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  • Fitch lowered Saudi Arabia’s credit rating on Monday, following the September 14 attack on Saudi Aramco’s oil infrastructure.
  • Agence France Trésor, the French sovereign debt office, has announced that it will increase its issuance of government bonds next year, which is partly being driven by the absorption of some of SNCF Réseau’s debt.
  • An increase in the consumption tax rate will hit Japan’s economy, analysts warn. Alongside a strong yen and global growth fears, this is likely to push the Bank of Japan into further easing measures. With banks creaking under the strain of low rates, Japan’s central bank, under governor Haruhiko Kuroda, will have to concoct a delicate mix of stimuli. Reported by Jasper Cox, ahead of the Bank of Japan’s September meeting
  • The UK Treasury has started the search for the banks that will structure its second sukuk, planned for early next year.
  • Kristalina Georgieva, who is the new managing director of the International Monetary Fund from Tuesday, plans to expand the use of precautionary instruments, such as credit lines, to more countries.
  • Populist governments will be tempted to use the opportunity presented by record low yields to borrow money at close to zero interest rates to reverse austerity and fund major spending schemes, according to the authors of a study into long-term asset returns. Meanwhile, an economist elsewhere suggested lax monetary policy has meant sovereign credit default swap (CDS) prices are underrepresenting risks.