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ThinkstockDespite Wednesday night’s deal to raise the debt ceiling and reopen the government, a downgrade in the credit rating of the United States may still be on the table, says a report in the...
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ThinkstockA bipartisan deal was reached to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling on Wednesday. While this provides immediate relief, the agreement is only a short reprieve. Funding...
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ThinkstockThe big banks have gone to considerable lengths to mend the weaknesses that they were in before, during and after the recession. The public perception of the big banks is not very highly...
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U.S. National Park ServiceThe recession was followed by a call from Meredith Whitney that there could be waves of municipal defaults in the years ahead. The bankruptcy of Detroit only brought that...
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ThinkstockSaginaw County, which is more than an hour’s drive north of Detroit, and Genesee County, about the same distance away, cancelled bond offerings, supposedly because the collapse of Detroit...
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ThinkstockWith an improving economy, an unexpected but welcome increase in tax revenue and federal spending down, largely because of budget battles, the U.S. financial situation has improved, not by...
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ThinkstockDuke Energy Corp. (NYSE: DUK) may soon recapture some of its credit profile that had eroded for more than the past year, since its Progress merger. Moody’s Investors Service has now...
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ThinkstockSmithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE: SFD) should be enjoying a nice day-after in the sun now that it has answered activist investors with a new buyout offer for the company. The problem is that...
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ThinkstockAlcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) has just lost its investment grade corporate credit rating after a downgrade from Moody’s. The aluminum giant and DJIA component is now a junk bond rating as its...
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ThinkstockThe latest recovery in the price of gold is not helping gold miners as much as some investors might think. In fact. Moody’s Investors Service just issued a corporate credit rating...
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ThinkstockMeredith Whitney was applauded for her call about the impending doom of the banking sector ahead of the recession, but she has been criticized ever since her call for billions and billions...
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ThinkstockOne of the big ideas floating around for the past year or so is the securitization of single-family rental payments into securities that could then sold to investors. If this sounds like a...
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courtesy of Sony Corp.Consumer electronics maker Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) is just one step away from having its bonds rated as “junk” by ratings firm Moody’s Investors Service. The ratings agency...
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In a fascinating review of the US sub-prime automobile lending market, Moody’s sees signs that today’s market is eerily similar to the early stage of growth in sub-prime auto loans in the 1990s....
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Moody’s issued its cleverly titled “Summer of Discontent” analysis of the global economic situation. The comments about the next quarter were dire, but, as usually, the rating agency was late...
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