Economic Incentives

The statement accompanying S&P’s upgrade of Irish government debt from A- to A is below the fold – though there is little of note in it ...

Standard and Poors have upgraded Irish government bonds from BBB to A- with positive outlook.  Their statement justifying the upgrade is bel...

In a brief assessment the ratings agency Fitch have affirmed the BBB+ view of Irish government bonds with a stable outlook.  Back in Janua...

Not a lot of talk of government bond yields this week but a quick look at the indicative five-year yield on Irish government bonds calculate...

Although the change itself is not significant, the statement accompanying S&P’s adjustment of their outlook on Irish government debt fro...

Standard and Poors have changed their outlook on Ireland’s BBB+ rating from negative to positive.  This in itself is not a very significant ...

Here is an update of a previous table with the addition of EZ ratings from Canadian firm DBRS (Dominion Bond Rating Service).  DBRS do not p...

Today’s downgrade of Italian government bonds by ratings agency Moody’s was a little unexpected.  Here is a table of the rating of all 17 eu...

For the second time in a fortnight a ratings review has seen Irish government bonds hold their rating at BBB+.  According to Fitch : B...

For the second time since August , S&P has reaffirmed its BBB+ rating for Irish government bonds.  BBB+ is two grades above junk status ...

Yesterday, the Canadian rating agency, Dominion Bond Rating Service or DBRS downgraded Ireland from A to A(low).  The ratings used by DBRS c...

After a day of speculation Standard and Poor’s have officially downgraded US government debt from the top rating AAA to AA+.  Here is the fu...

After a year of almost unrelenting increases Irish government bond yields have been falling for the past two weeks.  The recent drop only go...