sovereign
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S&P affirms Indonesia’s BBB long-term sovereign credit rating, and expects the government to keep its fiscal deficit below the legal ceiling of 3% of GDP.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Documents in the files revealed his firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, had a plan in 2013 "to buy a prince", as Andriesz puts it, and exploit Andrew's contacts with wealthy individuals and sovereign institutions.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Brent crude prices jumped close to 4% in response, while the dollar strengthened and sovereign debt fell across the globe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
In our conversation, he outlines his "Patchwork" concept, in which traditional nation-states are replaced with a global network of sovereign mini-countries owned by shareholders and competing for citizens like a business competes for customers.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
It violated the central premise of the revolutionary legacy—namely, that the people at large were the sovereign source of all political authority.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
These developments don’t threaten dollar dominance today or tomorrow, but they reflect a genuine, if gradual, de-risking impulse among sovereigns who have concluded that some diversification away from dollar concentration is prudent.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
Tim Ash, senior strategist at RBC Bluebay Asset Management, pointed out in a posting on X, that sovereigns do not request swap lines lightly.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 20, 2026
Spreads on the best-rated Middle Eastern 10-year dollar-denominated sovereigns were as much as 15 basis points wider early last week before moving back down Thursday.
From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026
Supply also slowed after massive issuance by numerous sovereigns this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Anyone tempted by those thousand sovereigns had better find a place neither on land nor on water.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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