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  • Friday, 25 April, 2025
    Markets InsightClimate change
    There is a viable way to finance carbon emissions reduction

    Mobilising private funds through the capital market offers practical solutions to combat climate crisis

    The labourers are silhouetted by the sun
  • Friday, 31 January, 2025
    Markets InsightSovereign debt
    Will the credit rating agencies stand up to Trump?

    Debt rankers appear to have been more coy in recent years on risks of developed economies than emerging markets

  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    Markets InsightGerman economy
    Germany’s economy: down but not quite out

    The fixation with balanced budgets over everything else will be overcome

    A train travels along a railway bridge near the European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Markets InsightAfrican economy
    African criticism of credit ratings is a red herring

    Agencies are convenient scapegoats but recent data shows no negative bias towards countries in the region

    A market in Accra, Ghana
  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
    Markets InsightWar in Ukraine
    How to rally support for Ukraine on bond markets

    Credit enhancements for debt issued by Kyiv would allow funds to be raised more quickly and on a larger scale

    A woman with kids walks next to a residential house damaged by a Russian military strike
  • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
    Markets InsightEuropean Stability Mechanism
    Italy harms itself by blocking changes to crisis-fighting in eurozone

    The ECB can break the impasse by putting pressure on Rome to approve the European Stability Mechanism treaty

    Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni
  • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
    Markets InsightCapital markets
    EU bonds have not lived up to high expectations

    Investors have gradually realised that the debt’s triple A ratings do not reflect underlying credit characteristics

    Montage of a woman against a background of EU coronavirus bonds
  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    Markets InsightEuropean Central Bank
    Italy can deal with higher interest rates

    ECB should not let worries over country’s debt stand in way of greater monetary policy action against inflation

    Christine Lagarde
  • Thursday, 8 July, 2021
    Markets InsightSovereign bonds
    The case for ‘truly-long-term’ debt ratings

    As challenges of climate change and ageing mount, investors need benchmarks for risks in decades to come

    A dirt track runs through trees destroyed by forest wildfires in Australia
  • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
    Markets InsightEmerging market investing
    Bondholders need to forgive some African sovereign debt

    Coronavirus pandemic has brought the continent’s day of reckoning forward

  • Friday, 10 April, 2020
    Markets InsightEurozone economy
    The eurozone is at risk of a debt crisis worse than the last one

    Most vulnerable member states are starting from a significantly weaker position

  • Thursday, 5 September, 2019
    Markets InsightEuropean Central Bank
    Why the ECB should gear up for a ‘helicopter money’ drop

    Negative rates are not working. It’s time policymakers tried a more radical approach

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  • Friday, 14 June, 2019
    Markets InsightForeign aid
    If Britain baulks on its Brexit bill, poor countries could suffer

    Reneging on £39bn payment may lead to downgrades of multilateral development banks

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  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2019
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    S&P and Co are maintaining stable outlooks despite shutdowns and widening deficit

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  • Friday, 11 November, 2016
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  • Wednesday, 13 July, 2016
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  • Friday, 24 June, 2016
    World
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  • Thursday, 23 June, 2016
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  • Thursday, 29 October, 2015
    Brexit
    Brexit vote risks double rating cut, S&P warns

    Departure from EU in referendum could result in downgrade by as much as two notches

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