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Wed Jul 1

• California misses budget deadline, readies ''IOUs'': By Jim Christie SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California 9;s lawmakers failed to agree on a balanced budget by the start of its new fiscal year on Wednesday morning, clearing the way to suspend payments owed to the state's vendors and local agencies, who...

Tue Jun 23

• Oakland plans to open bond sale to small investors: Chron (mathai) article - positive news for Oakland's bond rating. Oakland's is better than California 9;s

Sun Apr 26

• Borrowing puts UK's AAA rating in danger after Budget 2009 - Telegraph

Mon Mar 23

• Should USA still be AAA? - Mar. 23, 2009

Fri Feb 13

• Finance Corporate Debt Ratings Moody's and S&P

Wed Oct 29

• breakingviews | GE: Moody's and Standard and Poor's continue to rate General Electric' s debt as AAA but the credit default swap market is pricing insurance on GE's debt as if it was much riskier. This is presented as evidence that the bond rating agencies are unreliable and it is claimed that nobody pays any attention to them anymore blaming them for the recent financial turmoil.

Mon Oct 20

• Value Research: The Complete Guide to Mutual Funds: The net result will be that either the business of running fixed-income mutual funds will shrink and wither away, or it will have to be completely redesigned. MF had problem in liquidating Certificate of Deposit from major banks and commercial paper from highly-rated companies. However, there are other types of funds that could prove problematic. A major example is the so-called Fixed Maturity Plans (FMPs). The real problem here is that those who redeem early will be paid an over-estimated NAV that is based on assumptions estimates.

Thu Jun 5

• The Herald-Mail

Thu Apr 24

• Credit Rating: Triple-A Failure - New York Times: The real problem is that the agencies? mathematical formulas look backward while life is lived forward. That is unlikely to change.

Sun Feb 24

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