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Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- A BlackRock Inc. fund that invests in high-yield, high-risk loans may be headed for an event of default after debt prices tumbled, according to Moody’s Investors Service. Moody’s cut ratings on portions of BlackRock Senior ...

BlackRock Loan Fund May Default as Prices Tumble (Update1) - Bloomberg

Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC will get $13.4 billion in emergency government loans in exchange for substantially restructuring their businesses, President George W. Bush announced. Another $4 billion will be available ...

GM and Chrysler Will Get $13.4 Billion in U.S. Loans (Update8) - Bloomberg

Piling on the automotive companies has been a lucrative strategy in 2008, and it continued late into the last few days of the year after Standard & Poor’s said the bankruptcy risk for General Motors , Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC remains high ...

Four at Four: Chop Shop - Wall Street Journal

Downside risk for BBU's ratings would stem from additional back turns on its capital ratio and/or exacerbated government measures that could negatively affect its performance. BBU's ratings reflect its relative size in Venezuela, well-established ...

Fitch Affirms Banesco's Ratings; Outlook Negative - Businesswire.com

In addition, Fitch has downgraded the international ratings on BM's senior debt totaling USD250 million and USD150 million subordinated debt to 'B/RR4' and 'CCC+/RR6' from 'B+/RR4' and 'B-/RR6', respectively. The national long-term ratings of these ...

Fitch Dwngrs Argentina's Banco Macro Int'l Rtgs Following Sovereign ... - Businesswire.com

Friday President Bush announced that the federal government will provide up to $17.4 billion in loans to General Motors and Chrysler, which warned that, without aid, they might go out of business by the end of the month. "In the midst of a financial ...

A Band Aid Or A Bailout? - Forbes

After a deluge of mortgage defaults, the proverbial perfect storm is building. A confluence of negative equity, resetting mortgages and rising unemployment is expected to bring a new wave of foreclosures pressing down on home values. California and ...

Flexible Loans Loom As Foreclosure Threat - Investors Business Daily

In calmer times, most bankers would happily offer a prediction when asked what they expected in the coming year. But after the trauma of the past 18 months, the consensus among those bank executives who have managed to hang on to their jobs is that ...

Certainty the latest casualty of global crisis - Financial Times

ANALYSIS:Some 83 days after the State guaranteed €440 billion in deposits and debts at the Irish banks, the Government has injected €5.5 billion into AIB, Bank of Ireland and Anglo Irish Bank with the possibility of investing up to another €1 ...

State offers shelter to the three main banks - Irish Times

U.S. stocks declined on Tuesday for a second session this week as worries intensified that federal funds might not salvage the auto industry, and economic reports illustrated the economy's decline and ongoing trouble in the housing market. "Buyers ...