Moody's Offers Training Courses on CDO/S - After Getting 99% of Ratings Wrong
prudentinvestor.blogspot.com 7/8/2009 — In a world drowning in some 64.000 AAA rated CDO and CDS (credit debt obligations/swaps) Moody's has - 3 to 4 years late - but correctly recognised the public's demand for information on all these papers, posing a TRILLION risk for the entire financial globe. They must be eager to get out word ...

NY insurance official raises concerns over Moody's
reuters.com 9/21/2009 — Lilla Zuill NEW YORK (Reuters) - An official in the New York Insurance Department says insurance regulators from across the country are expected to discuss dropping Moody's Investors Service from a list of acceptable rating organizations at a meeting ...

Home prices won't regain peak this decade: Moody's
marketwatch.com 9/19/2009 — Alert Email Print By John Spence , MarketWatch BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Moody's Investors Service threw cold water on optimistic projections of a V-shaped recovery in the battered U.S. housing market, predicting it could take more than 10 years to get ...

Moody's Aims to Be Ahead on Defaults
online.wsj.com 3/10/2009 — Pilloried for missing credit problems in the nation's mortgage markets, credit-ratings firm Moody's Investors Service is trying to get ahead of corporate bankruptcies. The firm on Tuesday is publishing a list called the Bottom Rung, detailing the ...

Moody's cuts global junk default peak forecasts | Markets | Bonds News
reuters.com 8/6/2009 — LONDON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service has sharply lowered its peak default rate forecasts for speculative-grade companies thanks to a sharp narrowing in spreads and a re-opening of the high-yield bond market. The rating agency no longer ...

U.S. credit rating a solid triple-A: Moody's
reuters.com 6/23/2009 — TOKYO (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service said on Tuesday that the U.S. government's triple-A credit rating was safe but added that it could be at risk if Washington were unable to bring its public debt back to a downward trajectory. Financial ...

Greenlight's Einhorn says shorting Moody's | Markets | Markets News
reuters.com 5/28/2009 — * Greenlight Capital's Einhorn says shorting Moody's stock * Greenlight says credit ratings lost credibility * Einhorn says Moody's has negative net worth $900 mln * $7.2 mln Allied Capital short-sale gain goes to charity By Joseph A. Giannone NEW ...

Moody's Blues
angrybear.blogspot.com 10/19/2009 — Robert Waldmann This McClatchy article by Kevin G Hall seems important to me. It does rely a lot on accusations by disgruntled ex employees, but I guess that is unavoidable. The lede WASHINGTON -- As the housing market collapsed in late 2007, Moody's ...

Moody's may cut ratings on 23 U.S. regional banks | Industries | Financial Services & Real Estate
reuters.com 3/13/2009 — NEW YORK, March 12 (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service on Thursday said it may cut the bank financial strength ratings of 23 U.S. regional banks because the housing and economic crisis will lead to significantly higher credit losses than it earlier ...

Now Moody's Is Compensating By Being Too Negative
businessinsider.com 4/30/2009 — Moody's is getting beat up for not calling the recent crisis and rubber stamping ratings on the disastrous 'mortgage innovations'. I think this criticism is largely overplayed, in that everyone was drinking the Kool-Aid pre-crisis, so their errors are ...