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Moody's Downgrades Five Dubai Companies

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:04:08 +0000

DUBAI -- Moody's Investor Services, the credit ratings agency, Wednesday downgraded five major Dubai-government-controlled companies after the emirate's finance department relinquished its obligations to the firms' debts in late October. In a statement, Moody's said it downgraded Dubai Holding ...

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Securities Docket A.M. News Wire for 2009-11-20

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:55:00 +0000

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

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:55:00 +0000

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Subprime Justice

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:40:48 +0000

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 had sold the debt to funds. Much of it was ...

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Moody’s May Cut Goldman Debt in $450 Billion Review

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:13:37 +0000

"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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S&P raises fears over health of some banks

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:49:29 +0000

Published: November 23 2009 19:23 | Last updated: November 23 2009 22:20 A study by Standard & Poor’s, one of the world’s leading credit rating agencies, has raised questions over the financial strength of some of the biggest banks ahead of new rules that could require them to raise more funds. ...

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Video: Ohio Files Suit Against Credit Agencies

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:01:28 +0000

The attorney general of Ohio filed a lawsuit against Standard and Poor's, Moody's Corp. and Fitch Inc. The AG alleges that the agencies inflated ratings on risky mortgage-backed securities.

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Baselines, Counterfactuals and the Stimulus

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:02:42 +0000

Apropos the post on evaluating the impact of the stimulus, here is graphical depiction of what IHS Global Insight, Macroeconomic Advisers, and Moody's predicted under the counterfactual of no stimulus against the w/stimulus outlook (from NYT ). Source: J. Calmes and M. Cooper, "New ...

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Ohio Pension Funds Sue Credit Rating Agencies

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:49:01 +0000

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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Worst Is Yet To Come For Insurance Companies

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:20:08 +0000

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 Ratings said. Losses on investments in apartment ...

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