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Ratings agencies

DBRS lay-offs add to ratings agencies’ woes

By Paul J Davies in London

Published: January 10 2008 02:27 | Last updated: January 10 2008 02:27

Ratings agencies have cut more than 500 jobs this week, with an expectation for more to come, as the prospects for complex debt ratings wither.

Dominion Bond Rating Service, the Canadian agency, compounded news of job losses at Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s on Monday and Tuesday, with the news that it would pull out of Europe only a year after opening offices on the continent.

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