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securitiesdocket.com - 38 hours ago
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The credit rating agencies have been bulletproof from
litigation for years, but new attacks keep coming. Today,
Reuters reports, Ohio’s AG sued Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch Ratings, claiming that they provided misleading credit ratings that led to hundreds of millions of losses ...
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Ohio Pension Funds Sue Credit Rating Agencies
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thebigmoney.com - 5 days ago
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We know what you’re thinking: Why isn’t anyone
in jail? By the summer of last year, it
was clear that the subprime housing market was a catastrophe. Junk mortgages had been offered to janitors or day-care-center operators, and financial institutions ...
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Subprime Justice
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securitiesdocket.com - 43 hours ago
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Former McKesson Chairman McCall Convicted of Securities Fraud
http://bit.ly/40YVVg # Denis McInerney of Davis Polk Selected as
Chief of DOJ Fraud Section http://bit.ly/3ElOEH # Informant says Galleon tips came from Asia http://bit.ly/G4mLK # FOX Business Video: Analyzing the ...
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Securities Docket A.M. News Wire for 2009-11-20
securitiesdocket.com - 43 hours ago
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Former McKesson Chairman McCall Convicted of Securities Fraud
http://bit.ly/40YVVg # Denis McInerney of Davis Polk Selected as
Chief of DOJ Fraud Section http://bit.ly/3ElOEH # Informant says Galleon tips came from Asia http://bit.ly/G4mLK # FOX Business Video: Analyzing the ...
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Securities Docket A.M. News Wire for Nov. 20, 2009
hf-implode.com - 2 days ago
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"Debt sold by Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group
Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. is among the
$450 billion of securities that Moody’s Investors Service said it may downgrade."
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Moody’s May Cut Goldman Debt in $450 Billion Review
globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com - 3 days ago
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com —
Fitch is warning Insurers Face $23 Billion Loss
on Commercial Property . U.S. life insurers, a group
led by MetLife Inc. and Prudential Financial Inc., may lose as much as $22.6 billion on investments in commercial real estate through 2011, Fitch ...
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Worst Is Yet To Come For Insurance Companies
ft.com - 12 days ago
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ft.com —
Banks around the world face increases in funding
costs that could cut profits and hit their customers
as they look to refinance $7,000bn-plus in short-term debt expiring in the next three years with longer-dated bonds, according to research released ...
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Banks face increase in funding costs
hf-implode.com - 8 days ago
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"Both prime and non-conforming UK residential mortgage-backed securities
(RMBS) posted continued signs of stabilization in September, although
overall European RMBS performance remains uneven. UK prime residential mortgage-backed security (RMBS) performance continued to stabilize in September, ...
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Moody’s Sees Mixed Performance in UK, European RMBS
real-estate-and-urban.blogspot.com - 11 days ago
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I was surfing the MIT CRE web site
this afternoon, and the following picture caught my eye:
The MIT index is a hedonic transactions based index based sales from the NCREIF index, and it attempts to find price movements of a "typical" property. The ...
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Does the MIT transactions based commercial real estate ...
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com - 8 days ago
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MBIA's once pristine AAA-rating has now turned into
junk and no one wants to buy insurance from
the company, Floyd Norris writes in his latest column.
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Norris: A Lack of Rigor Costs MBIA
hf-implode.com - 11 days ago
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"he basic premise: The average maturities of new
debt issuance by Moody’s-rated banks around the world fell
from 7.2 years to 4.7 years over the last five years — the shortest average maturity on record.That means banks will face maturing debt of $10,000bn between now and the end of 2015, or ...
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Banks don’t just have an asset problem, says Moody’s
blog.ockhamresearch.com - 23 days ago
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Once thought inconceivable, an interesting trend was uncovered
in the October 29th The Wall Street Journal ,
there are a number of debt issuing firms foregoing the traditional credit rating process. In an article titled Credit Rating Now Optional, Firms Find , the Journal points out some ...
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Unrated Debt an Emerging Global Trend
ritholtz.com - 18 days ago
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Dump the dog, buy the thoroughbred: • Berkshire
Buys Burlington Northern in Buffett’s Biggest Takeover (Bloomberg) •
Buffett’s Berkshire Sells More Moody’s (Barron’s) Prior to the takeover, Berkshire owned 22.6% of Burlington ...
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Buffett Sells Moodys, Buys Burlington Santa Fe
hf-implode.com - 16 days ago
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hf-implode.com —
" The global speculative-grade default rate rose to
12.4 percent in October, the highest proportion of defaults
since the Great Depression, according to Moody’s Investors Service."
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Junk Default Rate Is Highest Since Great Depression
