Brazil Risks Include Inflation, Credit, Competitiveness -OECD - Wall Street Journal


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Brazil Risks Include Inflation, Credit, Competitiveness -OECD
Wall Street Journal
By Matthew Cowley Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--A patch of weak growth in Brazil seems to be coming to an end, but there are still looming risks in the shape of inflation, credit risk and competitiveness, according to the latest outlook ...
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Egypt Starts Vote as Investors Doubt Crisis Over: Arab Credit - BusinessWeek

Egypt Starts Vote as Investors Doubt Crisis Over: Arab Credit
BusinessWeek
Egypt starts presidential elections today with its debt-risk premium double the level when Hosni Mubarak was ousted, evidence that investors doubt the vote alone can pull the country out of an economic slump. The risk premium investors demand to hold ...

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TEXT-S&P cuts Nigeria's First City Monument Bank rating - Reuters

TEXT-S&P cuts Nigeria's First City Monument Bank rating
Reuters
We have therefore revised down our view of its risk position to "moderate" from "adequate". -- We are lowering our long-term counterparty credit rating on FCMB to 'B' from 'B+' and affirming the 'B' short-term rating. At the same time, we are removing ...
TEXT-S&P revises Access Bank outlook to stable Reuters Africa

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Fitch Solutions: Crisis Drives Counterparty Risk Management Improvements - MarketWatch (press release)

Fitch Solutions: Crisis Drives Counterparty Risk Management Improvements
MarketWatch (press release)
LONDON, May 22, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Results from the SCI / Fitch Solutions 2012 Global Credit and Counterparty Risk Survey show that the financial crisis has driven greater awareness across the derivatives industry of the importance of undertaking ...
Building blocks Structured Credit Investor (subscription)

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S&P Capital IQ Enhances Credit and Risk Professionals' Ability to Evaluate ... - MarketWatch (press release)

S&P Capital IQ Enhances Credit and Risk Professionals' Ability to Evaluate ...
MarketWatch (press release)
CreditModel is a widely used risk-evaluation tool that provides an easy, efficient and cost-effective method to help users evaluate an organization's credit quality by generating credit scores in lowercase letter grades for both public and private ...

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Asia-Pacific Bond Risk Rises, Credit-Default Swaps Prices Show - Bloomberg

Asia-Pacific Bond Risk Rises, Credit-Default Swaps Prices Show
Bloomberg
The cost of insuring Asia-Pacific corporate and sovereign bonds from default rose, according to traders of credit-default swaps. The Markit iTraxx Asia index of 40 investment-grade borrowers outside Japan advanced 5.5 basis points to 198 basis points ...
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JPMorgan Veered From Hedging Practices at Banks With Credit Bets - San Francisco Chronicle


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JPMorgan Veered From Hedging Practices at Banks With Credit Bets
San Francisco Chronicle
s biggest US competitors say their corporate investment offices avoid the use of derivatives that led to the bank's $2 billion loss and buy fewer bonds exposed to credit risk. Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. say the offices ...
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TEXT - S&P report on similar credit risks of Caribbean and eurozone - Reuters

TEXT - S&P report on similar credit risks of Caribbean and eurozone
Reuters
(The following statement was released by the rating agency) May 21 - Standard & Poor' Ratings Services analyses similarities and differences between credit risks of the peripheral eurozone sovereigns and their Caribbean counterparts in the article ...

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JPMorgan Veered From Hedging Practices at Competing Banks - Bloomberg


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JPMorgan Veered From Hedging Practices at Competing Banks
Bloomberg
(JPM)'s biggest US competitors say their corporate investment offices avoid the use of derivatives that led to the bank's $2 billion loss and buy fewer bonds exposed to credit risk. Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. (C) and Wells Fargo & Co. say ...
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Fitch Cuts Japan's Credit Rating On High Debt Ratios, Political Risk - Huffington Post


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Fitch Cuts Japan's Credit Rating On High Debt Ratios, Political Risk
Huffington Post
"The downgrades and negative outlooks reflect growing risks for Japan's sovereign credit profile as a result of high and rising public debt ratios," Andrew Colquhoun, head of Asia-Pacific sovereigns at Fitch said in a statement.
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