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Bad score for French reinsurer

Standard&Poor's Ratings Services has lowered its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on France-based reinsurer Scor and subsidiaries to single-'A'-minus from single-'A'.

Europe / 08-11-02 / by

Lukoil outlook is up

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised its outlook on Lukoil OAO, Russia’s largest vertically integrated oil major, to positive from stable. At the …

Europe / 08-11-02 / by

S&P rates Alfa notes

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has assigned its single-‘B’-minus long-term senior unsecured debt rating to the US$175mn three-year notes issued by the Netherlands-based Alfa-Russia …

Europe / 08-11-02 / by

No great worries in Turkey

The Republic of Turkey’s (B-/Negative/C) newly elected government is expected to continue the market-friendly economic policies of the outgoing administration, Standard & Poor’s Ratings …

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