EUROPE - Charlie McCreevy, EU commissioner for internal markets and services, has questioned the role played by credit rating agencies during the US sub-prime mortgage crisis.
Having already criticised the agencies for how slow they were in downgrading their credit ratings for structured finance backed up by sub-prime lending, McCreevy questioned the robustness of the ag...
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