sovereign credit

A negative outlook indicates the possibility that Moody's could downgrade the country's sovereign credit rating within a year or two.

In an attempt to find a scapegoat, the German government has banned all naked sovereign-credit-default swaps in Germany.

Ireland's sovereign credit profile is no longer consistent with a high investment grade rating.

"Sovereign credit is not the asset class where we would choose to express a bearish structural view, " UBS said in a note to clients.

The European banking sector also remains under pressure in large part owing to its exposure to European sovereign credit.

Dagong recently published its own sovereign credit ranking, in what it said was a first for a non-western rating agency.

The substitution of sovereign credit for private credit has helped to fend off some of the extremes of the solvency crisis.

Meanwhile, sovereign credit seems to pose new risks of its own. Just, look, for example, at Greece.

Though the agency lowered its outlook to negative, it affirmed its "AAA" long-term and "A-1 " short-term sovereign credit ratings.

Concerns over contagion have caused sovereign credit-default swap spreads to widen, and the cost of borrowing to rise.

Doubts concerning sovereign credit first reached a crisis point in Europe and they revolved around the euro.

India's sovereign credit rating, hovering just above junk status, is under review for a downgrade.

Investors who buy sovereign credit default swaps against the spectre of French or Italian default are wasting their money.

Firstly, a sovereign credit rating downgrade hurt sentiment, deteriorating economic data and political issues have all weighed on the yen.

Fourth, the greatest risk of sovereign credit crises comes not from profligacy but slow growth and deflation.

Financial markets are functioning more or less normally with toxic credit instruments replaced or guaranteed by sovereign credit.

By putting in doubt the viability of the sovereign credit default swap market, leaders are making the debt crisis worse.

It would also ease pressure on banks as concerns about their sovereign credit exposure would subside.

In this respect it's worth noting the Fitch ratings warning that the UK sovereign credit profile has deteriorated.

Fitch rating company to Belgium long-term sovereign credit rating of "AA-" Outlook from "stable" per cent "negative" .

It has also recently downgraded Poland's sovereign credit rating.

Spreads on sovereign credit have reached the stratosphere (see charts).

The scale of the cost could trigger a downgrade to Ireland's sovereign credit rating, the agency added.

The yen has also pared some of yesterday's losses after the S&P downgrade to Japan's sovereign credit rating.

Before the economy has recovered and unemployment has fallen the credibility of sovereign credit has come into question.

Sovereign credit, loan A borrowing guaranteed by the state.

In February, S&P lowered its long-term sovereign-credit-rating outlook on some Indian debt to negative.

The European sovereign credit markets are in a danger zone.

Standard & Poor's has lowered the US long-term sovereign credit rating, leading to speculation as to how it will affect China's economy.

Before the financial crisis, sovereign credit-default swaps traded in single digits.

Q: The Standard & Poor's has recently downgraded Italy's sovereign credit rating. What is China's comment?

It is the wider risk to the eurozone members' sovereign credit ratings.

When it came to sovereign credit, eurozone members were on their own.

In the past 20 years, Canada, Denmark, Finland and Sweden lost and regained their AAA sovereign-credit ratings.

And S&P has lately been in the news for its decision this August to lower the United States' sovereign credit rating from AAA to AA .

On May 20, the cost of protection for US sovereign credit jumped 22 basis points to 50bp.

All in all it fell 2. 6% for the day to end at 10002. 18, a three-month low, thanks to fears about the global economy and sovereign credit.

It is more because it is the largest creditor nation with the best sovereign credit.

Biaopu rating recently announced Italy long-term sovereign credit rating of "A " Outlook from "stable" per cent "negative" ;

to handle the overseas debt issuance by the Chinese government and sovereign credit rating;