Security Capital Gets Downgrade From Fitch
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Shares of bond insurers opened strongly Thursday on hopes of a bailout for the beleaguered sector, but ended up falling sharply after Fitch Ratings downgraded Security Capital Assurance.
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Shares of KeyCorp  fell as much as 7 percent on Wednesday after an RBC Capital Markets analyst downgraded the stock to "underperform" from "sector perform," citing expected write-downs tied to residential construction loans and commercial real estate.
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Fitch Ratings on Monday said it may downgrade the foreign and local currency debt ratings for Mexico&#39;s Cemex (CEMEXCPO.MX: Quote, Profile, Research) , citing the cement maker&#39;s plans to buy Britain&#39;s RMC Group for 2.3 billion
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The disclosure this week that a Singapore-listed company controlled by a Chinese state-owned enterprise lost $550 million in derivatives transactions
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Decreasing sales threaten the defense contractor's stock price.
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FGIC Corp's bond insurance arm lost its top "AAA" rating from Fitch Ratings on Wednesday, a blow to the insurer's business model that could also cause downgrades to more than 100,000 municipal bonds.
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Stocks turned sharply negative on Tuesday as shares of financial services companies slid with traders citing rumors of more financial problems at Countrywide Financial Corp , the largest U.S. mortgage lender.
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European equites dropped on Friday to an almost five month low, led down by broker downgrades on food and beverage producers as investors took profits on defensive stocks.
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Moody's Investors Service lowered the credit ratings on $5.2 billion of bonds backed by subprime mortgages and Standard &amp; Poor's said it may cut ratings on $12 billion as the companies seek to deflect criticism they were too slow to act as home-loan defaults rose.
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Standard &amp; Poor's downgraded its rating on Fidelity Investments parent FMR Corp. , citing lackluster performance at the Boston company's well-known mutual funds division. Standard &amp; Poor's analyst Charles D. Rauch said FMR faces "stagnant earnings and weak profitability" compared with peer investment companies, explaning why the rating on Fidelity's long-term notes was reduced to "AA-minus" from "AA." ...
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UK blue chips reversed earlier gains Wednesday to close lower, tracking Wall Street's sharp decline as Merrill Lynch's big write-down raised concern over other banks' exposure to the credit markets.
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Charles Schwab Corp. , the largest U.S. discount brokerage, has halved the level of assets that clients need to avoid paying some fees.
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Shares of KeyCorp  fell as much  as 7 percent on Wednesday after an RBC Capital Markets analyst  downgraded the stock to "underperform" from "sector perform,"  citing expected write-downs tied to residential construction  loans and commercial real estate.
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Credit Suisse has written $2.85 billion off the value of its asset-backed investments and found mismarking and pricing errors on its books, it revealed on Tuesday, sending its shares plummeting.
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Turmoil in the subprime mortgage market took its toll on two Wall Street investment banks today, as second-quarter profit at Bear Stearns dropped 33 percent and Goldman Sachs squeezed out a modest 1 percent rise in profit.
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Despite another win, the armored vehicle maker's stock falls.
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Fitch Ratings on Friday downgraded the European aerospace giant EADS, the parent group of planemaker Airbus, due to "pressure" on its earnings margins and cash flow generation.