**German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble —

We would like to speak to Mr. Moody in person.**

Bottom Caption — Who does not resist, will not exist. Rating agency Moody's put Germany on a negative watch on July 23, and that of 17 German banks on July 25.

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