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...is expected to pass 13 percent by the end of 2009. And, earlier this year, Standard & Poor's cut Ireland's credit rating twice after Anglo-Irish Banks reported tremendous losses. Love is always in the air at the Bellinter House in...

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...between 10-year Irish debt and the German equivalent was little changed at 145 basis points today. It reached 284 basis points in March. Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investors Service reduced Ireland's sovereign ratings earlier this year.

In this article: Fitch, Ireland, European Union, Cyprus, London, and Italy

Why aren't more municipal bonds being downgraded by the ratings agencies Fitch, Moody's and S&P? If you look at sovereign debt in revenue-constrained countries like Greece, Portugal or Ireland, the ratings agencies are issuing warnings.

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...wrote in a research note today. The statistics agency's actions "will thus help validate the rating agencies' wait-and-see attitude, and ought to at least prevent the country falling below AA for Standard & Poor's and Aa1 for Moody's. "...

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S&P cuts Ireland credit rating again S&P downgrades Ireland credit rating again IRELAND had its credit rating cut for the second time in three months and was warned that it could fall further following concerns about the "continued...

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...cost of bank-rescue measures. The agency stripped us of our highest AAA level in April while both Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investors Service also reduced our sovereign ratings earlier this year. The latest downgrade puts Ireland's...

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UPDATE 2-S&P cuts Ireland rating to AA on bank rescue cost * S&P downgrades Ireland rating to AA with negative outlook * Cites soaring cost of bank sector bailout * Finance minister says downgrade reflects past developments * Downgrade...

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...Cooper Industries on S&P 500 NEW YORK - Standard & Poor's is replacing Cooper Industries Ltd., which is moving its home base to Ireland, with Airgas Inc. on its widely followed S&P 500 stock index. Cooper Industries, which had its...

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...director in London, said. "The breadth and depth of the country's banking sector problems have substantially increased sovereign risk," he added. Both Standard & Poor's and Moody's reduced Ireland's sovereign ratings earlier this year.

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