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...“Japan’s trade position has improved in the past year as falling global commodity prices have lowered the value of imported goods and easing supply chains have boosted exports,” Moody’s Analytics wrote in...
...This week Vanke, a large state-backed developer based in Shenzhen, had its debt rating downgraded by Moody’s....
...The move by Fitch, which maintained the country’s A plus credit rating, follows a similar outlook downgrade from rival Moody’s Ratings in December....
...Moody’s downgraded state-backed developer Vanke’s offshore bonds earlier in the week but its Hong Kong shares have rallied 13.2 per cent since Monday....
...Hong Kong residents spent about HK$50bn in mainland China in 2023, estimated Heron Lim, an economist at Moody’s Analytics, about 12.5 per cent of his forecast total retail value for Hong Kong for the year...
...Additional reporting by William Sandlund in Hong Kong...
...Apart from their interiors, seeped in moody light and rich in dark corners and shadowy potential, their main amplifier in recent years has been their SoHo store, Roman and Williams Guild....
...The album begins with pianist Moran introducing “End of Innocence” with a sequence of moody chords and Shabaka pensive on clarinet....
...Additional reporting by Andy Lin and William Langley in Hong Kong...
...US stocks retreated on Tuesday, dragged lower by bank stocks after Moody’s cut the credit rating of several lenders and warned that higher costs could affect profitability....
...“The economy is resilient,” said Heron Lim, greater China economist at Moody’s Analytics. “But in terms of strong growth, that is still missing.”...
...About $5bn of African sovereign foreign currency bonds will become due this year, and a further approximately $6bn next year, according to Moody’s estimates....
...Moody’s said the review reflected the bank’s reliance on confidence-sensitive uninsured deposits and unrealised losses on held-to-maturity securities....
...Glass wrote her with Stewart in mind, leaning into all the “moody and aloof” qualities people usually critique in the actor....
...Earlier in December, Moody’s downgraded the outlook on Hong Kong’s sovereign credit rating to negative, a day after a similar downgrade for China’s outlook....
...While New York Fed president John Williams said on Friday that talk of rate cuts as soon as March was “premature”, his note of caution was not enough to halt the rally....
...(Puig is name-checked in the book, alongside other gay writers including Edward Albee, Jean Genet and Tennessee Williams.)...
...As details of the deal emerged this week, Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, said it would not deliver a major blow to the economy....
...On Monday, credit rating agency Moody’s said a shutdown would threaten the country’s triple A credit rating. In Europe, the region-wide Stoxx 600 added 0.4 per cent, as did Germany’s Dax....
...In May, Moody’s cut Kenya’s credit ratings one notch, citing “an increase in government liquidity risks”, adding that “domestic funding conditions have deteriorated considerably”....
...However, rating agency Moody’s Investors Service on Tuesday cut its US banking outlook from stable to negative, citing a “rapidly deteriorating operating environment”....
...But in hushed tones, investors and advisers have been increasingly warning DD’s Antoine Gara, Eric Platt and William Louch of trouble ahead. So how much of a bind is private equity in, really?...
...Moody’s has appointed global banking co-head Ana Arsov to the newly created role of global head of private credit as well as co-head of its financial institutions group....
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