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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 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.
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 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 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 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 April 27, 2005 Nathan Slaughter	Moody's Does It Again Ratings agency tops expectations again but reaffirms cautious guidance.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2009 Morgan Housel	Tell Me Why You Love Moody's Eroding of a competitive advantage, many believe, is what drove Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway to start selling shares of Moody's earlier this year.
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.
BusinessWeek May 28, 2007 David Henry	Buoyant Moody's Moody's has plenty of critics, but it remains massively profitable.
The Motley Fool July 29, 2004 W.D. Crotty	Moody's: Shorthand for Wonderful This financial services firm keeps serving up excellence, most recently in its second-quarter report.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
The Motley Fool July 15, 2011 Adam J. Crawford	I'm Downgrading Moody's Based on a poor ratings history.
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.
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 April 26, 2007 Michael Leibert	Moody's Busy Quarter Moody's stock price has been under pressure this year, as investors have worried about an industry slowdown in mortgage lending. Based on the company's strong first-quarter earnings, those concerns seem at least premature.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2008 Sham Gad	What a Rating Downgrade Really Means Repercussions of bond rating downgrades could wreak havoc on investors.
Wall Street & Technology January 23, 2007 Cory Levine	Moody's Hires Rotella as CIO The New York-based parent company of the credit rating, research and analysis firm Moody's Investors Service hired Perry Rotella as SVP and CIO.
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 October 1, 2007 David Henry	Anatomy Of A Ratings Downgrade How S&P and Moody's miscalculated risk on two top-rated pools of mortgage-backed bonds.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2008 Morgan Housel	This Could Be the End of Bond Insurance Just when it started to look a little better, bond insurers face a fatal blow.
The Motley Fool October 26, 2005 W.D. Crotty	Great Rating for Moody's With another outstanding quarter, Moody's shows why it is a sound investment.
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 February 2, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Perpetual Good Moody's With Moody's currently trading for a 2.3 price to earnings to growth (PEG) ratio, it's easy to understand the stock's hold rating. That kind of pricing deserves some skepticism.
National Real Estate Investor January 28, 2003 Parke Chapman	Moody's: Domestic CMBS issuance to rise this year According to Moody's, U.S commercial mortgage-backed securities issuance this year will reach $67 billion, up from last year's total of $66 billion.
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.
HBS Working Knowledge June 13, 2012 Maggie Starvish	HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants Moody's, Fitch, and Standard & Poor's dominated the credit ratings industry for decades. Could the recession weaken their hold?
The Motley Fool May 12, 2010 Rich Duprey	Moody's Goes Rogue Ratings agency fails to disclose receipt of SEC investigation notice as CEO dumps stock.
BusinessWeek August 6, 2007 Roben Farzad	Let The Blame Begin Everyone played some role in the subprime mess - the Street, lenders, ratings agencies, hedge funds, even homeowners. Where does responsibility lie?
The Motley Fool December 28, 2007 Rich Duprey	Bonding With Buffett Warren Buffett plans to start a bonding agency for local and state governments.
CFO September 1, 2008 Alix Stuart	Over Rated? The subprime fiasco has put corporate credit-ratings on thin ice.
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?
BusinessWeek November 26, 2007 David Henry	A Chain Reaction in Shaky Debt? As exotic CDOs topple, the impact could ripple through debt markets and wallop more funds and banks.
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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 June 2, 2011 Cindy Johnson	A Warning Shot Fired on These Big Banks One of the best-known credit raters, Moody's, is getting more worried about downside risk at big banks and put these under review: Bank of America... Bank of NY Mellon... Citigroup... Wells Fargo...
The Motley Fool April 24, 2008 Morgan Housel	Ambac Obliterated: Is This the End? Reacting to sour news, shares of Ambac plummet to their lowest levels ever since the company went public in 1991.
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National Real Estate Investor August 4, 2003	CMBS Downgrades Beat Out Upgrades in Second Quarter Non-investment grade securities weathered a rough second quarter as Moody's downgraded 16 non-investment grade securities over that span, with no upgrades. However, investment-grade CMBS fared better: Moody's upgraded 34 and downgraded only 33.
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