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Jump to full article: NewsEdge, 1999-06-21
Author: Agence France Presse via NewsEdge
Intro: Two
major credit ratings agencies Friday gave Japan Tobacco Inc. high ratings after
it became the world's third largest tobacco company.
Moody's Investors Service gave the giant, which holds a monopoly on cigarette
production in Japan, a high quality "Aa3" rating. Standard and Poor's
assigned the firm an "AA-minus" rating.
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