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Term ABS Credit Action Report: September 2004
This paper highlights credit actions taken by Fitch Ratings in the non mortgage term asset-backed securities ABS market. Overall, stabilizing economic fundamentals continued to exert a positive influence on rating activity and collateral performance in September. With no downgrades to report for the month, upgrades in the third quarter outpaced...
Tags: Investment, asset based security, downgrade, tobacco, asset, performance, security
White papers 2004-10-29
Good News Is No News? The Impact of Credit Rating Changes on the Pricing of Asset-Backed Securities
The paper assess the impact of credit ratings on the pricing of structured financial products, using a sample of more than 1300 changes in Moody's or Standard and Poor's (S&P) ratings of U.S. asset-backed securities ABS. The study finds that rating downgrades tend to be accompanied by negative returns and...
Tags: Investment, Pricing, asset based security, downgrade, bond, pricing strategy, asset, security
White papers 2004-06-01
Review and Outlook: 2002-2003 U.S. Private Mortgage Insurance
The report has revised its Rating Outlook for the U.S. private mortgage insurance industry to Negative from Stable. Generally, the report defines a negative industry outlook as the expectation that rating downgrades will exceed upgrades during a 12-18 month time frame and that the number of downgrades are expected to...
Tags: Insurance, downgrade, insurance company, industry
White papers 2003-01-29
Does The Community Reinvestment Act Influence Lending? An Analysis Of Changes In Bank Low-Income Mortgage Activity
Article talks about the comparison of the lending behavior of banks experiencing a CRA downgrade to the lending behavior of several thousand banks that do not experience a downgrade. It is hypothesize that banks would respond to regulatory and public pressure exerted as a result of the downgrade by...
Tags: Mortgages, Financial services, Federal Reserve Bank, downgrade, mortgage, hypothesis, bank, adjustment, analysis, performance, financial
White papers 2000-05-01
Financial Rating Changes and Market Discipline in Property-Liability Insurance
This paper analyzes premium growth surrounding ratings changes for a large panel of property-liability insurers. Consistent with substantial market discipline for rated insurers, univariate comparisons and fixed effects regressions generally provide evidence of significantly lower revenue growth for insurers that experienced rating downgrades in the year of and the year...
Tags: Insurance, downgrade, insurance company, revenue, analysis, financial
White papers 2000-02-01

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Fitch Lowers Bank of America's IDR to 'AA-'; Upgrades Countrywide's IDR to 'A+'
CHICAGO & NEW YORK -- Fitch has downgraded the Issuer Default Rating IDR of Bank of America N.A. BANA and Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) to `AA-' and `A+' respectively. Fitch affirms the short-term IDRs of both companies at 'F1+'. All ratings have been removed from Rating Watch Negative....
Articles 2008-07-16
Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., Tractor Supply Co., Regis Corp., Baxter International, Inc. and Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P
CHICAGO -- Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (NYSE: MHP), Tractor Supply Co. (Nasdaq: TSCO), Regis...
Articles 2008-07-16
Makemake -- or Easter bunny -- enters book of space names
PARIS AFP — Pluto -- downgraded two years ago to the status of a dwarf planet -- has an exotically-named chum on the fringes of the Solar System. The Paris-based International Astronomical Union IAU has decided to honour a Kuiper Belt object, 2005 FY9, with the name of...
Articles 2008-07-15
BoJ leaves rates unchanged, downgrades outlook
TOKYO, July 15, 2008 AFP — Japan's central bank on Tuesday left its super-low interest rates unchanged as it cut its growth forecasts for Asia's largest economy for the second time in less than three months. The policy board decided unanimously to leave interest rates at 0.5 percent,...
Articles 2008-07-15
Fitch downgrades aircraft lease securitisations outlook
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Ratings agency Fitch Ratings has revised downward its outlook for the aircraft lease securitisations sector. The company said that its asset performance outlook for aircraft securitisations has been changed to 'declining', and the rating outlook for the sector is now...
