Moody's warns on ratings of four bond insurers
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Credit analysts warned on Monday that if  Moody's Investors Service downgraded some specialist bond  insurers it could have far-reaching impact on financial  markets.
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Moody's Corp. MCO.N, the parent of  credit rating agency Moody's Investors Service, on Wednesday  said quarterly profit rose 43 percent, beating estimates,  helped by a falling U.S. dollar and growing demand for ratings  of junk bonds and bank loans.
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Moody&#39;s Investors Service on Monday said it may cut the debt ratings for Rogers Communications Inc.&#39;s (RCIb.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) and its rated subsidiaries, after the company said it would buy AT&amp;T Wireless Services
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For months, securities backed by risky mortgage loans have been in trouble. Now, the credit-rating agencies that once blessed those securities as safe investments are in trouble, too.
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U.S. regulators plan to probe how the  major credit-rating agencies are paid and their independence  from Wall Street firms that issue bonds amid the crisis in the  mortgage market, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online  edition on Friday.
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Moody&#39;s Investors Service may downgrade ratings on Argosy Gaming and its potential suitor, Penn National Gaming Inc., following the companies&#39; merger announcement Wednesday.
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The shares of U.S. commercial and investment banks fell on Tuesday after two bond rating agencies started to downgrade billions of dollars of securities backed by subprime bonds, triggering concerns that bond sales and lending businesses could slow.
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Europe should soon see its first handful of complex structured debt vehicles backed by different exposures to commercial real estate, but the rating of these deals is proving difficult, Standard &amp; Poor's argues.
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Bonds of Bombardier Inc., the world&#39;s biggest maker of train equipment, declined after Moody&#39;s Investors Service cut its credit rating two levels to junk.
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As the largest bond insurer fights to save its credit ratings, investors head for the door.
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Four big banks face a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission probe of their auction-rate bond operations, a securities filing shows.
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(Corrects to show Moodyâs cut ratings on some collateralized debt obligations, not AMBAC shares in final 2 paragraphs)
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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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Banks may need $143bn to weather the credit crisis if bond insurers lose their top credit ratings, new research shows.
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The pressure on bond insurers  increased on Wednesday after Fitch Ratings downgraded FGIC  Corp's credit rating and Standard & Poor's reviewed the ratings  on $529 billion worth of U.S. mortgage-backed securities and  collateralized debt obligations.
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Problems in the bond markets put pressure on financial firms' shares.
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TORONTO (CP) - The Ontario Securities Commission has told four Canadian mutual fund companies they face &quot;potential enforcement proceedings&quot; for improper trading.