Fitch: Venezuelan Banks Resilient but Facing Growing Challenges
May 12, 2015 18:51 pm UTC| Research & Analysis
Private Venezuelan banks continue to report resilient loan quality ratios and earnings, even when adjusted for inflation. However, growing macroeconomic imbalances, high unseasoned loan growth and government policies that...
Fitch: EMEA Corporates Benefit from Search for Yield as Funding Costs Fall
May 12, 2015 14:32 pm UTC| Research & Analysis
Fitch Ratings says in its latest EMEA Corporate View Dashboard that companies continued to benefit from tightening spreads in early 2015 as the ECBs sovereign bond-buying programme kicked off. Investors ploughed into...
May 12, 2015 06:55 am UTC| Research & Analysis
"The PBOCs cumulative interest and required reserve ratio (RRR) cuts should support residential property demand from both end-buyers and investors over the next few months," says Franco Leung, a Moodys Vice President and...
Moody's: Currency shifts to widen gap between global economies in 2015-16
May 11, 2015 23:13 pm UTC| Research & Analysis
Robust US growth and stabilising financing conditions will help the global economy to grow more strongly next year after muted growth in 2015, with divergence between the major economies likely to widen, says Moodys...
Fitch: UK Faces Fiscal Continuity, Constitutional Uncertainty
May 08, 2015 14:52 pm UTC| Research & Analysis
The UK general election result reduces near-term uncertainty about fiscal policy, but raises long-term constitutional issues, Fitch Ratings says.The narrow Conservative majority gives greater, but not complete, clarity on...
Fitch's Inside Credit: Corporate Bond Liquidity a Major Concern for U.S. Investors
May 08, 2015 13:33 pm UTC| Research & Analysis
This weeks edition of Fitch Ratings Inside Credit newsletter features the findings of the Fitch Ratings/Fixed Income Forum senior U.S. investor survey.In this edition of the survey, U.S. credit investors expressed high...
Fitch: Rise in Property Collateral Makes Real Estate China Banks' Biggest Weakness
May 08, 2015 02:19 am UTC| Research & Analysis
Property exposure is the biggest threat to the viability of Chinas banks because of the banking systems reliance on real estate collateral and the strong linkages between property and other parts of the economy, Fitch...
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