S&P changes MBIA, Ambac outlook to negative
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Standard & Poor's on Wednesday slashed its outlook for bond insurers Ambac Financial Group, MBIA Insurance Corp and XL Capital Assurance, indicating their triple-A credit ratings were at heightened risk of being cut in the next two years due to deteriorating mortgage debt.
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Investment bank HSBC has revised  downward its forecast for 2007 economic growth and cautioned  that the risk of an outright recession is growing as a retreat  in housing threatens household balance sheets.
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Dow and S&P index futures turned negative on Thursday as 10-year benchmark note yields rose, offsetting earlier optimism about a $20 billion buyout of Hilton Hotels Corp.
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A bearish note from Morgan Stanley (AMEX:MWD) helped send the FTSE 100 tumbling 67 points, or 1 per cent, to 6555.4 in late morning trade, as investors intensified their caution ahead of Thursday&#39;s interest rate decision.
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Stocks briefly turned negative on Friday, erasing earlier gains, as credit worries weighed on financial stocks.
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Standard & Poor's on Thursday cut its  "AAA" ratings on FGIC Corp's bond insurance arm, and placed its  top ratings on the bond insurance arm of MBIA Inc  on  review for downgrade.
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By Kovsky, Eddie  Financial analysis Web site StreetInsider is reporting that two brokerage firms have downgraded their rating of Micron Technology stock.
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Standard &amp; Poor&#39;s on Tuesday changed its outlook on IAC/InterActiveCorp.(IACI.O: Quote, Profile, Research) to stable from positive, citing IAC&#39;s plans to spin off its online travel service Expedia.
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Standard & Poorâs cut the rating of one troubled bond insurer on Wednesday and assigned a negative outlook to four other companies that guarantee debts linked to home loans.
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Slashed earnings estimate pulls down shares.
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The Stocks in the News on the DataBank page last Sunday contained incorrect labels for the stocksâ estimated price-to-earnings ratios. They were for 2008, not 2007.
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LONDON: Marks &amp; Spencer has announced a top-level shake-up, as it revealed a deterioration in trading conditions and posted a first-half profit in line with expectations.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 18 -- Ambac Financial Group, the nation's second largest insurer of bonds, lost its precious AAA rating from Fitch Ratings on Friday over concerns that the company no longer had enough capital to guarantee billions of dollars in debt now imperiled by the subprime mortgage crisis.
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Moody&#39;s Investors Service on Friday revised its outlook on FedEx Corp. (FDX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) to stable from negative, citing expected improvements in FedEx&#39;s profits
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Standard &amp; Poor&#39;s Ratings Services on Thursday revised its credit ratings outlook on Poland to stable from negative supported by strength in export growth and an improvement in the country&#39;s fiscal performance.
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MBIA Inc , the world's largest bond insurer, slashed its common stock dividend 62 percent on Wednesday as part of a plan to strengthen capital and preserve the "triple-A" credit ratings it depends on to operate normally.
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Ambac Financial Group Inc  on Tuesday reported a quarterly loss of $3.3 billion after recording massive credit derivative write-downs but its shares surged after the bond insurer said it could be close to raising much-needed new capital.