Moody’s

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...

Argentina held its first round of presidential elections on October 25. The candidate representing the currently ruling party won the election, as expected. However, the margin of his victory was much lower than originally anticipated. This led Moody's Investors Service to upgrade the country...

Standard & Poor’s downgraded Japan’s credit rating from AA- to A+. The firm justified the demotion as a sign of disapproval of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe’s economic strategy – often called Abenomics. Shares of the iShares MSCI Japan ETF (NYSE: EWJ), WisdomTree Japan...

Nobody saw this one coming, as all eyes were looking elsewhere. Simon Property Group Inc (NYSE: SPG) CEO and Chairman David Simon was very clear last week when he presented at the Barclays investor conference that he had no plans on investing in Australian mall assets, despite reports fueled by...

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...