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Moody's warns it may downgrade Spain
Colin Barr 2010-12-21 01:35It looks like Europe is about to get interesting again, and not in a good way.Moody's warned Wednesday it may downgrade Spain's credit rating, citing ...
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Moody's warns stimulus could trample Treasuries
Colin Barr 2011-01-18 07:28Moody's warned Thursday that the tax cuts enacted last month could push up U.S. borrowing costs and erode some of the dollar's global appeal.The ratin...
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Business as usual for Moody's and S&P
財富中文網 2009-10-12 05:33Ratings agencies played a substantial role in the market meltdown -- and real reform is a long ways off.By Colin BarrWhat to do with Wall Street's glu...
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Update: SEC drops Moody's fraud case
Colin Barr 2010-09-03 11:20The Securities and Exchange Commission let Moody's off the hook for failing to heed its own rating guidelines.The SEC blamed "uncertainty" tied to the...
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Buffett in the hot seat on Moody's and housing bust
Colin Barr 2010-06-05 01:53Warren Buffett said he wouldn't strip Moody's chief Raymond McDaniel of his job, arguing that neither he nor many others saw the housing bust coming.F...
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Japan downgrade: The beginning of the end?
Katie Benner 2011-02-01 03:27What a downgrade of Japanese debt by S&P could mean for the country's future and for the rest of the world.The timing of the downgrade of Japan's sove...
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GM's toughest sell may be its own stock
Doron Levin 2010-11-01 05:45If you're wondering whether to bet on the initial public offering of General Motors Co. expected sometime next month, a cross-section of opinion from ...
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S&P downgrades Ireland
Colin Barr 2010-08-27 12:43Standard & Poor's cut Ireland's sovereign debt rating by a notch to double-A-minus, citing the massive cost of patching up the hemorrhaging Irish bank...
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Where's the next Dubai?
Colin Barr 2009-12-04 12:24The debt-fueled development boom that fueled the Dubai World crisis is creating headaches in Greece, Romania and other small European states as well.B...
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Even the bears aren't bearish enough on Spain's coming sovereign debt problem
Daryl G. Jones 2010-05-07 10:32We often say that investors can be bullish, bearish, or not enough of either. "Our debt is clean, we will not have to ask for help," said Elena Salgad...