Moody’s

Moody's Ratings has affirmed the Baa2 long-term issuer and senior unsecured ratings of both Golub Capital BDC, Inc. (GBDC) and Blackstone Secured Lending Fund (BXSL) while revising the outlook on each from stable to negative. Moody’s cited rising leverage, weaker asset coverage buffers and...

Moody's Ratings has revised Blue Owl Capital's (NYSE:OWL) flagship private credit fund rating to negative, a sign of continued strain on the private credit space. The firm cut Blue Owl Credit Income Corp's (OCIC) rating to negative from stable in response to "significantly higher-than-peer...

Financial analyst Gary Black, the managing partner at the Future Fund LLC, has issued a bold take on the U.S. fiscal health, likening the nation's debt to corporate debt levels and calling it “fairly low.” What Happened: In a post on X, Black argued that the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio of...

A month has gone by since the last earnings report for Moody's (NYSE: MCO). Shares have added about 6.2% in that time frame, outperforming the S&P 500. Will the recent positive trend continue leading up to its next earnings release, or is Moody's due for a pullback? Before we dive into...

To gain an edge, this is what you need to know today. Prudent Investors Should Care Please click here for a chart of the federal deficit. Note the following: The chart goes back to 1900. The chart shows that large federal deficits are a relatively recent phenomenon. The chart shows...

Following Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.K. economy was expected to shrink. And it did. However, major investment firms haven't given up on London. For example, Andreessen Horowitz picked London as its international base. “This is a win for us,” said London & Partners...

Monday has been a bloodbath across assets. Money mangers, traders and retail participants alike are running around like goofballs trying to place capital in safe havens as uncertainty knocks a decade of hubris driven by central bank asset buying back to the ground where it belongs. Global...

The benchmark used to set the price of gold in London, known as the gold fix, may have been manipulated for 10 years by banks, according to Bloomberg. Professor Rosa Abrantes-Metz of New York University’s Stern School of Business and Albert Metz, managing director at Moody’s, said in a draft...

On a press release on Tuesday, Fitch announced that US’s government’s AAA rating will but put under “rating watch negative” as the discussion on the debt ceiling approaches the default deadline with impasse in Washington. Fitch is one of the nation's three largest credit rating agencies along...