Calls mount for bank and rating agency disclosure on Enron
The banks have until March 20 to answer a range of questions, and it is likely that top executives will be asked to testify before a committee probing Enron’s fall from grace.
The committee has also asked each rating agency to comment on speculation that they succumbed to pressure from investment banks not to lower Enron’s credit ratings in November 2001, when the company was in merger negotiations with rival US energy firm Dynegy. Although Enron bonds were trading as junk, and the stock price had plummeted from an all-time high of almost $90 a year earlier to just $4, the rating agencies took their time to downgrade Enron in line with market opinion.
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