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The agency reviewed the ratings of four Bulgarian banks, including the country's second-largest lender by assets DSK Bank, owned by Hungary's banking group OTP. Moody's confirmed DSK Bank's D+ financial strength rating, which was on review, but changed...
Tags: Raiffeisenbank Bulgaria, Moody's Investors Service, currency deposit, financial strength, foreign currency, deposit rating, negative outlook, Bulgaria, Sofia, Credit rating, Business Finance, Credit, Asia Universal Bank, Credit rating agencies, MBIA, Moody's
This week, Fitch Ratings removed the negative watch that was on the V.I...Public Services Commission to increase the base electric rate helped the utility keep its current ratings...BBB" and its subordinate bonds at "BBB-" and had the bonds on a negative...
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Fitch Ratings has cut its rating on regional banker Whitney Holding Corp. citing its nonperforming assets, much of them related to Florida real estate. The ratings house said Tuesday that Whitney's long-term issuer default rating had been dropped to BBB...
Tags: Fitch Ratings Inc., India, Whitney Holding Corp., negative outlook, TRW Automotive Inc., TRW Automotive Holdings Corp., ratings agency, BBB, public finances, First Horizon National Corp.
Miners and banks have led the decline, as fears increase once more above the depth and length of the global recession, with some of the concern now shifting to the health of sovereign balance sheets and the continuing ability of governments to stimulate...
Tags: credit rating, rating agency, AAA, aaa rating, negative outlook, debt level
Moody's Investor Service today issued a report entitled "Negative for Israeli banking system." The report cited the expected slowdown in the domestic economy and the impact of the global crisis as the reasons for its negative outlook.
Tags: global crisis, negative outlook, Israeli, Moody's Investor Service
The rating agency put the country’s double A plus rating on negative outlook on concerns over that the size of the current account deficit, which reached 8 per cent of gross domestic product last year, could restrict the country’s economic policy flexibility.
Tags: New Zealand, credit rating, foreign currency, currency rating, Standard & Poor’s, rating agency, negative outlook
Recession prompts negative outlook for health care A new report from Moody's Investors Service assigns a negative outlook to all major health care sectors, including hospitals, health insurers and medical device companies. "While each of these sectors...
Tags: Moody's Investors Services, health care, negative outlook
Same-store sales, or sales in stores open at least one year, are a key metric of a retailer's fiscal health because they measure growth at established stores rather than newly opened ones. Department-store operators have suffered as consumers cut back...
Tags: Fitch Ratings, Manulife Financial Corp., Moody, negative outlook
Monday night, with Sony set to reduce investment in electronics. Late yesterday the world's second-largest maker of consumer electronics said it would also cut 8000 jobs as an acute downturn in the economy hurts profitability. Earlier in the day the...
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Standard & Poor's (S&P) has revised its outlook on glass container maker Ardagh Glass to stable from positive and also confirmed a B+ rating on its debt. The outlook revision reflects its view that softening demand and high energy prices are likely to...