SME Forum: Voices from the industry discuss the benefits of credit rating for SMEs.

Interview with Former Moody’s Senior Analyst/Vice President Sylvain Raynes (Bloomberg News)

Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) — Steven Kroll, managing director at Monness Crespi Hardt & Co., and Matt Shapiro, president of MWS Capital, talk about US stock and bond markets and the outlook for the country’s Aaa credit rating. They speak with Carol Massar, Julie Hyman and Adam Johnson on Bloomberg Television’s “Street Smart.”Copyright Bloomberg 2010 § 107.Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include — (1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; (2) the nature of the copyrighted work; (3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and (4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. US lose cut Aaa AAA credit rating steven kroll Bloomberg QE2 printing stock market tax increases sovereign debt global markets gold silver dollar euro china

According to New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, There are two superpowers in the world today; theres the United States and theres Moodys Bond Rating Service.

Fitch Ratings on Thursday slashed Ireland’s credit rating three notches due to the costs of salvaging the banking system. Pat Cox, former president of the European Parliament, says poor public policy in the last decade helped fuel the Irish crisis. FRANCE 24 INTERNATIONAL NEWS 24/7 www.france24.com

In the wake of the US financial crisis of 2008, there are questions about how credit rating agencies should operate. VOA’s Philip Alexiou has more in this edition of “Money In Motion”.

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Analyst Marko Papic explores the geopolitics behind the EU’s plans to create a body to supervise US-based credit rating agencies.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday that it’s time for the European Union to act against what he considers as irresponsible behaviour by international credit rating agencies such as Fitch and Standard & Poor’s over the Greek government’s debt crisis. Barroso said he will see to it that the EU will make these agencies subject to supervision by European regulators. “The crisis has once again brought the role of credit agencies to the fore,” said Barroso during a plenary debate at the EU parliament in Brussels. “These agencies play a pivotal role in the functioning of financial markets, but ratings appear to be too cyclical, to rely on the general market mood rather than on fundamentals regardless whether market mood is too optimistic or too pessimistic.” “To strengthen the supervision of these actors of Europe wide dimension, the Commission believe they should be put under the direct supervision of the future European Security Market Authority and that is exactly what we will propose. We have also launch a reflection under whether furtehr measures should be needed to ensure the propoer rating of sovereign debt in particular.” “Free market consitute the basis for the functioning of succesful economies but free markets need rules and compliance and rules and compliance need to be tightened if a irresponsible behaviour puts at risk what can not and should not be put at risk.” “Regulatory authorities and …

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