S&P Ratings

In this CreditMatters TV segment, Standard & Poor’s Managing Directors Ping Chew and Christopher Lee discuss the implications of China’s first onshore bond default, both for China corporates and the local bond market, and why the Chinese government is allowing defaults.

As uncertainty hovers over the Ukraine, stock markets have shown increased volatility. Concurrently, spreads have been tightening. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Standard & Poor's Associate Director Gregg Moskowitz explains the key trends and data points.

Digital technologies continue to disrupt the core operations of traditional U.S. print companies. Standard & Poor’s outlook for the industry remains stable to declining despite companies’ attempts to diversify their operations into complementary services. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Associate Peter Bourdon explains the trends shaping the sector.

Standard & Poor's looks at ratings strengths and weaknesses of GCC (re)insurers. In this CreditMatters TV segment Standard & Poor's Managing Director Zeynep Holmes and Associate Director Ali Karakuyu discuss how GCC (re)insurers’ limited competitive position and very strong capital impact their ratings.

U.S. ABS prime auto loan performance remained strong last year due to tighter underwriting, strong recovery values, and lower unemployment levels. In 2014, Standard & Poor's expects performance to soften somewhat, specifically for captives. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Director Steve Martinez discusses our performance expectations for the next year and the ratings impact.

In this segment of U.S. Consumer, Retail, and Health Care Weekly, Standard & Poor's Director Rick Joy reviews the recent actions we took on McKesson Corp., J.C. Penney, Albertson’s, RadNet Management, Cintas, Lands’ End, Talbots, and Steak n Shake.

Covering noteworthy research produced by S&P analysts in the region, "Latin America Monday Morning Round-Up" provides investors with a quick credit overview to start their week. Senior Director, Jose Coballasi hosts this weekly segment of CreditMatters TV.

Standard & Poor’s recently revised its outlook on Long Island Power Authority, the nation’s second-largest public power utility as measured by revenues. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Senior Director David Bodek discusses the key factors driving our decision.

Recently, Standard & Poor’s took a rating action and revised its outlook on New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) transportation revenue bonds. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Director Joseph Pezzimenti discusses the key elements that contributed to our actions.

U.S. banks’ fourth-quarter earnings finished slightly higher than Standard & Poor's expected. However, we maintain our earnings outlook for the industry in 2014 and 2015. But credit leverage, instead of operating leverage, continued to bolster banks' bottom lines. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Managing Director Rodrigo Quintanilla discusses the challenges to growth facing banks.

In this edition of Extra Credit, Standard & Poor’s Senior Director Jane Ridley discusses the similarities and differences between Detroit and Chicago, and Senior Director Laura Kuffler-Macdonald explains our outlook for charter schools.

Although U.S. equities rebounded in February after a tough January, the reversal hasn’t dampened investors’ demand for investment-grade bonds. In this CreditMatters TV segment Standard & Poor’s Senior Director Nick Kraemer explains how equity and bond performance panned out last month.

After an extended period of optimism, emerging market sovereign bond markets have weakened. In this CreditMatters TV segment Sovereign Chief Rating Officer Moritz Kraemer explains why it is likely to be the domestic policy outlook that will determine the future trajectory of emerging economies', not the repercussions of Fed tapering.

In diesem CreditMatters TV Video erläutert Moritz Kraemer, Sovereign Chief Rating Officer bei S&P Ratings Services, weshalb die künftige Richtung der Ökonomien in den Schwellenländern weniger von den Auswirkungen des Tapering der Fed abhängt, sondern vielmehr von den politischen Maßnahmen der einzelnen Ländern selbst bestimmt sein wird.

The number of potential downgrades declined to 513 as of Jan. 31, 2014, from 519 as of Dec. 31, 2013. Potential downgrades are entities Standard & Poor's rates 'AAA' to 'B-' that have either negative rating outlooks or ratings on CreditWatch with negative implications. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Associate Director Gregg Moskowitz explains the key trends and data points.