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1 hr ago | TheStreet.com

Big Banks Should Brace for Debt Downgrade: Moody's

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 .

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Related Topix: Financial Services, TheStreetcom, Media, TheStreet, Computers, Goldman Sachs, Investment Services, Cohen Group, Consulting

5 hrs ago | Medford Mail Tribune

Retail sales key to U.S. economic recovery

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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Related Topix: Financial Services

Sun Feb 12, 2012

Reuters

BRIEF: Moody's comments on Hyundai Steel's 2011 results

Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news , world news , business news , technology news , headline news, small business news , news alerts, personal finance , stock market , and mutual funds information available on Reuters.com, video , mobile , and interactive television platforms.

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Related Topix: Media, Medicine, Triad Hospitals, Computers, IT Services, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Thomson, Reuters, Financial Services, Mutual Funds, Personal Finance

The News Tribune

Bernanke proves his critics wrong about surge in inflation

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.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Ron Paul, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, John Boehner, Financial Services, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich

Journal Gazette

Homeowners get incentives to facilitate short sales

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.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Financial Services, Santa Ana, CA, San Marcos, CA

Fri Feb 10, 2012

Tulsa World

Moody's declines to boost Oklahoma's debt rating

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.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, US Politics, US News, Representative Mary Fallin, Republican, US House of Representatives, Tax, Mary Fallin, US Governors

Thu Feb 09, 2012

Ticker

Global Markets Look Beyond Greek Saga

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.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Fashion, Ralph Lauren, Designers, Time Warner, Media, Computers, Financial Services, Financial Markets

AmericanBankingNews.com

Moodys Corporation Share Price Target Raised to $45.00 by JPMorgan Chase & Co. Analysts

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.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Banking, JP Morgan Chase

Investopedia

Banks Looking To Buy Bad Mortgages

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.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Financial Services, Home Selling

Cape Cod Times

RadioShack bonds send distress signals

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.

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Related Topix: Retail, RadioShack, Financial Markets, Financial Services

Wed Feb 08, 2012

BusinessWeek

Bernanke-Led Economy Proves Critics Clueless About Fed Policies

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.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Ron Paul, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, John Boehner, Financial Services, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich

Seeking Alpha

Moody's Corporation's CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

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

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Related Topix: Financial Services

Ticker

U.S. Movers: CVS, Moody's, Time Warner, Walt Disney, Western Union

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

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Related Topix: Time Warner, Media, Computers, Retail, CVS, Financial Services

Reuters

UPDATE 3-Moody's misses estimates with lower profit

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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Related Topix: Financial Services, Financial Markets

Reuters

BRIEF-Moody's corrects the rating for ISIN AT0000A04S56 issued by Hypo Tirol Bank AG

Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news , world news , business news , technology news , headline news, small business news , news alerts, personal finance , stock market , and mutual funds information available on Reuters.com, video , mobile , and interactive television platforms.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Triad Hospitals, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Reuters, Financial Services, Mutual Funds, Personal Finance

Tue Feb 07, 2012

Boston.com

Entrepreneur pushes Chinese role in global credit

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.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Financial Services, Financial Markets, Hu Jintao

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Financial Stock in Trading Focus Ahead of Earnings

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.

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Related Topix: Hill International, Construction, Publishing, Media, McGrawHill Companies, Financial Services, Equifax, Paychex, Human Resources, Automatic Data Processing

Thanh Nein News

Moody's says Vietnam banks most exposed to Europe crisis

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.

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Related Topix: Financial Services

Mon Feb 06, 2012

The Washington Post

Banks Paying Homeowners a Bonus to Avoid Foreclosures: Mortgages

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.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Financial Services, Santa Ana, CA, Home Selling

CNN

S&P president: Why I'm still hopeful about Europe

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.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

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