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The World’s Safest Sovereign Debt: Update

Switzerland is a new entry this quarter after engaging in quantitative easing; Portugal has dropped out in the wake of a downgrade by S&P and is now ranked 14^th.
Before you ask, the U.K. is ranked 18^th, behind China (17^th).

Implied Ratings are calculated using a proprietary model developed by CMA and fed with CDS pricing data
from CMA DataVision.

Source: CMA DataVision Global Sovereign Credit Risk Report Q2-2009

Posted by jck on July 1st, 2009 at 1:23 pm 0 Comment

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