Moody's: France's rate Outlook at risk

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PARIS - Moody's a sustained increase in which income coupled with weakening of economic growth could its debt warned France on Monday its ratings Outlook damage,'s second largest economy its AAA status lose fueling concern the euro area.

Worry about a high budget deficit and banks have drawn France exposure to other difficult European government bonds, in the line of fire of the bloc, crisis, despite the Government force that she needed everything, to protect their best note would do.

Moody's announced mid-October that France could put it an AAA rating on negative Outlook in three months, if the costs for rescue helps French banks and other members of the eurozone its budget overburdened.

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On Monday, the rating agency said that a deterioration in the French bond market-amid fears the sovereign debt crisis to the eurozone core-views, was a threat to the credit has been distributed but not at this stage to its actual assessment.

"Increased borrowing costs for a period of time the fiscal challenges that would reinforce French Government amid a deteriorating growth prospects, with negative credit impact, faces keep", said senior credit officer Alexander Kockerbeck in Moody's pro credit Outlook dated 21 November.

The premium investors calculate on French ten-year debt in comparison, the German equivalent was up but also short of 202 bps last week met about 20 basis points to 163 bps after the publication of Moody's continued to report, a new euro era high.

Moody's said, that to record levels last week, almost twice as much as Germany France pays for long-term funding, adding that increase in income as one a 100 basis-point additional 3 billion euros per year is refinancing costs.

Many investors have already discounted a downgrade to France's AAA rating, given the expectations that its economy will be recession next year.

"In the current environment people France be downgraded, expected", said Olivier Bizimana from Morgan Stanley, say, that it probably appeared at Moody would work over France's stable Outlook, if nothing changed. "The budgetary position is likely still worse than other triple a countries and on top of that you have the back up to a Central Bank."

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France AFT debt agency said on Monday, that despite the recent increase of which results in proliferation of French scale of German guilt, his average medium - and long-term, remained close to historically low levels the financial costs.

"For the first 11 months of the year, it amounted to 2.78 percent, the (second) lowest level since the creation of the euro, after observed 2.53 percent in 2010," AFT of the Reuters news agency in a statement.

Economists said however, that France you will be sucked into a "Tax case risked" where growth slowing required more austerity measures, which, in turn, further slowing growth.

"If you have interest rates that it increase resources, on top of that you have vicious circle, where it is almost impossible to stabilise the trajectory of debt and pressure could add to the evaluations," Bizimana said.

The French Government recently cut its growth forecast for the next year by 1%, 1.75%, but most private economists consider, that still much too optimistic.

Budget Minister Valerie Pecresse said that more austerity measures, take the Government would not notice a 65 billion euro package cuts this month say a budget buffer of 6 billion euros next year there space to breathe would be, even if growth below average.

"We especially must avoid measures, to overthrow that country into a recession" said Pecresse.

But Moody's said, that slows down growth combined with rising interest rates hard for France would make it the target of 5.7 percent cut the budget deficit from an estimated at the end of this year to breach the EU limit of 3 per cent by the year 2013 hit.

"The French social model can be not financed, when the French economy is not persisted potential." With further slowdown of GDP growth that the political importance of further savings in this case would be tested for the Government, ", said note from Moody's on Monday."

In a research report on Monday of the stress in euros said JP Morgan David Mackie, zone bond markets increases the need for a dramatic response from policy-makers.

"Not surprisingly, all eyes are on the ECB as the only institution capable of quick and determined, step" he said, adding the ECB would begin to intervene also core countries in the bond markets.

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France's Christine Lagarde leads IMF race

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WASHINGTON South Africa's Trevor Manuel decided the race for the IMF make top job on Friday, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde of an even firmer favorite nominated submit only a few hours before the deadline.

Emerging market powers such as Russia, India, and China, that they want to have declared an end to Europe's grip on the top job at the international lender, is calling on a Pact, in European hands of the IMF and the World Bank is run by an American.

"It is important to understand that decisions relating to the world of politics take place." Against this background, I have decided not to me, "Manuel, a respected former Finance Minister, told a press conference."

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He said it would be "unglucklichsten.", if we a European end with that of the EU is bound

The United States and Europe hold 48 percent of the vote at the International Monetary Fund, emerging Nations only 12 per cent.

With LaGarde lobbying African officials in Lisbon about her candidacy and the window for the nomination include Friday's emerging markets magazine reported earlier, that South Africa would call Manuel for the job.

Treated Manuel, the largest economy of Africa sent for a decade, has long considered an ideal candidate been touted to developing countries and had many seen as he only other declared rival Lagarde, Mexican Central of chief Agustin Carstens, whose policy views as too conservative by many of his colleagues emerging market are considered win more support than that.

LaGarde, a skilled negotiators with practical experience in the euro-zone debt crisis, is seen 2008 payment arbitration as clear favorite despite a legal investigation of their role in a hang over her candidacy.

A top French Court on Friday delayed until July 8 his decision on a formal investigation of the allegations by opposition left-wing MEPs, that she abused their authority for the authorization of a pay 285 million euro with a businessman friend of President Nicolas Sarkozy brought to open.

A French Finance Ministry official told of Reuters that legal recourse was usually and LaGarde earlier attended reporters in Lisbon, where the African Development Bank's annual meeting, that she was confident about the result.

She has denied any wrongdoing in the case and told the daily Le Parisien in comments published on Friday, when a request comes ahead she would only to be called as a witness and not have to defend themselves in court.

LaGarde has India in Brazil, and China for their merits for the IMF job tout flown and bears this weekend on their tour, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. On Thursday she spent Twitter an hour with the general public about her candidacy.

The African Union said Thursday it wanted to see a non-European in the order, but powers have failed emerging market to make coalesce behind a candidate of Europe's traditional grip during the work in question.

"Lagarde is the favorite,", said Jacques RELAND of global policy Institute. "The BRICS are still right and I do not believe that a new candidate from South Africa her candidacy given the importance of Europe and the United States can threaten votes."

The Fund names new Chief Executive on June 30.

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A Reuters message, the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in talks was to leave their jobs next year to head of the World Bank made it even more to get LaGarde appearance the IMF job, reaffirming the tradition of a European to the Fund and an American at the World Bank.

However, the report scored the State Department Thursday.

"The story is completely wrong," said Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines in the United Arab Emirates, where Clinton was involved in the international negotiations on Libya.

Four of the IMF 10 Managing Director since 1946 French but Lagarde, 55, would be the first woman in the job.

A former medal-winning synchronized swimmer and high-flying corporate lawyer, played a key role in Europe's battle to restore economic crisis and is France's G20 negotiators on economic issues as it holds the one-year Presidency.

An economics PhD from the University of Chicago, a paradise for the advocates of deregulation and laissez-faire economics has Carstens.

The associated press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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