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S&P: Home Prices May Drop Another 10%

Posted: November 16, 2010 at 7:13 am

S&P has issued a forecast which says home prices could drop another 10% through next year. The new research says that: "While U.S. home prices have stabilized considerably since the ...
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S&P Puts Primary Competitor On CreditWatch, Will Moody’s Retaliate?

Posted: June 29, 2010 at 9:35 pm

Moody's (NYSE: MCO) has done many bad things including leading investors in mortgage-backed securities astray by giving the risky instruments AAA ratings. Some observers even believe that the credit ...
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Greek Economy Will Not Recover Until 2017

Posted: May 18, 2010 at 11:05 am

Former Bank of England executive David G. Blanchflower said that a second bailout package for Europe in inevitable. He told Bloomberg, the Eurozone faces the euro’s “unstoppable” decline until it is at parity ...
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Contagion Brush Fire

Posted: May 6, 2010 at 11:31 am

“Each of the six banking systems Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Greece, the UK... faces different challenges, but the contagion risk could dilute these differences and impose very real, common threats ...
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The World’s Most Important Bond Investor Calls Ratings Agencies As Flawed

Posted: May 6, 2010 at 4:00 am

Bill Gross, the head investment officer of bond giant PIMCO and the most famous fixed-income investor in the world, dismissed Moody's (NYSE: MCO) and S&P as deeply flawed arbiters of investment ...
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Breaking Greece’s Back: Another S&P Downgrade?

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 10:44 am

The capital markets are already suspicious that Greece will not be able to close a bond support deal with other eurozone countries and the IMF. Ratings agency Fitch told Greece that ...
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Another Break In The Sovereign Debt Wall: S&P Warns On UK

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 6:15 am

S&P and other credit rating agencies haven't had anything positive to say about sovereign debt recently no matter what country they analyze. The latest is that S&P said that its outlook on ...
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S&P Index Change for West Pharmaceutical Services (WST, UNH, SIE)

Posted: February 26, 2008 at 5:57 pm

We do not cover every single index change, but we do cover the ones where it looks like it will impact individual stocks.  Standard & Poor's made an index change ...
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S&P Keeps Bond Reinsurance Rating Rigged Game Alive (ABK, MBI)

Posted: February 25, 2008 at 2:43 pm

S&P reaffirmed the "AAA" ratings for both MBIA (NYSE: MBI) and Ambac (NYSE: ABK).  S&P noted that MBIA was removed from CreditWatch and a negative outlook was assigned, meaning it ...
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Can Barron’s Save MBIA From Ambac’s Fate? (MBI, ABK)

Posted: January 21, 2008 at 9:28 am

There was an interesting article in this weekend's edition of Barron's.  The financial weekly bible is noting that, despite the turmoil and perhaps terminal verdict of bond insurers, there may ...
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US Investment Bank Ratings OK, Or So Says Moody’s (MCO, MHP, XLF, GS, MS, MER, LEH, BSC, C, BAC, JPM, WFC, WB)

Posted: August 29, 2007 at 11:57 am

Stocks Tickers: MCO, MHP, XLF, GS, MS, MER, LEH, BSC, C, BAC, JPM, WFC, WBYou will have to have a subscription in order to access the full article, but Moody's ...
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