Inspiring confidence?
The European Commission's reaction to the Standard & Poor’s credit rating downgrade of Greece to “junk” status:
From the IHT.“Who is Standard & Poor’s by the way?” asked Amadeu Altafaj, the spokesman for E.U. Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn, as he took the podium at a regular midday news briefing at the European Commission.
Mr. Tardio later appeared to try to counter any perception he had questioned the ratings agency’s decision on Greece. “I was asking myself,” Mr. Tardio said in explaining his earlier remarks. “I’m not an expert on credit rating agencies.”
Getting angry at press conferences is not exactly likely to boost market confidence in Greek government bonds.
Now that S&P have downgraded Spain as well methinks he will trouble himself to find out
You would think that the spokesman for E.U. Monetary Affairs Commissioner would know what a rating agency is... LOL. He went before the press without a plan B, I guess.