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NEW YORK -- Moody's Investors Service is expected to announce downgrades to large global banks that play an outsized role in the capital markets, due to "Eurozone weakness and elevated economic and market uncertainties," according to a research report published Monday by CreditSights .

The retail-sales report for January, which tops a busy week of data, will show whether consumers still are spending at elevated levels.

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More than a year after Republicans from House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio to presidential candidate Ron Paul of Texas warned that the Fed's second round of asset purchases risked a sharp acceleration in prices, the surge has failed to materialize.

Lenders have routinely delayed or blocked such transactions, known as short sales, in which they accept less from a buyer than the seller's outstanding loan.

A New York bond rating service has declined to lower Oklahoma's cost of borrowing in part because of the state's efforts to eliminate its income tax.

BHP Billiton reported a record revenues and strong earnings of $9.94 billion in the first half on the sustained Chinese demand for iron ore.

Equities research analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their price target on shares of Moodys Corporation from $43.00 to $45.00 in a research note issued to investors on Thursday.

Banks are offering delinquent homeowners $35,000 or more in cash to sell their properties for less than they owe - all in the name of clearing troubled mortgages off their books.

Credit investors are paying the most ever to protect against a default from RadioShack on concern that the consumer electronics retailer's emphasis on selling mobile devices will fail to revive its fortunes.

More than a year after Republicans from House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio to presidential candidate Ron Paul of Texas warned that the Fed's second round of asset purchases risked a sharp acceleration in prices, the surge has failed to materialize.

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Moody's Corporation Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year End 2011 Earnings Conference Call.

Moody's fourth quarter net dropped to $96.2 million. Ralph Lauren third quarter net was nearly unchanged at $169 million.

Moody's Corp net income fell 30 percent in the fourth quarter, missing Wall Street estimates, as expenses rose and companies backed away from issuing bonds during the European debt crisis.

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His argument: China and other cash-rich developing nations shouldn't have to rely on ratings agencies in the deeply indebted United States -- especially after they helped fuel the global crisis that plunged the U.S. and then Europe into economic turmoil.

Moody's Corporation will unveil its latest earnings on Wednesday, February 8, 2012.A The average estimate of analysts is for profit of 49 cents per share, a decline of 15.5% from the company's actual earnings for the same quarter a year ago.

Banks in Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Vietnam are among the "most exposed" in the Asia-Pacific region to a sudden worsening of Europe's sovereign debt crisis, Moody's Investors Service said.

Banks, accelerating efforts to move troubled mortgages off their books, are offering as much as $35,000 or more in cash to delinquent homeowners to sell their properties for less than they owe.

When Douglas Peterson, the new president of Standard & Poor's, talks about his firm, he repeats the words quality, integrity, and expertise over and again.