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Tag: Credit Rating

Posted inAT+

Perfect storm sinking the almighty dollar

by William Pesek July 27, 2020July 31, 2020

The “dollar-is-crashing” trade is the ultimate widow-maker. For decades, it’s confounded more punters than bets against Chinese stocks, Japanese debt and Hong Kong property combined.

Yet might it soon pay off, finally, thanks to Donald Trump’s blunderbuss of a White House? The odds don’t favor it, at least for now.

Neither Trump pushing US debt past the US$25 trillion mark nor his trade war nor his disastrous response to the coronavirus has tanked the reserve currency. The reason, of course, is a dearth of trusted alternatives.

Yet the famous, or infamous, observation by Nixon-era US Treasury Secretary John Connolly that the “dollar is our currency, but it’s your problem” is truer in the Covid-19 era than it was in 1971.

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by Asia Times staff December 13, 2018February 18, 2020
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S&P likely to follow regular rating review schedule for China – executive

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Posted inChina, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Northeast Asia, World

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Posted inChina

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by Asia Unhedged May 26, 2017February 18, 2020
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by Asia Unhedged May 24, 2017February 18, 2020
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Posted inChina, Shanghai, World

China rejects Moody’s reason for first rating cut since 1989

by Asia Times and agencies May 24, 2017February 18, 2020
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