credit rating

Concerns over ballooning debt

Looking outside the 'Big Three'

First downgrade since 1989

Amid political upheaval

Henderson Global Investors' chief executive Andrew Formica has warned the UK's credit rating could be put at risk by a Labour triumph at next month's general election.

Credit ratings agency Moody's has cut the rating of the Royal Bank of Scotland, amid fears its restructuring will 'heavily depress' profits.

Standard & Poor's has downgraded France's credit rating from AA+ to AA.