA sovereign rating from all three ratings groups is another reason the impact on funding costs will be minimal.
Credit rating
Our big four banks still among the world’s most creditworthy
Crikey / Glenn Dyer / Friday, 2 December 2011
Moody’s statement good news for Australia’s AAA rating
Crikey / Glenn Dyer / Thursday, 10 September 2009
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
Crikey / Bernard Keane / Wednesday, 9 September 2009
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?
Crikey / Glenn Dyer / Friday, 22 May 2009
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 Age / Wednesday, 6 May 2009
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?
Herald Sun / Wednesday, 6 May 2009
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
Crikey / Glenn Dyer / Friday, 24 April 2009
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.







