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France retains AA debt rating: Fitch

Sat, 27 Jan 2018 09:40:24 +0100

France retained its "AA" credit rating despite its high and rising debt level, Fitch ratings agency said Friday.

Fitch downgrades France's credit rating

Sat, 13 Dec 2014 11:52:00 +0100

Ratings agency Fitch has cut France's credit grade by one notch to "AA" on Friday, saying Paris's efforts to trim its fiscal deficit have fallen short to avoid a downgrade.

Fitch downgrades France from top rating

Sat, 13 Jul 2013 12:19:26 +0200

Ratings agency Fitch downgraded France from the top AAA credit rating on Friday, citing a heavier government debt load and poor prospects for growth.

France keeps Fitch triple-A rating

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:04:57 +0100

The Fitch ratings agency said on Friday that it was keeping France's top AAA credit rating, the only one of the three major ratings agencies to do so, but added that its outlook remained negative.

Ratings firms sceptical on French reforms

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:28:00 +0100

Rating agency S&P took a watch-and-wait attitude to new French economic reforms on Friday, holding an already downgraded notation but with a negative outlook, while giving the benefit of the doubt to the government's determination to enact change.

Moody's affirms France top rating

Fri, 25 May 2012 08:03:00 +0200

International ratings agency Moody's affirmed its top AAA rating for France on Thursday but said it would watch closely the policies of new President Francois Hollande who favours growth above austerity.

France loses AAA-rating: source

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:29:00 +0100

Standard & Poor's has decided to downgrade France's top-notch credit rating but will spare Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, an EU government source told AFP on Friday.

French debt downgrade 'imminent' - rumours

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:26:00 +0100

Standard and Poor's Corp declined comment Friday on rumours on the markets that it was about to downgrade several eurozone credit ratings, as stocks and the euro turned lower after earlier gains.

French bank chief: downgrade Brits first

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:38:00 +0100

The head of the French central bank criticised the British economy on Thursday, arguing that ratings agencies are targeting the wrong country for a debt downgrade.

Brits should be downgraded before France - bank chief

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:38:00 +0100

The head of the French central bank criticised the British economy on Thursday, arguing that ratings agencies are targeting the wrong country for a debt downgrade.

AAA: could France be next to lose top rating?

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:46:14 +0200

After the US lost its AAA-rating last week, there is mounting speculation over whether France is vulnerable to the same fate.