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Thats called chapter 11. In the US when you are bankrupt, Chapter 11 Allows you to try & dig yourself out of the mess. I think all US Airlines have been in chapter 11 at some stage. Not many survive.
Sorry to disapoint but, you have problems Quigesy.Have to go to WORK now cheers.
Haha - ill raise you the SMH
Seems Juliuh is about to receive a 23% pay rise - from $366k to $450k
Wow! - 23% increase
Wonder how the public feel in lieu of yesterday's large budget slashes...
Whether its mums in the Park, or their husbands at the pub, they'll remember who was at the helm when mr swan slashed slashed slashed
What about the $15b blow out
That is dead set comedy at its best.
No there was just a big blurb on the recent Budget by swan. Where he admits that if things dont go the way he likes, then the budget is torn up. He has nto factored in things like the European crisis spreading to China & the rest of Asia due to trade slowdown halts & therefore affecting the income of Australia through all he greedy people like Rupert, Twiggy, Nathan, Gina , JAmes etc. The peopel who have saved labors communist Assess.
yeah yeah sky blue, not falling etc. Was the same through Ice age Quigs but doesnt mean it was livable. You lived through the ice age didn't you? In fact I heard your ears are still ringing from the big bang.
Big four banks' credit downgrade threatens December rate cut
Phil Jacob The Daily Telegraph December 02, 2011 8:51AM
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THE major Australian banks have had their credit ratings slashed, in a move that is tipped to dramatically reduce the chances of a rate cut being passed on in full next week.
Standard & Poor's, the world's biggest ratings agency, has changed its ratings criteria in response to criticism in wake of the global financial crisis in 2008.
ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank and Westpac were each cut one notch to AA-minus, the fourth-highest credit rating on S&P's scale.
Macquarie Group was cut by two levels to BBB, the ninth-highest grade. Standard Chartered Plc's rating was increased one level to A-plus, the fifth-highest rating.
The ratings methodology, which S&P began revising after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, now puts more emphasis on the strength of each nation's banking system. Each country is assigned a grade that serves as a starting point for its banks, S&P Managing Director Craig Parmelee said November 29.
The move is tipped to pile pressure on the nation's top banks, with the funding costs for Australia's banks already starting to surge.
In July, a research report from Deutsche Bank suggested Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, ANZ Bank and National Australia may need to sell about $144 billion of bonds in the 12 months ending in June 2012.
The news comes as fellow ratings agency Moody's yesterday warned that Australia's banking system faces "crucial challenges" over the coming year, with global investors to potentially snub the banks as funding costs climb and the world economy slows.
The ratings agency has warned that the health of the system likely hinges on "how severe and how protracted any contagion from the European sovereign crisis may be".
Senior vice president Patrick Winsbury said customer deposits had been "growing faster than loans as deleveraging continues, allowing the major banks to reduce their reliance on offshore wholesale funding".
"The longer-term structural changes associated with increased investment in the resource sector are likely to pressure certain industries and regions, keeping credit impairment levels above the extreme lows of the pre-crisis period," the note said.
Oh and I forgot about the threatened rate cut. Why you are so good on the stats department. Can you inform the readers in here of how many interests rate rises there has been since the doo nuffin doooomed Labor Guvment has come into power.
Good stats that one..... How many interest rate rises. The Telecrap might have that somewhere.