Agnes T. Crane
Agnes T. Crane is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist, based in New York, where she covers capital markets and Latin America. She joined from Dow Jones Newswires, where she was an award-winning journalist who led a team of reporters covering the credit crisis. Before that she worked at Market News International in New York and as a freelancer contributing to The Deal, Advertising Age and other publications during her four year stint in Mexico. Agnes holds a BA from Temple University in Philadelphia where she studied History. Follow Agnes on Twitter @agnestcrane
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Recent stories
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Did Brazil miss a trick on Petrobras bond sale?
President Dilma Rousseff uses the oil giant for many nationalistic purposes, though strengthening domestic capital markets isn’t apparently one. Issuing a slice of this week’s $11 bln bond offering in reais, though costly, would at least have been a better sort of meddling.
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Rating cut says more about S&P than Warren Buffett
Standard & Poor’s has taken Berkshire Hathaway down a notch to AA. But the downgrade is due to changes in the rater’s methodology rather than Buffett’s firm doing something to make a default more likely. Some tweaks are fine. But S&P could end up making ratings more of a muddle.
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U.S. housing is both cheap and out of reach
It’s one of the few assets that look undervalued as stock and bond prices go through the roof. That’s ironic, considering the Fed’s bond-buying policy was designed in part to prop up housing. But tight lending standards make it hard to take advantage of the opportunity.
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