by bondevalue | Sep 26, 2017 | Credit Ratings, Financial News, HomePage, Sovereign Bonds, Sovereigns
Following Standard & Poors’ downgrade of China’s long-term sovereign credit ratings to ‘A+’ from ‘AA-‘ and the short-term rating to ‘A-1’ from ‘A-1+’, both with a ‘stable’ outlook, the Chinese...
by bondevalue | Sep 20, 2017 | Credit Ratings, Financial News, HomePage, Sovereign Bonds, Sovereigns
Recent credit rating upgrades for Ireland and Portugal represent a hint of optimism for the so-called ‘peripheral’ economies of the EU. At the end of markets close on Friday, Portugal saw its S&P credit rating increase to BBB- from BB+. This puts the country’s...
by bondevalue | Sep 13, 2017 | China, Corporates, Credit Ratings, Financial News, HomePage, Investment Grade Bonds
Just 5 months after its US$3.4 billion multi-tranche issue in April, Sinopec Group, or China Petroleum Corp, returned to the dollar bond markets last week with a US$3.25 billion deal, amassing total new issuance in 2017 of US$6.65 billion. Sinopec is the largest...
by bondevalue | Jul 20, 2017 | Credit Ratings, Financial News, HomePage
Dagong Global Credit Rating Co., prepares to introduce a digital credit rating platform in the subsequent months, in bid to boost transparency their country’s at-times-questionable rating environment. This proposed platform requires that companies submit financial...
by bondevalue | Jul 5, 2017 | Credit Ratings, Financial News, HomePage, Singapore Dollar Bonds
The Monetary Authority of Singapore announced a Credit Rating Grant last week to encourage potential Singapore dollar bond issuers to obtain a credit ratings, subsidising 100 per cent of the corporate’s credit rating expenses, subject to a cap of S$400,000 per...
by bondevalue | Jun 20, 2017 | Banks, Credit Ratings, Financial Institution Bonds, Financial News
Moody’s downgrades credit ratings of ANZ, CBA, NAB, Westpac, the big 4 Australian Banks. Ratings firm revises the banks’ long-term ratings to Aa3 from Aa2, and the ratings outlook to stable from negative. Moody cites high levels of household debt as a risk to the...
