These will turn into losses if the stockmarket falls another 20%, reckons Standard and Poor's, a credit-rating agency.
In an early sign of trouble, Moody's, a credit-rating agency, recently downgraded the debt of three power projects in Indonesia.
But the process of selling assets for cash has ground to a halt, says a credit analyst at a leading credit-rating agency.
Moody's, a credit-rating agency, shocked Japan by placing it under review for a possible credit downgrade, even though Japan is the world's biggest creditor country.
IBCA, a credit-rating agency, the average return on equity earned by the world's 500 biggest commercial banks has climbed above 10% only once, in 1993.
Instead, he allegedly made false and misleading statements in two employee meetings, during three conference calls with analysts, and to an analyst from a credit-rating agency.
The biggest question, however, is how Japan will adapt to a new era of financial discipline, says Akio Mikuni, president of Mikuni and Co, a credit-rating agency.
In September Moody's, a credit-rating agency, estimated that the case-by-case approach had barely made a dent in the problem, with only 1% of adjustable-rate subprime loans recast.
One credit-rating agency, Egan Jones (which predicted the collapse of Enron and WorldCom), said that Ford was saved from going bust only because it was a household name.
Now Moody's, a credit-rating agency, has lowered India's credit rating.
On July 17th, Moody's, a credit-rating agency, gave warning that it was considering downgrading South Africa's sovereign debt to sub-investment grade, a move that would deter much-needed foreign investment.
Moody's, the international credit-rating agency, recently warned that global consumer electronics giants are vulnerable to problems arising from "low consumer spending and rapidly declining prices" in North America and Europe.
And though fewer firms are defaulting than were doing so or threatening to do so a few months ago, the ratio of upgrades to downgrades by Moody's, a credit-rating agency, continues to decline.
The need for that was reinforced this week by a warning from Fitch, a credit-rating agency, that Britain was the big economy most at risk of losing its prized triple-A status as a sovereign borrower.
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Masaru Kakutani, a director of the Tokyo branch of Moody's, a credit-rating agency, reckons that by the turn of the century some big companies will have to spend a quarter of their operating profits on pension contributions.
Moody's, the credit-rating agency, got publicity--for once, not negative--in January when it warned that the U.S. government may lose its triple-A rating within a decade if Uncle Sam doesn't do something drastic about the unfunded liabilities of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Given the turmoil in the credit markets, here's an initiative the White House should adopt: busting up the credit-rating-agency cartel.
What's amazing is how ineffective the Administration has been in dealing with the root causes of the crisis: easy money, Fannie and Freddie (and soon the Federal Housing Administration), Washington's credit-rating-agency cartel, short-selling abuses and the pernicious too-big-to-fail doctrine.
The Fitch credit agency has taken away its triple-A rating, a veritable death knell for a bond insurer.
Sean Egan , of rating agency Egan-Jones, rates Ford's credit as junk.
Ratings agency Fitch downgraded Greece's long-term credit rating from B- to CCC on Thursday, citing the increased risk that Greece could be forced to leave the eurozone.
Ratings agency Fitch cut Greece's long-term credit rating from B- to CCC Thursday, only one notch above default level, reflecting worries over its ability to remain in the euro currency zone.
In November, Sony suffered the ignominy of having its credit rating downgraded to "junk" by Fitch - indicating that the ratings agency has serious doubts about whether Sony will be able to repay its debts.
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While Italy faces the specter of un-governability, as Berlusconi noted according to the FT, analysts at the credit rating agency are hopeful that a government will form after a four week negotiation period.
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The comments from senior French figures followed a recent warning from US credit ratings agency Standard and Poor's that France could lose its triple-A credit rating over the eurozone crisis.
The credit rating agency put these five and Ireland with negative outlooks, joining the ranks of Portugal and AAA-rated France.
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