Showing posts with label Irish credit ratings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish credit ratings. Show all posts
Friday, September 12, 2014

12/9/2014: Irish Risk Ratings Comeback

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Euromoney article on Ireland's improved risk ratings  http://www.euromoney.com/Article/3379641/Category/14091/ChannelPage/8959/Irish-c...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

2/10/2013: Euro area sovereign crisis: predictable and reasonably priced?

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Can a model-based credit ratings system be used to predict future fiscal distress? Answer seems to be: yes. And have the fiscal downgra...
Friday, December 21, 2012

21/12/2012: Slight upgrade for Ireland

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Nice small present for the Day After (yep, that 'End of the World' thingy passed peacefully): Euromoney Credit Risk survey gave Ir...
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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Economics 02/07/2009: Downgrade on Irish debt

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Moody's downgraded Ireland from top Aaa government-bond ratings one notch to Aa1 (hat tip to PMD) saying that Ireland's policy respo...
Monday, March 30, 2009

The cost of Ministerial chatter: Irish credit ratings

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After a week of incomprehensible gibberish coming out of the Government statements on: borrowing restraints ( here ); receipts shortfalls ( ...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Irish credit III

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NTMA is brewing up a plan again ( here ). This time around, reportedly for a 5-year bond to be launched next Tuesday at 4.5%. Which would b...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Housekeeping and S&P

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You can see a quick snippet of my contribution to the Bloomberg report on Ireland today here . But for now, the main piece of news of the w...
Friday, March 13, 2009

New Credit Markets Acrobats: Brian, Brian & Mary

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The media is now ‘seriously’ talking about the Government setting up a ‘shamrock’ SFEF-styled bond (named after Societe de Financement de l&...
Friday, March 6, 2009

Buffet's Lesson from Ireland

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Buffett Can't Find Green in Ireland, says Barron's ( here ) " IT'S RARE FOR WARREN BUFFETT to suffer a near-total loss on a...
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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Some housekeeping: a handful of updates

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A cleaning up of some of my emails provided for a digest of interesting updates on the topics already covered in other posts. Here is an att...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009

The Latest Exchequer Figures: can Biffo turn Gruffalo?

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Gruffalo is a marvelously hideous and not-so-bright character in my son's favorite books. Today's Exchequer figures and the talk abo...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Kranty - the end of the road? Updated

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Updated below " Kranty " is a Russian slang for German "Kaput ", Italian " Finita la Comedia ", or in plai...
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Sunday, February 22, 2009

Germany to the Rescue! - Update I

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Now a peak at the CDS spreads again (hat tip to BL). To my earlier post ( here ) see the chart below: Gheez - we have Irish CDS reaching tow...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Germany to the Rescue!

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And so it comes to pass that my comment yesterday on the German need for a rescue package for Ireland (see WSJ blog here ) is today's FT...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Back from the snow

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I am back in Dublin after a few days of snow-capped Italian Alps, great food, great wine, sunshine, crisp and clean mountains air. Friuli w...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Paul De Grauwe View: Credit Trouble Ireland

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"Spreads of sovereign debt within the eurozone have increased dramatically during the last few months, largely as a result of panic in ...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Falling from disgrace

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Ah, another day, another screw up in the Biffoland – the veritable emporium of economic policy oddities and quaint Boggerista collectibles. ...
Monday, February 2, 2009

S&P's visit: Pints!

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S&P gang is in town (hat tip to P.O.) making rounds, sniffing out the need to slam the book on Irish bonds AAA rating. Better late than ...
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Saturday, January 31, 2009

DofF Forecast: does it hold any water?

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I have a serious question to ask of our Government: Do budgetary projections by the DofF in (e.g those contained in their January 2009 Adden...