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What pawnbrokers can teach central banks

Three decades ago, the club of triple A-rated American corporate borrowers was a busy place. About 60 big companies, ranging from Pfizer to General Motors, were deemed so “safe” that they held this coveted tag from the credit rating agencies.

No longer. Standard & Poor’s has just stripped the mighty ExxonMobil of its triple-A rank because of understandable concerns about falling oil prices and mounting energy sector debt.

This leaves just two — yes, two — American companies still in that triple-A club: the unlikely duo of Microsoft and healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson.

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吉蓮•邰蒂

吉蓮•邰蒂(Gillian Tett)擔任英國《金融時報》的助理主編,負責全球金融市場的報導。2009年3月,她榮獲英國出版業年度記者。她1993年加入FT,曾經被派往前蘇聯和歐洲地區工作。1997年,她擔任FT東京分社社長。2003年,她回到倫敦,成爲Lex專欄的副主編。邰蒂在劍橋大學獲得社會人文學博士學位。她會講法語、俄語、日語和波斯語。

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