The bond-rating agency Moody's made itself famous for giving subprime mortgage backed securities triple-A ratings at the peak of the housing bubble. Well, Moody's is back. They announced plans to change the way they treat pension obligations in assessing state and local government debt.

While some hope of a miracle occurring in the coming months remains, so does the question of whether the new Slovenian government is willing to invest enough political capital to push through the necessary reforms before the capital markets decide to lock Slovenia out once again.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ratings agencies Standard & Poor's, Moody's and investment bank Morgan Stanley have settled two lawsuits dating back to the financia...

LONDON, March 1 (Reuters) - The risk that Britain is entering its third recession in four years grew on Friday with figures showing that manufacturing...

LONDON — Credit ratings agency Moody's Investors Service downgraded Britain's government bond rating one notch from the top AAA to AA1 Friday, s...

Animosity towards ratings agencies has resulted in the widespread distrust of their predictive capacities on the part of many in the world of finance. At best, many investors now see the ratings given by S&P et al. as meaningless posturing, and at worst as complete untruths.

By Aruna Viswanatha and Luciana Lopez (Reuters) - The Justice Department and multiple states are discussing also suing Moody's Corp for defrauding...

Only then, once it has made sincere amends to the country for its deplorable actions, can it lift itself up from the muck it sank into, and regain its honor.

Warren Buffett claims to follow his advice to "never invest in a business you cannot understand." But a few years ago, the billionaire investor ad...

For nearly four years, credit rating agencies like Standard & Poor's have tried to use the First Amendment as a shield against angry investors who hav...

The credit-rating agencies are like a miserable long-term relationship: You desperately want to end it, but can't imagine life without it.

Apparently the credit rating agencies can't decide which is more dangerous to the U.S. economy -- cutting the U.S. budget deficit too quickly, or not having a plan to cut it at all.

Moody's, like the rest of Wall Street, very much wants the Bush tax breaks for the rich extended. If we do jump off the so-called "fiscal cliff," then the Bush tax breaks end. So Moody's is playing the downgrade card, fear-mongering, to try to prevent that.

SYDNEY, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service has changed its outlook on the Aaa rating of the European Union to negative, wa...

Defaults on municipal bonds for decades have been far higher than reported by rating agencies, bringing into question the true risk of a common inves...

By Madeline Chambers BERLIN, July 24 (Reuters) - The prospect of Europe's biggest economy losing its cherished AAA credit status has u...

In an environment where banks must focus on profitability to bolster core equity, there is a clear incentive to address the collateral optimization challenge.