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The Motley Fool March 12, 2007 David Lee Smith |
Fool on the Street: McGraw-Hill's Getting Its Balance McGraw-Hill is riding a wave of financial-industry expansion and higher-education spending. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2008 David Lee Smith |
McGraw-Hill's on a Slide McGraw-Hill's quarterly results were not a page-turner; all three of its units slid lower. |
The Motley Fool April 27, 2005 Nathan Slaughter |
Moody's Does It Again Ratings agency tops expectations again but reaffirms cautious guidance. |
The Motley Fool July 21, 2006 Alex Dumortier |
Congress' Move Doesn't Rate With Moody's The market might be overreacting to the prospect of more regulation for ratings agencies. Moody's shares have lost almost 30% since the end of the first quarter. Value investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool August 15, 2006 Michael Leibert |
Manic, Mighty Moody's With its wide moat and high returns on capital, Moody's is a good pick for investors. |
The Motley Fool August 7, 2007 Michael Leibert |
Moody's: No Chink in the Armor Despite feeling some heat, Moody's projects solid growth and maintains a strong competitive position. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool November 13, 2006 Emil Lee |
Bend It Like Buffett: Dissecting Moody's All it takes is a single opportunity to buy shares of Moody's at a discount to reap the benefits of a decade worth of superior returns. |
The Motley Fool December 2, 2009 Anand Chokkavelu |
Morningstar Has a AAA-Rated Plan Morningstar announced today that it's getting into the credit rating business. |
CFO September 1, 2003 Tim Reason |
Good to Rate The rating agencies are under review for their failure to downgrade Enron more promptly. The only trouble is, proposed reforms might make things worse. |
The Motley Fool August 11, 2006 Rich Smith |
Senators Snookered by Credit Rating Bill? A Senate bill is unlikely to upset the Moody's - S&P debt-rating duopoly. Here's why and what it means to investors. |
CFO June 1, 2010 Randy Myers |
Ratings Disaster Congress takes another stab at reforming the credit-rating agencies, whose AAA seal of approval helped fuel the subprime crisis. But will any change truly make a difference? |
The Motley Fool October 27, 2004 Nathan Slaughter |
Moody's Moving Forward The credit rating agency thrives as a big fish in a small pond. The stock, which is nearing a 52-week high, will not entice value investors at 28 times this year's earnings, but it is worth the premium price tag. |
The Motley Fool June 4, 2010 Anand Chokkavelu |
Buffett, the Rating Agencies, and a Possible Opportunity Warren Buffett discusses the rating agencies and suggests a company that may be coming to eat their lunch. |
The Motley Fool April 25, 2007 David Lee Smith |
McGraw-Hill Prints a Good One The publisher and information provider displayed strength in all three of its operating segments for the first quarter. Investors, take note. |
CFO September 1, 2008 Alix Stuart |
Over Rated? The subprime fiasco has put corporate credit-ratings on thin ice. |
The Motley Fool February 12, 2007 Michael Leibert |
All-Weather Moody's Moody's delivers revenue and earnings growth in all kinds of economic conditions. Long-term shareholders would likely find an investment in Moody's to be very rewarding. |
The Motley Fool January 26, 2007 Steven Mallas |
McGraw-Hill's Educated Earnings Recent earnings were just OK, but the publisher's long-term prospects seem intact. |
The Motley Fool September 8, 2009 Jennifer Schonberger |
The S&P 500's Biggest Movers on the Week Here are the five biggest S&P 500 pops and five biggest S&P 500 drops of last week. |
CFO January 1, 2003 |
Credit Watch S&P's Leo O'Neill to SEC: We are not the watchdogs. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2007 Lynn Hume |
The Bond Buyer SEC Votes on Rules for Rating Agencies: The proposed rules would implement provisions of the Credit Rating Agency Reform Act of 2006, which Congress approved and President Bush signed to foster increased competition, transparency and accountability among rating agencies. |
The Motley Fool February 8, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Rating Agencies Begin to Come Clean If any group deserves the most blame for shady practices that gave credence to subprime debt, it might be the rating agencies. |
The Motley Fool May 21, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Put the Rating Agencies Out of Their Misery Before It's Too Late Once again, raters have proven themselves stuck on stupid. Congress is waking up. Two amendments in the just-passed Senate financial overhaul bill could euthanize the flawed parts of the rating system. |
The Motley Fool April 18, 2011 Alex Dumortier |
Revealed: 3 Emails That Explain the Crisis Released last week, a new 650-page Senate report on the financial crisis describes multiple aspects of a financial system run amok, including the way in which bankers muscled ratings agencies to turbo-charge their deal-making machine. |
The Motley Fool April 28, 2004 Nathan Slaughter |
Moody's Good Mood The credit-rating agency reports strong first-quarter earnings. |
The Motley Fool October 29, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Still Struggling at Moody's Has Moody's have suffered a wound that won't heal for years to come? |
The Motley Fool May 17, 2010 Jennifer Schonberger |
The S&P 500's Biggest Movers Take a gander at the pops and drops. |
