Monday, January 18, 2010

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Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Iceland’s credit risk may rise “considerably” as the island faces the threat of a shelved emergency bailout and a government collapse, Standard & Poor’s said.
“The risk is there that the program will fall apart and with that, the downside risks would increase very considerably,” Moritz Kraemer, S&P’s managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said in a Jan. 15 telephone interview. If the outlook for the bailout program doesn’t improve, “it’s quite possible” the government will collapse...
http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=axVdWLT3aee0&pos=14

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