Articles 2008-07-15
A.M. Best Downgrades and Withdraws Ratings of Fidelity Bank of Florida, National Association
OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the bank deposit rating BDR to "bbb+" from "a-"and issuer credit rating ICR to "bbb+" from "a-" of Fidelity Bank of Florida, National Association FBF (Merritt Island, FL). The outlook for the ratings has been revised to negative from stable. ...
Articles 2008-07-15
Fitch Releases June Summary of Latin America Rating Actions
CHICAGO -- The following is the comprehensive list of Fitch Rating's 100 Latin America national scale rating changes for the month of June, which include: upgrades, downgrades, Outlook revisions, Watch changes and withdrawn ratings. These rating changes were previously announced via separate press releases in Spanish or Portuguese. ...
Articles 2008-07-15
Summits Research Releases Comments on HD, WFC, SGP, CL, and SAF
CHICAGO, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Seven Summits Research releases NewsBites on key stocks. Seven Summits Strategic Investments NewsBites are available to all investors at: http://www.go7now.com/nb/0715Y (Note: You may have to copy this link into your browser then press the [ENTER] key.) Today's Seven...
Articles 2008-07-15
Fitch Downgrades Appalachian Regional Healthcare to 'BB-'; Outlook Stable
NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has downgraded to 'BB-' from 'BB+' the rating on $74,510,000 Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority refunding and improvement revenue bonds (Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc.), series 1997. The Rating Outlook is Stable. The downgrade to 'BB-' reflects the effect of two strikes at Appalachian...
Articles 2008-07-15
Fitch Downgrades & Removes Cloverie Plc 2006-3 from Watch Negative
NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has downgraded and removed from Rating Watch Negative the sole class of notes issued by Cloverie Plc 2006-3 (Cloverie 2006-3). The following rating action is effective immediately: --$40,000,000 class D notes to 'CC' from 'B-'. Fitch originally place Cloverie 2006-3 on...
Articles 2008-07-14
Fitch Downgrades & Withdraws Option One's Resi Servicer Ratings
NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has downgraded and subsequently withdrawn the following ratings on Option One Mortgage Corporation's Option One residential servicer ratings: --Residential primary servicer rating for subprime product to 'RPS3' from 'RPS2+'; --Residential special servicer rating to 'RSS3' from 'RSS2+'. In addition,...
Articles 2008-07-14
A.M. Best Downgrades Ratings of Kingsway Financial Services Inc., Kingsway America Inc. and Operating Subsidiaries
OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the issuer credit ratings ICR to "bb-" from "bb" of Kingsway Financial Services Inc. KFSI (Mississauga, Ontario) and Kingsway America Inc. KAI (Elk Grove Village, IL). Concurrently, A.M. Best has downgraded the financial strength ratings FSR to B+ Good from...
Articles 2008-07-14
Fitch Downgrades & Removes Cloverie Plc 2005-81 from Watch Negative
NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has downgraded and removed from Rating Watch Negative the sole class of notes issued by Cloverie Plc 2005-81 (Cloverie 2005-81). The following rating action is effective immediately: --$15,000,000 class B notes to 'CC' from 'BB+'. Fitch originally placed Cloverie 2005-81 on...
Articles 2008-07-14
Fitch Downgrades & Removes Cloverie Plc 2006-1 from Watch Negative
NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has downgraded and removed from Rating Watch Negative the sole class of notes issued by Cloverie Plc 2006-1 (Cloverie 2006-1). The following rating action is effective immediately: -- $10,000,000 class A notes downgraded to 'CCC' from 'BBB-'. Fitch originally placed Cloverie...
Articles 2008-07-14
Fitch Downgrades & Removes Cloverie Plc 2005-79 from Watch Negative
NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has downgraded and removed from Rating Watch Negative the sole class of notes issued by Cloverie Plc 2005-79 (Cloverie 2005-79). The following rating action is effective immediately: --$15,000,000 class S-4 notes to 'CC' from 'BBB'. Fitch originally placed Cloverie 2005-79 on...
Articles 2008-07-14
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