Latest update: 19/01/2012 

- debt - Economic crisis - euro - European markets - finance


Jan Randolph, director of Sovereign Risk, IHS Global Insight

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France has successfully sold 8.59 billion euros in short-term bonds, paying a lower rate of interest than at a previous similar auction. This comes despite the loss of its triple-A credit rating last Friday. Jan Randolph gives us his insight into Standard & Poor’s ratings downgrades and the seemingly paradoxical market reaction.

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