A round-up of the top stories from around the specialist financial media, including news that S&P has downgraded Europe's bailout fund
S&P downgrades eurozone bail-out fund
Standard & Poor’s on Monday stripped the eurozone’s bail-out fund of its AAA credit rating, potentially constraining its ability to contain the region’s debt crisis and focusing attention on efforts to create a more robust successor.
Moody's Investors Service on Monday said that its stable outlook on France's triple-A credit rating remains under pressure and that it will assess it during the first quarter.