Standard and Poors

EU's Financial Outlook Downgraded To 'Negative' By Ratings Agency Moody's

Huffington Post UK | Posted 04.09.2012 | UK

Rating agency Moody’s has changed the European Union’s financial outlook from 'stable' to 'negative', warning that the bloc's AAA rating could als...

Britain's AAA Credit Rating Confirmed In Boost To Osborne's Budget

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 13.04.2012 | UK

Britain's gold-plated AAA credit rating was affirmed by Standard & Poor's on Friday in a boost to Chancellor George Osborne's belt-tightening austerit...

Greece: A Default?

Amarjot Sidhu | Posted 29.03.2012 | UK Politics
Amarjot Sidhu

Journalistic convention states that one should insert a cliché phrase about the eurozone in this introduction: "the Eurozone has turned a leaf" or perhaps "Greece has begun a new chapter in their economic comeback". Nothing of that sort has happened.

Will Britain Be Giving More Cash To The Eurozone?

Posted 16.01.2012 | UK Politics

Britain will consider giving more money to stricken eurozone countries through the IMF, George Osborne has said. The chancellor said, however, that...

BATTLE STATIONS: Cameron Faces EU Summit Fight

Huffington Post UK | Posted 08.12.2011 | UK Politics

David Cameron is facing increasing pressure from his own backbenchers as he heads to a make-or-break European summit in Brussels. Downing Street in...

Treasury Secretary's Fury Over U.S. Downgrade

Posted 07.10.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- US Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner has said that credit rating agency Standard & Poor's showed "terrible judgment" in lowerin...