California’s Bond Credit Rating Slashed by Moody’s (Update1)
bloomberg.com 7/20/2009 — July 14 (Bloomberg) -- California’s credit rating, the lowest of all U.S. states, was cut for the second time in as many weeks amid lawmakers’ failure to close a $26 billion deficit that left the most-populous state issuing IOUs to creditors. Moody’s ...

Moody’s: CRE Prices Off 41 Percent from Peak, Off 3% in August
calculatedriskblog.com 10/20/2009 — From Bloomberg: U.S. Commercial Property Values Fall 3% in August (ht James) The Moody’s/REAL Commercial Property Price Indices fell 3 percent in August from July, bringing the market’s decline to almost 41 percent since its peak in October 2007, ...

Moody’s Property Index Resumes ‘Steep’ Fall in July (Update2)
bloomberg.com 9/22/2009 — Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Commercial real estate prices in the U.S. resumed a “steep decline” in July after showing signs of leveling off in June, Moody’s Investors Service said, as credit restrictions curtail lending and push landlords toward default. ...

Moody’s: CRE Prices Off 36 Percent from Peak, Off 1% in June
calculatedriskblog.com 8/20/2009 — From Bloomberg: U.S. Commercial Property Values Fall as Rent Declines Forecast The Moody’s/REAL Commercial Property Price Indices fell 1 percent in June and are down 36 percent from their October 2007 peak, Moody’s Investors Service said in a report ...

Moody’s Intrinsic Value
widemoatinvesting.wordpress.com 4/10/2009 — 2008 was a tough year for Moody’s Corporation, with free cash flow (FCF) levels falling to 2003 levels, or $450 million. In our previous analysis, we argued that Moody’s economic moat has shrunk over the last couple of years, as its credit ratings for ...

Banks don’t just have an asset problem, says Moody’s
hf-implode.com 26 days ago — "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 ...

The Problem at Moody’s
baselinescenario.com 10/21/2009 — Kevin Hall of McClatchy has an article about Moody’s that goes beyond the usual — giving AAA ratings to products “structured by cows” and taking money from the cows (actually, the “cows” comment was from S&P). He documents how Moody’s forced out ...

Reducing Deficit Key to US Rating: Moody
cnbc.com 10/22/2009 — The United States, which posted a record deficit in the last fiscal year, may lose its Aaa-rating if it does not reduce the gap to manageable levels in the next 3-4 years, Moody's Investors Service said on Thursday. The U.S. government posted a ...

Moody’s Sees Slow Recovery for Securitization Industry
hf-implode.com 9/9/2009 — " Collateral performance within the US securitization market will remain weak well into 2011 before achieving any kind of recovery, according to Moody’s Investors Service."

Buffett Dumps Moody’s (MCO, BRK-A)
247wallst.com 7/23/2009 — Moody’s Corporation (NYSE: MCO) just got a rather interesting insider selling shares, none other than Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A). The listed entities were Berkshire itself, National Indemnity, OBH, and GEICO. The ...