The Motley Fool February 16, 2005 Nathan Slaughter |
Mighty Moody's The ratings agency cruises past fourth quarter estimates and announces a 47% dividend increase. |
The Motley Fool April 26, 2007 |
Magnificent Moody's: Fool by Numbers Moody's released first-quarter 2007 earnings: Income Statement Highlights... Margin Checkup... Balance Sheet Highlights... Revenue by Segment... |
BusinessWeek July 23, 2007 Henry & Goldstein |
The Subprime Mess: "It's Just Going To Get Worse" Many more borrowers could default when ARM rates rise. |
The Motley Fool April 13, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
Credit Quality Is Worst in 25 Years -- Hoorah! The ratio of companies getting downgraded to those being upgraded in the first quarter reached a high mark not seen since 1983. But far from despairing, this announcement contains a hint of optimism. Here's why. |
The Motley Fool October 23, 2006 Anders Bylund |
McGraw-Hill Busts Out the Chainsaw The textbook publisher recently reported earnings, and the market liked what it saw. |
CFO May 1, 2009 Sarah Johnson |
Trouble for the Other Big Three? The SEC explores whether new competition for the big credit-rating agencies could make them raise their games. |
The Motley Fool March 12, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
GE's Downgrade Is a Blessing in Disguise Standard & Poor's downgrades General Electric's long-term debt rating by a single notch, from AAA to AA+, with a "stable" outlook. Was it the right decision? |
The Motley Fool April 18, 2011 Matt Koppenheffer |
Standard & Poor's Lowers the Boom on the U.S. Standard & Poor's put a "negative" outlook on the U.S.'s credit rating. What does that mean for your portfolio? |
U.S. Banker July 2008 Michael Sisk |
A `Radical' Answer to Credit-Ratings Conflict The government should remove itself completely from the credit-rating business, stop deciding which company can and can't rate a bond, and stop making institutions pay attention to rating agencies whose work may be shoddy - and, it often turns out, is. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2006 Lynn Hume |
Bond Buyer The U.S. House of Representatives easily passed legislation designed to foster competition, transparency and accountability in the credit rating industry. |
The Motley Fool August 1, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Moody's in a Funk? The debt rater failed to beat earnings estimates last quarter. It was the first time this had happened since way back in first-quarter 2000, and when investors look to Moody's second-quarter 2006 earnings report tomorrow morning, they'll be hoping it was the last. |
BusinessWeek May 28, 2007 David Henry |
Buoyant Moody's Moody's has plenty of critics, but it remains massively profitable. |
The Motley Fool June 2, 2009 Morgan Housel |
I'd Short This Stock David Einhorn, prominent hedge fund manger known for successfully shorting Lehman Brothers, recently disclosed that his firm, Greenlight Capital, is shorting Moody's. |
The Motley Fool March 9, 2005 Tom Taulli |
McGraw-Hill Gains Power At age 73, it was time for J.D. Power III to find an exit. In this case, the buyer of the marketing information firm was another renowned family business, McGraw-Hill. But the deal-making means a short-term negative for the publisher. |
The Motley Fool February 8, 2008 Morgan Housel |
The Moody's Blues Debt-ratings agency Moody's watches its earnings and reputation erode, as the once-lucrative business of rating batches of collateralized debt obligations has begun to sour. |
Finance & Development December 2010 Arezki et al. |
Bad News Spreads When government debt is downgraded, the ill effects can be felt across countries and financial markets. |
The Motley Fool March 30, 2007 |
Fast Pitch: Moody's Moody's is among the most-respected sources for credit ratings, research, and risk analysis. Though the fundamentals are good, the stock currently looks overpriced, and the chance of beating the market seems dim. |
BusinessWeek December 17, 2009 |
John W. Rodgers Jr.: My Favorite Indicator The CEO of Ariel Investments looks for early signs of debt problems as an indicator of a bad market. |
The Motley Fool July 29, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Still the Most Powerful Companies in the World The unmatched power of the rating agencies Moody's and Standard & Poor's. |
The Motley Fool January 12, 2012 Rebecca Lipman |
Avoiding "Group Think": Barclays and UBS Analysts Are Bullish for These 10 Stocks Looking for ideas on how to find stocks poised to outperform? One source is the sell-side ratings from various banks and firms, usually phrased positively as "buy" or "overweight." |
The Motley Fool April 20, 2011 Alex Dumortier |
Roundtable: Will the U.S. Lose Its AAA Rating? Three analysts weigh in. |
Investment Advisor April 2007 Robert F. Keane |
Morningstar--S&P Deal Morningstar and Standard and Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, announced the completion of a deal for Morningstar to acquire Standard and Poor's mutual fund data business for $55 million in cash. |
The Motley Fool February 6, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
GE Braces for a Downgrade General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt now says that he's prepared to run the company as a double-A. Did he paint himself into a corner? |
Investment Advisor November 2007 Melanie Waddell |
On the Agenda: Insurance and Ratings Congress looks at insurance reform and the subprime mess. |