{"id":6016,"date":"2012-11-05T13:52:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T18:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=6016"},"modified":"2012-11-05T13:52:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T18:52:34","slug":"australian-court-finds-sp-liable-for-ratings-opinion-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/05\/australian-court-finds-sp-liable-for-ratings-opinion-bloomberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian court finds S&#038;P liable for ratings opinion &#124; Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian judge has found S&amp;P [MHP] liable for its opinion in assigning AAA ratings to two ABN Amro structured debt issues in 2006, which lost over 90% of value during the GFC &#8212; the first time a ratings agency has been held liable for such an opinion.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>S&amp;P was \u201cmisleading and deceptive\u201d in its rating of two structured debt issues in 2006, Federal Court Justice Jayne Jagot said in her ruling released today in Sydney.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-11-04\/s-p-found-liable-by-australian-court-for-misleading-ratings.html\">McGraw-Hill Plummets After Australian Court Ruling &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian judge has found S&amp;P [MHP] liable for its opinion in assigning AAA ratings to two ABN Amro structured debt issues in 2006, which lost over 90% of value during the GFC &#8212; the first time a ratings agency has been held liable for such an opinion. S&amp;P was \u201cmisleading and deceptive\u201d in its &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/05\/australian-court-finds-sp-liable-for-ratings-opinion-bloomberg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Australian court finds S&#038;P liable for ratings opinion &#124; Bloomberg&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,47,22,34],"tags":[105,1893,2263,2856,3223,3270],"class_list":["post-6016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-nz-countries-regions","category-derivatives","category-other","category-us-canada-countries-regions","tag-aaa","tag-investment-grade","tag-mcgraw-hill","tag-ratings-agency","tag-standard-poors","tag-structured-debt"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Australian court finds S&#038;P liable for ratings opinion &#124; Bloomberg - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Australian court finds S&#038;P liable for ratings opinion &#124; Bloomberg - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An Australian judge has found S&amp;P [MHP] liable for its opinion in assigning AAA ratings to two ABN Amro structured debt issues in 2006, which lost over 90% of value during the GFC &#8212; the first time a ratings agency has been held liable for such an opinion. 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