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• Rating Agency Cuts Opinion on GM to "Strong Sell"

  BNET - 2009-05-11

  Standard & Poor's cut its opinion on GM to "Strong Sell," its lowest category. S&P Analyst Efraim Levy said GM is probably going bankrupt. GM President and CEO Fritz Henderson thinks so, too. by Jim Henry

  Tags: S&P, Agency, General Motors Corp., Financial Accounting, Finance, Jim Henry

• Ratings Agency Downgrades Ford to Chrysler, GM Level

  BNET - 2009-03-05

  Ford keeps saying it's better off than Chrysler and GM, but Standard & Poor's keeps saying, "not by much." The ratings agency downgraded Ford to the same level as its rivals. by Jim Henry

  Tags: S&P, Agency, Chrysler LLC, General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., Financial Accounting, Finance, Jim Henry

• Rating Agencies Take Due Fire

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-24

  Markos Kaminis (Wall St. Greek) submits: Yesterday's Congressional testimony was broken up into two sections, and it was clearly demarcated the good guys and the bad guys. The first group consisted of individuals either retired, let go or in direct competition with the Big Three rating agencies. These were...

  Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Agency, Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Markos Kaminis, McGraw-Hill Companies, Moody's Corp., NYSE Euronext, S&P, Seeking Alpha, US Market

• BRAZIL: BRAZIL RECEIVES INVESTMENT GRADE.

  - 2008-05-01

  According to anba: Rating agency Standard & Poor's, one of the main international rating agencies, announced yesterday (30) that it has increased the Brazilian credit rating to "investment grade". With this, Brazil enters the group of c According to anba: Rating agency Standard & Poor's, one...

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• Credit rating agency Standard & Poor has given Elizabeth Arden's credit rating a boost to "BB" compared to "B+" on the back of a cut in borrowings.(FINANCIAL NEWS)

  - 2007-09-21

  CREDIT RATING agency Standard & Poor has given Elizabeth Arden's credit rating a boost to "BB" compared to ... CREDIT RATING agency Standard & Poor has given Elizabeth Arden's credit rating a boost to "BB" compared to "B+" on the back of a cut in...

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• SEC to review role of Moody's, S&P, Fitch credit rating agencies in

  - 2007-09-10

  WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators said Friday they are reviewing the role credit-rating agencies played in the mortgage market debacle for borrowers with weak credit. The Securities and Exchange Commission "has begun a review of credit-rating agency policies and procedures," SEC spokesman John Nester said. The review...

  Tags: agency, MARKETING, Moody's Corp., S&P, SEC

• RATINGS AGENCY SOUNDS WARNING ON COVENANT-LITE LOANS

  - 2007-09-01

  "Clovenant-lite" loan structures will result in lower recoveries when borrowers default, according to a report published by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services. Covenant-lite structures, where lenders give up most of the traditional controls that banks had over their borrower's performance, have appeared in almost onethird of all new leveraged loan...

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• S&P Upgrades New York Life's Ratings to AAA, the Agency's Highest

  - 2007-08-16

  Upgrade Comes at a Time of Extreme Volatility in the Financial Markets

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• Subprime mess hits rating agencies; Shares of Moody's, S&P wilt as hybrid securities dry up.(News)

  - 2007-07-30

  Byline: Aaron Elstein Cascading prices of oceans of securities backed by subprime mortgages are exacting a heavy toll on the world's two top credit-rating agencies--Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's. Shares of New York-based M Byline: Aaron Elstein ...

  Tags: agency, bond, Moody's Corp., S&P, security

• S&P revises insurer capital adequacy model; Balance sheet needs may increase for some, agency says.(News)(Standard & Poor's Corp.)

  - 2006-11-27

  Byline: RUPAL PAREKH NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Corp.'s release this month of a revamped insurance capital model for global insurers and reinsurers could place added burdens on certain property/casualty insurers, while removing burdens from so Byline: RUPAL PAREKH NEW YORK-Standard...

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