S&P Outlook Turns Negative on AIG Units, Ratings Downgrade Possible

November 6, 2008

  • November 6, 2008 at 7:29 am
    Good Hands says:
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    Where were the credit rating agencies while AIG was speeding toward a crash? NOW they are getting around to downgrading the company? Talk about parking ambulances at the bottom of the cliff instead of building a fence at the top. This doesn’t look like they are ‘independant’ voices we can depend on to monitor the financials of these companies.

  • November 6, 2008 at 1:20 am
    Observer says:
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    DUH – Really? Stick a fork in this. They’re done.

  • November 7, 2008 at 3:37 am
    Jeff says:
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    A great plan. Bail them out with the promise that they will sell their assets and pay us back. Then ignore them, waiting for S&P to downgrade them- forcing AIG to sell their assets for less than they could have gotten. Here’s a plan. Force AIG to sell their “core” assets. Make them sell the Lexington, for example.

  • November 7, 2008 at 4:33 am
    Unsympathetic says:
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    I’m sure that they haven’t sold assets because everybody’s waiting for them to get desperate and drop the prices – just like they are doing with their renewals these days. Tick…tick…tick…



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